Field-Weighted Citation Impact

What is it?

The Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) of a publication is the ratio of citations received compared to the world average for similar publications (field, publication type and year of publication). The FWCI of the "World" (the Scopus database) is 1.00. It is calculated using citations from the year of publications, plus the following three years.
The FWCI of a researcher is the average FWCI of their publications.

How do I use it?

It allows you to benchmark the citation performance of your publications against similar publications. You can compare entities of different sizes. A FWCI above 1.00 indicates the researcher's publications have been cited more than expected according to the global average of similar publications. For example a FWCI of 1.75 is 75% more than the world average.
It can be use to compare research performance across disciplines.
This metric should be used with care for entities with a small number of publications e.g. researchers with a small number of publications indexed in Scopus, as it is a mean average and can be inflated by one or two highly cited publications in smaller sets of publications.

You can find more information about this metric here.

My publications have a Field-Weighted Citation Impact of 1.5, 50% more than the world average, indicating they are more cited than expected compared to the global average for similar publications (SciVal, date).

Scopus (last 10 years only)

Author metrics

Go to your author profile in Scopus. Instructions on how to search for an author in Scopus are here.
Click on the 'Impact' tab.

Scroll to the bottom of the page and you will find the Field-Weighted Citation Impact for the last 10 years.

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.

You will find your Field-Weighted Citation Impact on the 'Summary' tab.

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'

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.

Click on the down arrow on the metric displayed next to 'One metric over time'.
1. Click on 'Cited'.
2. Select 'Field-Weighted Citation Impact'.
3. Select from the available options e.g. publication types, with or without self-citations etc.
4. 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'
1. Select 'Field-Weighted Citation Impact'.
2. Select from the available options you would like to apply e.g. publication types with or without self-citations etc.
3. 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.