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The happiness paradox: your friends are happier than you

Overview of attention for article published in EPJ Data Science, May 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#9 of 460)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
13 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
twitter
144 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
1 Redditor

Citations

dimensions_citation
54 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
131 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
Title
The happiness paradox: your friends are happier than you
Published in
EPJ Data Science, May 2017
DOI 10.1140/epjds/s13688-017-0100-1
Authors

Johan Bollen, Bruno Gonçalves, Ingrid van de Leemput, Guangchen Ruan

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 131 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 2 2%
Portugal 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Luxembourg 1 <1%
Unknown 126 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 16%
Researcher 21 16%
Student > Master 16 12%
Student > Postgraduate 8 6%
Other 8 6%
Other 23 18%
Unknown 34 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 22 17%
Psychology 20 15%
Social Sciences 9 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 3%
Other 29 22%
Unknown 42 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 196. 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 22 October 2022.
All research outputs
#206,432
of 25,791,495 outputs
Outputs from EPJ Data Science
#9
of 460 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,276
of 328,097 outputs
Outputs of similar age from EPJ Data Science
#1
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,791,495 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 460 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 39.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 11 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% of its contemporaries.