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Use publication metrics to gauge the reach and influence of your individual articles and publication set.
The number of times a publication has appeared in the reference list of other publications. Citations are a measure of influence amongst other scholars, and that influence can be negative, positive, or neutral.
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Consider the context of a citation to understand its true meaning. Many factors can impact citation counts including database coverage, differences in publishing patterns across disciplines, citation accrual times, self-citation rates, the age of the publication, observation period, or journal status.
The percentage of your papers that have been cited enough times to place them in the top 1%, 5%, 10%, or 25% (when compared to papers in the same category, year, and of the same document type).
Outputs in Top Citation Percentiles is expressed as a percentile or awarded a “Highly Cited” label based upon percentile rankings.
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Percentile-based indicators are based on citations and should be interpreted with care. They area impacted by the factors that can influence citation rates for publications within subject areas and year of publication, including the number of co-authors, the nationalities of authors, and outliers (very high or low cited publications).
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The Field Normalized Citation Impact (FNCI) is the ratio between the actual citations received by a publication and the average number of citations received by all other similar publications.
Similar publications are ones in the same subject category, of the same type (i.e. article, review, book chapter, etc.), and of the same age (i.e. publication year).
A value of 1.00 indicates that the work performs at the expected global average. A value >1.00 indicates that the publication exceeds the world average.
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Hot Papers are papers published in the last two years that are receiving citations quickly after publication. These papers have been cited enough times in the most recent bimonthly period to place them in the top 0.1% when compared to papers in the same field and added to the database in the same period.
Highly Cited Papers are papers that perform in the top 1% based on the number of citations received when compared to other papers published in the same field in the same year
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Papers identified as Highly Cited or Hot can change over time, as the ESI database updates every 2 months. There may be other reasons (beyond citation metrics) as to why a paper may be significant within the field.