Check the FWCI of a research group

Enter the members' ORCID iDs in the box at the top of this page, one per line (names work too), up to 10 at a time. Each member's record is read from ORCID and OpenAlex, and you get one row per member with their papers, mean and median field-weighted citation impact (FWCI), share of papers above the world average, top 10% papers, h-index and citations, then the group's own figures, its top papers and two CSVs. There is no account and nothing you enter is stored.

Because members of a group write papers together. The group's papers are every member's papers with each one counted once, and the group's FWCI is the mean FWCI of those papers, the definition SciVal uses for any set of publications. Averaging the members' figures would count a paper three times when three members wrote it, and give a member with five papers the same weight as one with eighty.

The number of papers two or more members share is shown beside the group's figure.

The same as the researcher check: when a member's ORCID record lists papers, those count, because it is the list they keep themselves. When the record is empty, the papers OpenAlex attributes to the member's iD count instead, and the row says so. Articles, reviews, conference papers, books and chapters, letters, editorials, and data and software papers count; preprints, repository copies and datasets do not.

A member entered by name is matched to the largest OpenAlex profile carrying that name and marked as matched by name, with a link to choose another profile. An ORCID iD is exact, so use one wherever you can.

With care. FWCI already adjusts for field, publication year and document type, which is why it is fairer across disciplines than raw citation counts or the h-index. It does not adjust for career length, for a person's role on a paper or for the many contributions that are not papers, and a mean over a few papers can swing on one highly cited result.

The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment and the Leiden Manifesto both ask that indicators like these support expert judgment rather than replace it, especially for individuals. A group's figure over many papers is steadier than any one person's, and the median and the share above 1.0 beside each mean show whether one paper is carrying it.

A check reads up to 10 members, because each member's whole record is read live. For a larger department, check it in groups and keep each Members CSV and Papers CSV: the papers file lists every paper with its members, so shared papers can be counted once across the groups as well.