The Kardashian Index of Cardiologists

Khan, Muhammad Shahzeb; Shahadat, Amna; Khan, Safi U.; Ahmed, Saba; Doukky, Rami; Michos, Erin D.; Kalra, Ankur

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.11.068

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“…As teachers, our participants reflected upon how they seek to produce high-quality content and to educate others to appraise content in the social media space. Finally, as either interactive investigators or translational teachers, they remarked on their sense of responsibility around the need to be accurate and not fall into the trap of becoming a ‘celebrity’ or ‘science Kardashian’ [ 16 – 18 ]. Due to their professional identity, our participants found it imperative to consider content accuracy and saw themselves as accountable for ensuring the validity and veracity of their content.…”

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Good practices in harnessing social media for scholarly discourse, knowledge translation, and education

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Lee

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Perspect Med Educ

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Introduction There still remains a gap between those who conduct science and those who engage in educating others about health sciences through various forms of social media. Few empirical studies have sought to define useful practices for engaging in social media for academic use in the health professions. Given the increasing importance of these platforms, we sought to define good practices and potential pitfalls with help of those respected for their work in this new field. Methods We conducted a qualitative study, guided by constructivist grounded theory principles, of 17 Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (

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Good practices in harnessing social media for scholarly discourse, knowledge translation, and education

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“…Kardiashian-Index; [15]). Bei Twitter-aktiven Kardiologen korreliert interessanterweise im Allgemeinen die Anzahl der Publikationen relativ gut mit der Anzahl der Twitter-Follower und "Kardiologen-Kardashians" gibt es nur selten [16].…”

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Twitter in der Kardiologie

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2020

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ZusammenfassungBesonders Twitter hat in der kardiologischen Community an Popularität und Einfluss gewonnen. Twitter ist ein sinnvolles und dynamisches Medium zur Kommunikation, Vernetzung und Weiterbildung für forschende, lehrende und klinisch tätige Kardiologinnen und Kardiologen. Dieser Artikel soll am Beispiel von Twitter Kardiologen eine praktische Handlungsanleitung bieten, um dieses soziale Netzwerk in Zukunft erfolgreich und professionell nutzen zu können, und verdeutlichen, wie man sich über aktuelle Technologien und neue Studienergebnisse auf dem Laufenden halten kann.

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“…Earlier studies have alluded to a lower proportion of women physicians/scientists on Twitter. 7 , 13 More recently, in the study by Khan et al., three out of 17 female cardiologists (total of 238 studied) had inflated Twitter influence represented by the k-index. 13 Whether female INRs are less likely than men to self-promote 13 or whether it is merely a factor of decreased representation of women in interventional neuroradiology, 14 or a combination of both, is unknown.…”

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