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Happiness, social networks, and health

Overview of attention for article published in British Medical Journal, December 2008
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (72nd percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
twitter
1 X user
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
50 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
connotea
1 Connotea
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Article details
Title
Happiness, social networks, and health
Published in
British Medical Journal, December 2008
DOI 10.1136/bmj.a2781
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 6%
Canada 1 2%
Belgium 1 2%
Unknown 45 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 20%
Researcher 9 18%
Student > Master 8 16%
Professor 6 12%
Other 5 10%
Other 10 20%
Unknown 2 4%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 30%
Social Sciences 8 16%
Psychology 7 14%
Computer Science 4 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 6%
Other 7 14%
Unknown 6 12%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 June 2020.
All research outputs
#3,462,718
of 34,427,821 outputs
Outputs from British Medical Journal
#24,626
of 75,592 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#16,093
of 245,052 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Medical Journal
#48
of 174 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,427,821 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 75,592 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 40.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 67% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 245,052 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 174 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% of its contemporaries.