A British geneticist Neil Hall (2014) compared certain scientists Twitter followers with their
number of article citations on Web of Science. He developed an index and named Kardashian
index (K-Index). K-index is similar to h-index. However, instead of author productivity, it
measures the discrepancy between a scientist’s social media profile and publication record. The
number of a scientist citation in ISI Web of Science is used to measure the k-index. Conversely,
these numbers are not freely available. Therefore, I offered a modified K-index based on Google
Scholar citations which is freely accessible through http://scholar.google.com/ Ale Ebrahim et
al. (2014) developed an equation for equality between Google Scholar citations and ISI Web of
Science citations (Equation 1).
Nader
Ale Ebrahim holds a PhD degree in Technology Management from the Department of
Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of
Malaya. He holds a Master of Science in the Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Tehran with distinguished honors. He also has over 19 years of
experience in the establishment of the R&D departments in different
companies, heading projects as the project director and project coordinator and
implementing knowledge based system in the R&D department. His current
research interest focuses on E-skills, Research Tools, Bibliometrics and
managing virtual NPD teams in SMEs’ R&D centers. His papers/articles have
published and presented in the several journals and conferences.
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University of Malaya
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Jobs
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