calculate_kardashian_index: Calculates a researcher's Kardashian Index

In graemetlloyd/Claddis: Measuring Morphological Diversity and Evolutionary Tempo

Calculates a researcher's Kardashian Index

Description

Given counts of a researcher's Twitter followers and citations, returns their Kardashian Index.

Usage

calculate_kardashian_index(twitter_followers, total_citations)

Arguments

twitter_followers	The number of twitter followers the researcher has.
total_citations	The total number of citations across the researcher's publications (e.g., as garnered from a Google Scholar profile).

Details

This function implements the Kardashian Index of Hall (2014) and interested readers should consult that paper for more background.

Value

A scalar representing the ratio of expected Twitter followers (based on number of citations) to actual Twitter followers. Values greater than one indicate more Twitter followers than expected, those below one, fewer. According to Hall (2014), values above 5 are "Science Kardashians".

Author(s)

Graeme T. Lloyd [e-mail]

References

Hall, N., 2014. The Kardashian index: a measure of discrepant social media profile for scientists. Genome Biology, 15, 424.

Examples

# Calculate the Kardashian Index of Sam Giles (@GilesPalaeoLab)
# as of 10/5/21:
calculate_kardashian_index(
  twitter_followers = 6534,
  total_citations = 550
)

# Calculate the Kardashian Index of Christopher Jackson (@seis_matters)
# as of 10/5/21:
calculate_kardashian_index(
  twitter_followers = 26000,
  total_citations = 6265
)

# Calculate the Kardashian Index of Graeme T. Lloyd (@GraemeTLloyd)
# as of 10/5/21:
calculate_kardashian_index(
  twitter_followers = 2133,
  total_citations = 2780
)

# Calculate the Kardashian Index of Katie Mack (@AstroKatie)
# as of 10/5/21:
calculate_kardashian_index(
  twitter_followers = 394900,
  total_citations = 1131
)

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