Impact & Engagement

Field-Weighted Citation Impact

The field-weighted citation impact (FWCI) is an author metric which compares the total citations received by a researcher's publications to the average number of citations received by all other similar outputs published in the same research field.

Field-Weighted Citation Impact takes into account the differences in research behaviour across disciplines.

Researchers working in fields such as medicine and biochemistry typically produce more outputs with more co-authors and longer reference lists than researchers working in fields such as mathematics and education.  This is a reflection of research culture, and not performance.
The FWCI is calculated in SciVal.

The global mean of the FWCI is 1.0, so an FWCI of 1.50 means that the researcher has achieved 50% more citations than the world average within that research field; whereas, an FWCI of .75 means that the researcher has achieved 25% less citations than the world average in that research field.