| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Review of the Satisfaction With Life Scale | Social Indicators Research Series | 2009 | 698 |
| 2 | New Measures of Well-Being | Social Indicators Research Series | 2009 | 626 |
| 3 | Subjective Well-Being | Social Indicators Research Series | 2009 | 461 |
| 4 | The Science of Well-Being | Social Indicators Research Series | 2009 | 358 |
| 5 | Norms for Experiencing Emotions in Different Cultures: Inter- and Intranational Differences | Social Indicators Research Series | 2009 | 279 |
| 6 | The Evolving Concept of Subjective Well-Being: The Multifaceted Nature of Happiness | Social Indicators Research Series | 2009 | 270 |
| 7 | Assessing Well-Being | Social Indicators Research Series | 2009 | 250 |
| 8 | Culture and Subjective Well-Being | Social Indicators Research Series | 2009 | 244 |
| 9 | Personality and Subjective Well-Being | Social Indicators Research Series | 2009 | 212 |
| 10 | Cross-Cultural Correlates of Life Satisfaction and Self-Esteem | Social Indicators Research Series | 2009 | 186 |
| 11 | Happiness is the Frequency, Not the Intensity, of Positive Versus Negative Affect | Social Indicators Research Series | 2009 | 172 |
| 12 | The Psychology of Quality of Life | Social Indicators Research Series | 2012 | 162 |
| 13 | Temporal Stability and Cross-Situational Consistency of Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive Responses | Social Indicators Research Series | 2009 | 156 |
| 14 | The Psychology of Quality of Life | Social Indicators Research Series | 2002 | 146 |
| 15 | Handbook of Quality-of-Life Research | Social Indicators Research Series | 2001 | 135 |
| 16 | Beyond the Hedonic Treadmill: Revising the Adaptation Theory of Well-Being | Social Indicators Research Series | 2009 | 130 |
| 17 | Experience Sampling: Promises and Pitfalls, Strength and Weaknesses | Social Indicators Research Series | 2009 | 121 |
| 18 | Measuring and Monitoring Children’s Well-Being | Social Indicators Research Series | 2001 | 119 |
| 19 | Theorizing About Family Quality of Life | Social Indicators Research Series | 2010 | 115 |
| 20 | Investigating Quality of Urban Life | Social Indicators Research Series | 2011 | 111 |
| 21 | A Model of Subjective Well-Being Homeostasis: The Role of Personality | Social Indicators Research Series | 2002 | 103 |
| 22 | Improving mental and physical health care through Quality of Life Therapy and assessment | Social Indicators Research Series | 2000 | 94 |
| 23 | Will Money Increase Subjective Well-Being?: A Literature Review and Guide to Needed Research | Social Indicators Research Series | 2009 | 86 |
| 24 | World Database of Happiness | Social Indicators Research Series | 2004 | 81 |
| 25 | Culture and Well-Being | Social Indicators Research Series | 2009 | 80 |
| 26 | Validity and Validation in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences | Social Indicators Research Series | 2014 | 72 |
| 27 | Synthesis of Indicators: The Composite Indicators Approach | Social Indicators Research Series | 2017 | 71 |
| 28 | Essays on the Quality of Life | Social Indicators Research Series | 2003 | 69 |
| 29 | Quality of Life Model Development and Use in the Field of Intellectual Disability | Social Indicators Research Series | 2010 | 64 |
| 30 | Doing Cross-Cultural Research | Social Indicators Research Series | 2008 | 61 |
| 31 | Doing Research in a Cross-Cultural Context: Methodological and Ethical Challenges | Social Indicators Research Series | 2008 | 60 |
| 32 | Factors Predicting the Subjective Well-Being of Nations | Social Indicators Research Series | 2009 | 59 |
| 33 | Research on Assessment of Life Satisfaction of Children and Adolescents | Social Indicators Research Series | 2004 | 59 |
| 34 | Assessing Subjective Well-Being: Progress and Opportunities | Social Indicators Research Series | 2009 | 58 |
| 35 | Stability in components and predictors of subjective well-being (SWB): implications for SWB structure | Social Indicators Research Series | 2000 | 56 |
| 36 | The Well-Being of Nations: Linking Together Trust, Cooperation, and Democracy | Social Indicators Research Series | 2009 | 50 |
| 37 | Language and Communication in Cross-Cultural Qualitative Research | Social Indicators Research Series | 2008 | 49 |
| 38 | Understanding and Investigating Response Processes in Validation Research | Social Indicators Research Series | 2017 | 48 |
| 39 | Standards and Guidelines for Validation Practices: Development and Evaluation of Measurement Instruments | Social Indicators Research Series | 2014 | 47 |
| 40 | An Overview of Quality of Urban Life | Social Indicators Research Series | 2011 | 44 |
| 41 | Happiness of Women and Men in Later Life: Nature, Determinants, and Prospects | Social Indicators Research Series | 2003 | 44 |
| 42 | Developing Indicators and Managing the Complexity | Social Indicators Research Series | 2017 | 43 |
| 43 | Making the Best of a Bad Situation: Satisfaction in the Slums of Calcutta | Social Indicators Research Series | 2009 | 42 |
| 44 | The Psychology of Quality of Life | Social Indicators Research Series | 2021 | 42 |
| 45 | Substitution, Buffers and Subjective Well-Being: A Hierarchical Approach | Social Indicators Research Series | 2002 | 42 |
| 46 | Consequences of Hedonic Well-Being, Life Satisfaction, and Eudaimonia | Social Indicators Research Series | 2012 | 41 |
| 47 | The Concept of Life Satisfaction Across Cultures: Exploring Its Diverse Meaning and Relation to Economic Wealth | Social Indicators Research Series | 2002 | 39 |
| 48 | Researching Refugees: Methodological and Ethical Considerations | Social Indicators Research Series | 2008 | 36 |
| 49 | Social Change, Gender and Violence | Social Indicators Research Series | 2002 | 36 |
| 50 | Wealth of Nations, Individual Income and Life Satisfaction in 42 Countries: A Multilevel Approach | Social Indicators Research Series | 2002 | 36 |
