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Article impact demonstrates reach and engagement with a particular work. Regardless of the number of your publications, article-level metrics can help quantify how your research outputs are being discussed, shared, and used, highlighting your most impactful works.
It is important to remember:
The number of times that your article has been cited in other works.
As a measure of the usage and impact of the cited work. Example statement:
The number of times your article has been accessed, downloaded or viewed.
To demonstrate the level of engagement with an article and give a sense of how many people have read your article. Example statements:
An indicator of your article's impact normalised for subject area, year of publication (age), and document type. This metric accounts for differences in publication and citation behaviour between disciplines. SciVal has the Field Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI), which is based on publications indexed in Scopus. InCites has the Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI), which is based on publications indexed in Web of Science.
It can be used to show how the citations received by your publications compare with the average for similar publications. A FWCI (SciVal) or CNCI (InCites) of 1.00 indicates that your publications have been cited as expected based on the average for similar publications. More than 1.00 indicates it’s more cited than expected, less than 1.00 indicates it’s less cited than expected. Example statements:
The number of times an article has been cited in policy.
Where to find it
To demonstrate how your research outputs have shaped industry, organisation or individual actions. Example statement:
A comparative rank based on the number of citations received by your article relative to other articles published in the same year and same subject area.
Citation percentiles can be used to demonstrate the reach of your output relative to your field. Example statements:
Highly cited papers are those published in the last 10 years and in the top 1% of cited publications in their field. Hot papers are those published in the last two years and in the top 0.1% of cited papers in their field.
As an indicator of reach (highly cited papers) or early impact (hot papers) within the discipline. Example statements:
Journal metrics are evidence of the consistency and sustained performance of a journal over time. While it may add to your narrative to highlight being publishing in high quality journals, depending on the statement you’re making, using journal metrics indicates more about the journal, than it does about you and your work. It is important that metrics are used responsibly to ensure an appropriate assessment of research.
There’s a range of quality indicators for journals and most are calculated using the data from Web of Science or Scopus. More information can be found in our Strategic Publishing guide.
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