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Normalised metrics

What are normalised metrics?

Allows you to see how a paper, group of papers or a journal performs relative to baselines, putting your citations into context.

Key normalised metrics

Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI) Shows impact normalised for subject category, time and document type. Sourced from InCites.
Field Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) Shows impact normalised by discipline, time and document type. Sourced from Scopus or SciVal.

What does CNCI and FWCI show?

  • A value of one shows performance is on par (as expected) with the world average.
  • Values above one are considered above average. For example:
    • A CNCI of two is considered twice the world average.
    • A FWCI of 1.20 is considered 20% above the world average.
  • Values below one are considered below average.

Definitions adapted from

How to use InCites

InCites (Clarivate) uses data from Web of Science Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.

Getting started

  1. Select Analyze > Researchers
  2. Search using your ORCiD or ResearcherID
  3. Use +Add indicator option to add different indicators to your report including:
  • your overall CNCI or the CNCI for individual outputs
  • outputs in the top 1% or 10% (percentiles)
  • % of industry or international collaborations
  • % of outputs in Q1 or Q2 journals

Authorise your ORCiD with UniSA to allow automatic updates from the Research Outputs Repository.

Access

Create a personal account or use your Web of Science account.

Step by step help

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Academic Staff Activity Report

The NCI displayed is sourced from InCites and updated quarterly.

"Citations per publication normalised for subject focus, age, and document type...Uses the My Organisations Dataset (as defined by Academic Staff and Journal Articles), most recent 6 full calendar years, includes ESCI. Web of Science schema." - BiHub from:

How to use SciVal

SciVal (Elsevier) uses bibliographic and citation data from Scopus.

Getting Started

When you log into SciVal using your personalised Scopus account your individual profile should automatically display on the Welcome to SciVal home page.

If this does not occur:

  1. Select Overview > Researchers and Groups (left menu)
  2. Add New+ > Define a new researcher and search for yourself
  3. Follow the prompts including Validate publications
  4. Tick This is me > Save and finish
  5. Alternatively connect through MySciVal > Settings

To look up other researchers just use the Researchers and Group's search function.

You can find a range of metrics including:

  • your overall FWCI
  • collaborations
  • outputs in the top 10% citations percentiles
  • outputs in top journals percentiles

Saving data

Use Reports to run a report template or create a customised report.

Access

Create a personal account or use your Scopus account.

More help

Update schedule

InCites

  • Updated monthly with data from the end of the previous month in Web of Science Core Collection.
  • At least one month behind metrics in Web of Science Core Collection, which is updated daily.
  • Please note delays between ORCiD updates showing in InCites.

SciVal

  • Data is updated weekly from Scopus from 1996 onwards.
  • Generally two weeks behind the data in Scopus.

More details

Explaining metrics

InCites

SciVal

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