Bibliometric Measures in Citation-Tracking Databases: Scopus citation data

• Citation Count: The Citation Count is the total number of documents indexed by Scopus that cite a document, group of documents, or researchers. ​

• Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWC): The FWCI shows citation impact compared to similar articles (type, discipline and age) indexed by Scopus. It is calculated by dividing the number of citations received by a document by the number of citations received by similar documents. 

Scopus offers the ability to overview citation activity for a defined group of publications via the Analyze Search Results feature. This feature allows you to produce an overview of citation activity for a defined group of publications. 

At the search results level you can: 

• Modify the date range for publications and citation activity, exclude self citations of all authors, and/or exclude citations from books.
   
• Automatically calculate the h-index for the group of publications.

Watch the video to learn more about Scopus Article Metrics, Scopus Tutorial: How to view document metrics in Scopus (YouTube video , 3:37).

As with many databases, Scopus offers ways to keep you up to date with new citations to specific publications. Two features support this:

• Set Citation Alert: Creating this email alert will notify you via email when the specified document receives new citations by items in Scopus. 
   
• Set Citation Feed: Creating this feed will notify you via RSS when the specified document receives new citations by items in Scopus.