Research metrics help guide

Article Field Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)

Article Field Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) indicates how the number of citations received by an article compares to the average or expected number of citations received by other similar publications. Similar publications are determined by year, type, and discipline. It is used to benchmark article impact. For more information, see Elsevier's Research Metrics Guidebook (p. 46)

Applications

• Funding applications, Academic promotion, Job applications

Considerations

• If demonstrating the magnitude of citations is important, field weighted citation impacts may not be appropriate

Common tools

• Scopus

  1. Access Scopus

  2. Change the Search option to Documents, and type or copy/paste the title of the article, conference paper, or book/chapter between double quotation marks ("...").

  3. Then click Search.

  4. Click the title of the document and view the FWCI in the Metrics box in the right hand column

  5. Click View all Metrics to access further article level metrics such as citations, and PlumX Metrics.

Please be aware that the Article FWCI from Scopus only takes into consideration documents that are indexed in the Scopus database.