Knowing of my interest in professional use of social media, especially Twitter, my friend and mentor, Dr Pratik Mukherjee, shared with me an interesting column from the Science magazine. I found it an interesting easy read. It can be thought provoking regardless of how you feel about social media use.
Jua You, a news intern at Science, has published a column on September 17th issue of Science magazine. She has looked at the Kardashian Index (K-index) for the “top 50 science stars of Twitter”. The controversial K-index was recently proposed by Genomicist Neil Hall, and is the ratio of the scientist’s actual follower number to the follower number “warranted” by the citation count. Although the method used to list the “top 50 scientists” and to collect data is subject to criticism, the concept discussed remains interesting and worth thinking about. Please see the full text of the article here and feel free to leave comments.
