The Scientific Influence Passivity Score (SIP)

Abstract

Bibliometrics as the application of mathematical and statistical methods to books and other media of communication research [1] has already been established since a couple of years as a basis for funding decisions, and as an accepted instrument for evaluation of persons and institutions or recognizing trends and tendencies in science and technology. A wide range of methods and indicators are used to achieve this goal. In this paper, we present a new bibliometric indicator the SIP Score which is an adoption of the Influence Passivity Score (invented for the microblogging platform Twitter). We explain the adoption process, show the first results on a special created bibliographical dataset and discuss -index and its derivate).