| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | New Well-being Measures: Short Scales to Assess Flourishing and Positive and Negative Feelings | Social Indicators Research | 2010 | 2,687 |
| 2 | Assessing subjective well-being: Progress and opportunities | Social Indicators Research | 1994 | 1,630 |
| 3 | (null) | Social Indicators Research | 2002 | 1,132 |
| 4 | Is happiness relative? | Social Indicators Research | 1991 | 1,036 |
| 5 | Flourishing Across Europe: Application of a New Conceptual Framework for Defining Well-Being | Social Indicators Research | 2013 | 1,021 |
| 6 | Avowed happiness as an overall assessment of the quality of life | Social Indicators Research | 1978 | 932 |
| 7 | The relationship between income and subjective well-being: Relative or absolute? | Social Indicators Research | 1993 | 844 |
| 8 | Multiple discrepancies theory (MDT) | Social Indicators Research | 1985 | 835 |
| 9 | Theory and Validity of Life Satisfaction Scales | Social Indicators Research | 2013 | 821 |
| 10 | Developing a National Index of Subjective Wellbeing: The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index | Social Indicators Research | 2003 | 757 |
| 11 | The domains of life satisfaction: An attempt to order chaos | Social Indicators Research | 1996 | 740 |
| 12 | Are Psychological and Ecological Well-being Compatible? The Role of Values, Mindfulness, and Lifestyle | Social Indicators Research | 2005 | 699 |
| 13 | The Family Affluence Scale as a Measure of National Wealth: Validation of an Adolescent Self-Report Measure | Social Indicators Research | 2006 | 679 |
| 14 | Measuring Capacities for Community Resilience | Social Indicators Research | 2010 | 589 |
| 15 | Developments in satisfaction-research | Social Indicators Research | 1996 | 530 |
| 16 | A review of research on the happiness measures: A sixty second index of happiness and mental health | Social Indicators Research | 1988 | 521 |
| 17 | An Introduction to ‘Benefit of the Doubt’ Composite Indicators | Social Indicators Research | 2007 | 508 |
| 18 | On the Methodological Framework of Composite Indices: A Review of the Issues of Weighting, Aggregation, and Robustness | Social Indicators Research | 2019 | 497 |
| 19 | The Eudaimonic and Hedonic Components of Happiness: Qualitative and Quantitative Findings | Social Indicators Research | 2011 | 487 |
| 20 | A New Measure of Quality of Work Life (QWL) Based on Need Satisfaction and Spillover Theories | Social Indicators Research | 2001 | 486 |
| 21 | Global Judgments of Subjective Well-Being: Situational Variability and Long-Term Stability | Social Indicators Research | 2004 | 479 |
| 22 | Toward an Integration of Subjective Well-Being and Psychopathology | Social Indicators Research | 2001 | 465 |
| 23 | Quality of Life Indexes for National Policy: Review and Agenda for Research | Social Indicators Research | 2001 | 464 |
| 24 | Objective and Subjective Quality of Life: an Interactive Model | Social Indicators Research | 2000 | 459 |
| 25 | Preliminary Validation of the Brief Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (BMSLSS) | Social Indicators Research | 2003 | 451 |
| 26 | Reconsidering Social Cohesion: Developing a Definition and Analytical Framework for Empirical Research | Social Indicators Research | 2006 | 439 |
| 27 | Happy life-expectancy | Social Indicators Research | 1996 | 437 |
| 28 | Child Well-being: A Systematic Review of the Literature | Social Indicators Research | 2003 | 428 |
| 29 | The Relationship Between Social Support and Subjective Well-Being Across Age | Social Indicators Research | 2014 | 421 |
| 30 | How Social Relations and Structures can Produce Happiness and Unhappiness: An International Comparative Analysis | Social Indicators Research | 2006 | 420 |
| 31 | On the trail of the gold standard for subjective well-being | Social Indicators Research | 1995 | 412 |
| 32 | An Overview and Evaluation of Composite Indices of Development | Social Indicators Research | 2002 | 408 |
| 33 | The affective and cognitive context of self-reported measures of subjective well-being | Social Indicators Research | 1993 | 396 |
| 34 | Understanding and Using Mediators and Moderators | Social Indicators Research | 2008 | 379 |
| 35 | An Index of Child Well-being in the European Union | Social Indicators Research | 2007 | 368 |
| 36 | Dimensions of mental health: Life satisfaction, positive affect, anxiety and depression | Social Indicators Research | 1993 | 363 |
| 37 | National differences in reported subjective well-being: Why do they occur? | Social Indicators Research | 1995 | 352 |
| 38 | Research on Assessment of Life Satisfaction of Children and Adolescents | Social Indicators Research | 2004 | 352 |
| 39 | Wealth and Happiness Revisited – Growing National Income Does Go with Greater Happiness | Social Indicators Research | 2003 | 344 |
| 40 | Where are the Children? Children’s Role in Measuring and Monitoring Their Well-Being | Social Indicators Research | 2005 | 337 |
| 41 | The Second Approximation to an International Standard for Life Satisfaction | Social Indicators Research | 1998 | 333 |
| 42 | The cross-national pattern of happiness: Test of predictions implied in three theories of happiness | Social Indicators Research | 1995 | 330 |
| 43 | Quality of Life and Leisure Activities: How do Leisure Activities Contribute to Subjective Well-Being? | Social Indicators Research | 2011 | 326 |
| 44 | The Qualityity-of-Life (QOL) Research Movement: Past, Present, and Future | Social Indicators Research | 2006 | 324 |
| 45 | Estimating the Reliability of Single-Item Life Satisfaction Measures: Results from Four National Panel Studies | Social Indicators Research | 2012 | 320 |
| 46 | Composite Indicators between Analysis and Advocacy | Social Indicators Research | 2007 | 314 |
| 47 | Happiness and Satisfaction with Work Commute | Social Indicators Research | 2013 | 314 |
| 48 | An Investigation into the Cross-Cultural Equivalence of the Personal Wellbeing Index | Social Indicators Research | 2005 | 313 |
| 49 | Measuring Social Isolation in Older Adults: Development and Initial Validation of the Friendship Scale | Social Indicators Research | 2006 | 308 |
| 50 | An evaluation of subjective well-being measures | Social Indicators Research | 1985 | 305 |
