Kardashian Index
MEASURE OF THE DISCREPANCY BETWEEN A SCIENTIST'S SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILE AND PUBLICATION RECORD
Kardashian index
The Kardashian Index (K-Index), named after Kim Kardashian, is a satirical measure of the discrepancy between a scientist's social media profile and publication record. Proposed by Neil Hall in 2014, the measure compares the number of followers a research scientist has on Twitter to the number of citations they have for their peer-reviewed work.