The Kardashian index of cardiologists: Do more social media followers mean more citations or merely celebrity status in academia?

Authors

Talal Almas, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland
Maheera Farooqi, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan
Vikneswaran Raj Nagarajan, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland
Muhammad Ali Niaz, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland
Absam Akbar, Aga Khan University
Yohan Porus Irani, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland
Jung Hur, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland
Josef Finsterer, Messerli Institute, Postfach, Vienna, Austria

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Article

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Publication (Name of Journal)

Annals of Medicine and Surgery

Recommended Citation

Almas, T., Farooqi, M., Nagarajan, V. R., Niaz, M. A., Akbar, A., Irani, Y. P., Hur, J., Finsterer, J. (2021). The Kardashian index of cardiologists: Do more social media followers mean more citations or merely celebrity status in academia?. Annals of Medicine and Surgery, 71, 102981.
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