A critique of eight country studies using the Global Flourishing Study

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https://doi.org/10.5502/ijw.v15i3.6797

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I examine nine recent papers published in the International Journal of Wellbeing that use the Global Flourishing Study of 2022-2024 for Argentina, Hong Kong, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey and the USA plus a summary paper. No econometric analysis is undertaken, and the various papers simply report means. I show that the findings in these papers have previously been published in 91 other papers, making 100 in all, including a total of 91 in peer reviewed journals since 2024, by the same group of authors. Of the 100 published papers only 15 are cited in these nine papers. This is not in keeping with normal publishing standards and practices.

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2026-08-15

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Vol. 15 No. 3 (2025): Special "Living" Issue: A Country-Specific All-Outcome Approach to the Global Flourishing Study

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Invited Articles

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