The study analyzes “happiness studies” as an emerging field of inquiry throughout various scientific disciplines and research areas. Utilizing four operationalized search terms in the Web of Science; “happiness”, “subjective well-being”, “life satisfaction” and “positive affect”, a dataset was created for empirical citation analysis. Combined with qualitative interpretations of the publications, the results show how happiness studies have developed over time, in what journals the citing papers have been published, and which authors and researchers are the most productive within this set. The conclusion is that “happiness studies” have emerged in many different disciplinary contexts and progressively been integrated and standardized. Moreove...