Measuring Research Impact

When looking at records for individual articles. see:

• Citations (aka times cited) in Scopus, along with a percentile (Citation Benchmarking)
• Citation Benchmarking
• PlumX Metrics - for altmetrics

Citation Benchmarking shows how citations received by this article compare with the average for similar articles. 99th percentile is high, and indicates an article in the top 1% globally. It takes into account:

• Date of publication
• Document type
• Disciplines associated with the source
• Compared articles within an 18 month window and is computed separately for each of its sources' disciplines

Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)  -  the ratio of the total citations actually received by the denominator’s output, and the total citations that would be expected based on the average of the subject field.

• The FWCI is the ratio of the document's citations to the average number of citations received by all similar documents over a three-year window. Each discipline makes an equal contribution to the metric, which eliminates differences in researcher citation behavior.
• FWCI  Attempts to account for disciplinary differences in publication patterns
  • ex: medicine has more output and more co-authors than education which is a reflection of research culture, not performance -A denominator of multiple disciplines could allow one field to dominate others (ex. medicine would dominate education)
  • Non-weighted metrics would allow an institution focused on medicine appear to perform better than an institution focused on social sciences
• FWCI of:
  • *Exactly 1* means the output performs just as expected for the global average
  • More than1 means that the output is more cited than expected according to the global average
    Less than 1 means that the output is cited less than expected according to the global average