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Field-Weighted Citation Impact
Scopus (last 10 years only)
Author metrics
- Login to Scopus.
- Click on the 'Author' tab.
- Search using your last name and first name or initial. You can also add your affiliation.
- Click on your profile in the search results. If you have multiple profiles, you can merge them in this screen. It can take approximately 10 working days for changes to your profile to appear in Scopus.
- Click on the 'Author metrics' tab.
![Click on Author Metrics…](https://images.tango.us/workflows/0209baa6-fb3e-42a9-8cf1-19b1e48d01b3/steps/77034c69-deb1-4666-b545-2eeb1d6175ce/584d1910-5867-4a9b-b01a-3b914b202e6b.png?mark-x=119&mark-y=107&m64=aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWFnZXMudGFuZ28udXMvc3RhdGljL2JsYW5rLnBuZz9tYXNrPWNvcm5lcnMmYm9yZGVyPTQlMkM2Mzc4QUQmdz0xMTAmaD0zNCZmaXQ9Y3JvcCZjb3JuZXItcmFkaXVzPTEw)
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and you will find the Field-Weighted Citation Impact for the last 10 years.
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SciVal
Explore (using predefined publication periods)
- Login to SciVal.
- Click on 'Explore'
- If you haven't used SciVal before, you will need to define yourself. Instructions here.
- Select the period you would like to analyse.
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- You will find your Field-Weighted Citation Impact on the 'Summary' tab.
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Compare (1996 onwards)
- Login to SciVal.
- If you haven't used SciVal before, you will need to define yourself. Instructions here.
- Click on 'Compare'.
- Click on 'All metrics' under 'Benchmarking'
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- Using the menu on the left side of the page, click on the person icon and select your name.
- Under the 'Benchmark all metrics' heading, select the period you would like to use.
- Click on 'Table' to get numbers, rather than a graph.
- There are several ways to select metrics in the Compare section.
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- Click on the down arrow on the metric displayed next to 'One metric over time'.
- Click on 'Cited'.
- Select 'Field-Weighted Citation Impact'.
- Select from the available options e.g. publication types, with or without self-citations etc.
- Click on 'Add metric'.
- Click on 'Manage multiple metrics'.
- Under the 'Metrics to add' section, you can choose what options you would like to apply to the metric.
- Drag and drop 'Field-Weighed Citation Impact' to the 'Metrics in the table' section.
- Click 'Update metrics'.
- Click on 'Add metric'
- Select 'Field-Weighted Citation Impact'.
- Select from the available options you would like to apply e.g. publication types with or without self-citations etc.
- Click on 'Add metric'.
- If you've selected one metric, you will see the metric values for all years. To get the overall metric for the whole period will be in the 'Overall' column. If you've selected multiple metrics, the value shown under the metric headings will be for all the selected years.
- You can export to a spreadsheet or add to a report.