Demonstrating impact

Field Weighted Citation Impact (Scopus and SciVal)

Field Weighed Citation Impact (FWCI) takes into account the differences in research behaviour by comparing the number of citations a researcher has received to the average number of citations for similar researchers. It compares researchers with the same publication year, type and from the same discipline drawing on citation data from the Scopus database.

A FWCI of 1 would indicate an article or researcher is on par with the average for the articles it is being compared with.

A FWCI below 1 would indicate an article or researcher that is cited below the global average

A FWCI above 1 would indicate an article or researcher that is cited above the global average

SciVal calculates an overall Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) for a researcher, showing how their publications have performed compared with similar publications from the same year, subject area and document type.

  1. In SciVal, select the Explore module from the top navigation bar.
  2. Select or define your entity.
  3. Select the required date range.
  4. View the Field-Weighted Citation Impact in the summary panel.

SciVal Metric: Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI).

Measures of esteem

In addition to citations, you can include esteem measures into any grant or promotion application.

  • Recipient of a nationally competitive research fellowship
  • Membership of a statutory committee
  • Recipient of an Australian Council grant or Australian Council fellowship
  • Invitations to speak, particularly as the keynote speaker
  • Involvement in committees, organisations or societies
  • Editor or reviewer on a major journal or of a of a prestigious work or reference
  • Awards or rankings in prestigious lists
  • Fellowship of a learned academy

Calculate your H-index

The H-Index, proposed by Jorge Hirsch in 2005, looks at the number of articles by an author (or group) and the number of times those articles have been cited. It combines this data to produce a single number - the h-index.

The h-index is calculated where h number of articles have been cited h or more times.

Example: An h-index of 10 means an author has ten articles that have each received ten or more citations.

An h-index can be generated for an author in both the Web of Science and Scopus databases based on the citations data for indexed articles in each of them.

The following presentation explains how to calculate the h-index, along with some of the limitations with it as a measure of research impact.




Career Conversations Instructions

Metrics and Altmetrics Calculations

Researchers completing Career Conversation documentation may find these instructions helpful for locating some of the metrics and altmetrics specified in the research metrics table in the Academic Performance and Career Plan Template.

Academic Performance and Career Plan: Instructions for completing the Research Metrics Table [PDF, 1.28MB] [Curtin Staff login required]