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Back to all metricsCited Publications in SciVal indicates the citability of a set of publications: how many of this entity’s publications have received at least 1 citation?
Cited Publications is a:
- Citation Impact metric
- “Power Metric” when the “Total value” option is selected, but not when the “Percentage” option is selected
SciVal often displays Cited Publications in a chart or table with years. These years are always the years in which items were published, and do not refer to the years in which citations were received.
- Benchmark the extent to which publications are built on by subsequent work
- Compare the influence of publications of entities of different sizes, but in related disciplines, such as large and small countries, or a research team with individual Researchers within that team
- It is advised to select the 'Percentage' option when comparing entities of different sizes, to normalize for this variable.
- Demonstrate the excellence of entities that produce consistent work that is reliably cited, regardless of the number of citations received
- Account for the positive impact of a few very highly cited papers on apparent performance, which affect Citation Count and Citations per Publication
- Benchmarking the extent to which the publications of entities with distinct disciplinary profiles are built on by subsequent work:
- Teams working in parasitology, for instance, may experience a relatively short delay between publishing and the receipt of citations because of the high frequency of publishing and citing, relative to teams working in mathematical modeling where publication behavior may lead to a relatively long delay between publishing and the receipt of citations.
- It is not advisable to use this metric to compare entities in distinct disciplines without taking these differences into account.
- When comparing entities made up of a mixture of disciplines, such as an Institution or a Group of Institutions, it is advised to apply the Research Area filter to focus on one field that is common between all the entities.
- Understanding the magnitude of the number of citations received by an entity’s publications. Users are advised to use Citation Count or Citations per Publication to communicate this information
- Entities are small and there may be gaps in their output within the Scopus coverage:
- A single missing publication from a small data set may have a significant negative impact on apparent visibility. For example, an academic’s performance may suffer due to gaps in items they have published, as well as gaps in publications citing the publications that are indexed.
- The only way to account for this is to be vigilant. Consider also limiting the use of Cited Publications to comparing larger data sets in the same discipline in which potential gaps in the database coverage likely have a similar effect on all entities being viewed and do not invalidate the comparison.
- There is a concern that excessive self-citations may be artificially inflating the proportion of cited publications. Users can judge whether the level of self-citations is higher than expected by deselecting the “Include self-citations” option.
- Uncovering the performance of publications in the very early stages of a new strategy, or of early-career researchers, where the short time that has passed since publication will reduce the reliability of based on decisions on citation information
- Citations Count opens in new tab/windowand Citations per Publicationopens in new tab/window, which indicate the magnitude of citation impact, and which will be positively impacted by one or a few publications that have received a very high number of citations
- The set of all other “Power Metrics” whose value tends to increase as the entity becomes bigger: Scholarly Output, Subject Area Count, Citation Count, Number of Citing Countries, Collaboration (“Total value”), Academic-Corporate Collaboration (“Total value”), Outputs in Top Citation Percentiles (“Total value”), Publications in Top Journal Percentiles (“Total value”), and h-indices
- The set of “time-independent metrics” that provide useful, reliable information immediately upon publication and do not rely on the passing of time for useful data to accumulate: Scholarly Output, Subject Area Count, Scopus Source Title Count, Collaboration, Academic-Corporate Collaboration, and Publications in Top Journal Percentiles
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