Check the FWCI of a researcher's papers

Enter your ORCID iD in the box at the top of this page. The check reads the works on your ORCID record and the papers OpenAlex attributes to your iD, and shows each paper's field-weighted citation impact (FWCI) with your record's mean and median FWCI, how many of your papers are above the world average, how many are in the top 10% of comparable papers, and an h-index, with a CSV to keep. There is no account and nothing you enter is stored.

No ORCID iD to hand? Enter your name as it appears on your papers and choose your profile.

It is the mean of the FWCIs of the researcher's papers, the definition SciVal uses for any set of publications. Each paper's FWCI compares the citations it received in its publication year and the three years after with those expected for papers of the same type, year and subfield, so 1.0 is the world average.

A mean is easily lifted by one very highly cited paper, so the median sits beside it: the value half the papers are above. The share of papers above 1.0 and the number in the top 10% often describe a record more fairly than either.

When your ORCID record lists papers, the summary counts those: the list you keep yourself. OpenAlex's author profiles also gather papers by name, institution and co-authors, and can hold meeting abstracts, repository copies or another person's paper, so the papers it adds beyond your record are listed separately, one click from being included.

Articles, reviews, conference papers, books and chapters, letters, editorials, and data and software papers count. Preprints, repository copies, datasets, theses and corrections are listed apart: they are versions or by-products of papers, and most carry no FWCI. If your ORCID record is empty, the summary uses the papers OpenAlex attributes to your iD and says so.

The method is the same, the data is not. OpenAlex computes FWCI over its open catalog of scholarly works and its own subfields; Scopus counts only citations from the documents it indexes and uses its own subject classification and author profiles. OpenAlex's catalog is larger, with many uncited works that lower the expected value, so its FWCIs tend to run somewhat higher.

When a form asks for the SciVal or Scopus figure, use that one. This check gives an open number you can reproduce and share, with every paper linked to its record.

A paper missing from the summary usually is not on your ORCID record: add it at orcid.org, and it appears here within the hour. A paper that is not yours sits on your OpenAlex profile; OpenAlex lets you claim your profile and remove works from it at openalex.org. Either way, the CSV marks where each row came from, so you can drop rows and recompute.

From the papers counted in the summary and their OpenAlex citation counts: the largest number h such that h of the papers have at least h citations each. It covers the period you choose, so "since" a year gives the h-index of the papers published since then. Google Scholar usually reports a higher one, because it counts citations from theses, preprints and other documents too.