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. 2021 Nov 2:71:102981.
doi: 10.1016/j.amsu.2021.102981. eCollection 2021 Nov.

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

Talal Almas  1 , Maheera Farooqi  2 , Vikneswaran Raj Nagarajan  1 , Muhammad Ali Niaz  1 , Absam Akbar  3 , Yohan Porus Irani  1 , Jung Hur  1 , Josef Finsterer  4
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The Kardashian index of cardiologists: Do more social media followers mean more citations or merely celebrity status in academia?

Talal Almas et al. Ann Med Surg (Lond). .
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