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Kardashian Index
Hello. A little while ago you closed an AfD at Misplaced Pages:Articles_for_deletion/Kardashian_Index with a decision to delete. You said "The examination and comments made by Bondegezou most convinced me to close as delete." who had argued that it was just a one-off joke article, never to be calculated at all, and was briefly mentioned in new sources before interest died. But I've just noticed at sciencemag.org that was published today a new article entitled "Twitter's science stars, the sequel". It goes on to say:
And now we’re doubling down on our recent list of Twitter’s 50 most popular researchers with a revision that names 100 of the most followed scientists on the social media platform. (See below for that list, or download our updated spreadsheet, which marks the additions in red.)
The first list—in case you missed it last month—was part of a story examining the use of Twitter by scientists, prompted by the furor that had erupted over the so-called Kardashian Index (K-index). This metric, whose inventor says he meant it in fun, compared a researcher’s number of Twitter followers with the number of citations to his or her academic papers.
It goes on to list the top 100 K-Index scientists, complete with photos and details. So there seems to be momentum continuing over the Kardashian Index, which was originally published in Genome Biology on 30 July 2014. In light of the continuing interest, do think that perhaps the AfD should be restarted? --Mrjulesd (talk) 17:57, 6 October 2014 (UTC)