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Life Satisfaction and the Pursuit of Happiness on Twitter

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, March 2016
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
21 news outlets
blogs
5 blogs
twitter
55 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages

Readers on

mendeley
193 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Life Satisfaction and the Pursuit of Happiness on Twitter
Published in
PLOS ONE, March 2016
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0150881
Pubmed ID
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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 1%
Luxembourg 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 188 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 14%
Student > Bachelor 23 12%
Student > Master 23 12%
Researcher 20 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 6%
Other 28 15%
Unknown 60 31%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 37 19%
Social Sciences 20 10%
Computer Science 16 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 10 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 4%
Other 33 17%
Unknown 69 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 223. 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 11 March 2018.
All research outputs
#217,393
of 34,350,471 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#3,056
of 224,489 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,036
of 337,867 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#86
of 5,449 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,350,471 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 224,489 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 17.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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