Researcher ranking is a method of sorting researchers nationally or globally by either citations or field-weighted citation impact. This method can be limited to a specific date range or subject area. In SciVal, the subject area can be further refined into topic clusters, or specific topics.
Researcher metrics become more salient as the number of publications increases. For early-career researchers, publication metrics may be more appropriate in demonstrating impact of your research.
| "My field-weighted citation impact for the last 4 years is 6.84, which places me in the top 20 researchers in Australia within the Field of Research for Public Health." (source: SciVal, 22 December 2023) |
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FWCI is data sourced from SciVal or Scopus. FWCI is an author metric that compares the total citations actually received by a researcher's publications to the average number of citations received by all other similar publications from the same research field.
The global mean of the FWCI is 1.0, so a FWCI of 1.50 means 50% more cited than the world average; whereas, an FWCI of 0.75 means 25% less cited than the world average.
| "My field-weighted citation impact for the last 5 years is 1.34, which indicates that my papers have been cited 34% above the world average." (source: SciVal, 22 December 2023) |
For example, from the heading Cited, select Field-weighted citation impact
from Collaboration, select Geographical Collaboration, then International collaborators (as a percentage)
and from Cited, select Publications in Journal Quartiles (as well as percentage and journal ranking metric).
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Note: The FWCI can be viewed in the Overview module, but the Benchmarking module allows you to select a longer date range.
CNCI is data sourced from InCites of Web of Science. CNCI benchmarks the impact of an article or the impact of a researcher in a particular subject area. The CNCI of a document is calculated by dividing the number of citations by the expected citation rate for documents of the same type, year of publication and subject area. The CNCI for a set of documents, such as the work of an author or a group of authors, uses the average of all the CNCI values for documents in the set.
CNCI can also apply across several subject areas although it is a more meaningful metric if it is only for a single subject area.
A CNCI of 1 would be on par with the average citations for the subject area; more than 1 would be above average, and anything below 1 would be less than average.
| “My category-normalised citation impact for the last five years at my current institution is 1.74, which is 74% higher than the global average in my categories of research." (source: InCites, 22 December 2023) |
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A Topic is a dynamic collection of documents that are multidisciplinary with a common focused interest. Topic clusters are formed by aggregating Topics with similar research interest together to form a broader, higher-level area of research.
From within a chosen subject area, they can showcase your contribution to a specific research topic, as well as provide a broader understanding of the research being done by a country or institution.
| "My field-weighted citation impact for the last 3 years is 2.09 for the Topic cluster of Additives; Manufacture; Printing, which is 109% higher than the global average in my categories of research." (source: SciVal, 22 December 2023) |
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