title: The Kardashian index: a measure of discrepant social media profile for scientists.
abstract: In the era of social media there are now many different ways that a scientist can build their public profile; the publication of high-quality scientific papers being just one. While social media is a valuable tool for outreach and the sharing of ideas, there is a danger that this form of communication is gaining too high a value and that we are losing sight of key metrics of scientific value, such as citation indices. To help quantify this, I propose the 'Kardashian Index', a measure of discrepancy between a scientist's social media profile and publication record based on the direct comparison of numbers of citations and Twitter followers.
authors.forename: Neil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hall
mesh_terms: D001634:Bibliographies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D059232:Laboratory Personnel; D008297:Male; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D063507:Sexism; D061108:Social Media