[Author] Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) and [Author] Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI)
What
Citation impacts normalised by the field, like the FWCI and CNCI, indicate how the number of citations received by a researcher’s publications compares to the average or expected number of citations from similar publications. Similar publications are determined by year, type, and discipline. The citations received in the year an item was published and the following three years are counted for this metric.
Why
- To benchmark entities of different size, disciplinary profile, or age. For example:
- An institution and department (group of researchers) within that institution
- A country and small research institutes within that country
- A geographical region and countries within that region
- For more information, see Elsevier's Research Metrics Guidebook and Clarivate's InCites Indicator Handbook
Applications
- Funding applications, Academic promotion, Job applications
Considerations
- If demonstrating the magnitude of citations is important, FWCI and CNCI may not be appropriate
Common tools
- SciVal, the research analytics product from Elsevier, provides Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)
- InCites: the research analytics product from Clarivate Analytics, provides Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI)
How to find citation impacts normalised by field:
1. SciVal - Author Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)
- Access SciVal through Scopus, or from www.scival.com
- SciVal is available to Deakin users, however, you will need to log in using an Elsevier account. This personal account is required as you will be setting up and saving preferences. If you have an account for Scopus or ScienceDirect, this will work. If not, click Register Now
- Once logged in, select the Overview module
- In the left-hand menu, under Researchers and Groups, select Add Researchers and Groups
- Select Define a new researcher, and search for yourself using your last name, first initial, and affiliation
- Select any name variations that are you, Validate Publications if you wish (helpful if you have a popular name and want to ensure all publications are yours), or Directly go to Save Researcher
- Choose a name and add tags (optional), then click Save and Finish
- FWCI will be displayed in the Overall Research Performance page. Note that dates and subject filters can be applied.
- A wider range of dates (back to 1996) is available via the Benchmarking module.
Note: Calculating FWCI from SciVal only takes into consideration documents that are indexed in the Scopus database from 1996 onwards.
2. InCites - Author Category-Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI)
Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI) for subject, year and document type is calculated from data found in Web of Science.
- Create a Web of Science Researcher Profile and add your publication for the most accurate data from Web of Science
- Access InCites through Web of Science or from the Library A-Z Resource List
- InCites is available to Deakin users. However, you must log in using a Web of Science account. This personal account is required as you will be setting up and saving preferences. If you have an account for Web of Science or EndNote, this will work. If not, click Register Now
- Once logged in, select the Analyze lookup menu and choose Analyze by Researchers
- In the selection panel at the top of the page, ensure that you have the following settings:
- Researchers
- Person ID type group: Unique ID
- Person ID type: Web of Science ResearcherID or ORCID
- and then paste your ResearcherID (this will be listed in your Publons profile) or ORCID into the search field
- Your profile will now be the only one available in the table of researchers
- If CNCI is not already displayed as one of the indicators in the results section, you can add it by clicking the + Add indicator button.
- Access more InCites help from the Help menu or watch some Training Tutorials.
- You can also obtain a range of metrics for an individual researcher by choosing to create a Researcher Report from the Report lookup menu.