Document metrics are used to quantify the impact of published work, these include articles, conference proceedings, book chapters and more. In Scopus, these metrics include:
- Citation count; Shows the total number of times the document has been cited in Scopus.
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI); Shows how well the document is cited when compared to similar documents. This takes into consideration, the year of publication, document type as well as disciplines associated with its source. A value greater than 1.00 means the document is more cited than expected. FWCI is calculated by dividing the number of citations a publication received by the average number of citations to publications in a database, published within the same year, of the same type and within the same subject category.
- Percentile benchmark; Shows how citations received by the document compare with the average for similar documents.
- PlumX metrics; provides insights on how the users interact with the publication.
Example of Article Metrics
