By equating social media use with narcissism, the Kardashian Index joke ignores wide disparity in research ecosystem.

Last week there was an eruption of discussion, debate and acerbic wit surrounding a published article by biologist Neil Hall proposing the use of a new metric for academics to evaluate their performance. Named after celebrity Kim Kardashian, the K-index analyses the popularity of scientists on Twitter against the citation impact of their publications in peer-reviewed journals, suggesting academics should be wary of too […]