The "Kim Kardashian" Index. Quantifying over-inflated social network profiles User econstreams, in the Social Science subreddit, 11 Aug 2014
TIL that "The Kardashian Index" was developed to correlate a scientist's popularity on Twitter with their actual impact in peer-reviewed scientific journals. A high "K-value" means they may be over-rated and riding on Twitter rather than actual discoveries. User witty_reference, in the Today I Learned (TIL) subreddit, 31 Jul 2014
The Kardashian index: a measure of discrepant social media profile for scientists User electronics-engineer, in the FoodForThought: Intellectual Nourishment subreddit, 31 Jul 2014
The Kardashian index: a measure of discrepant social media profile for scientists. User godsenfrik, in the Reddit Science subreddit, 30 Jul 2014