As follows is a brief overview of the 2015-2017 publications produced by authors from Washington University in St. Louis using Elsevier Scopus and SciVal. Scopus is a large database of peer-reviewed literature that contains 69 million publication records representing 25,000 journals and other sources worldwide covering the Sciences, Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities. SciVal offers access to the research performance of 8,500 research institutions and 220 countries using publication, citation and usage data from Scopus.
| Metric | |
| Scholarly Output | 18,048 |
| Authors | 12,325 |
| Citations | 173,846 |
| Citations per Publication | 9.6 |
| Field-Weighted Citation Impact | 2.24 |
| Publications in Top 10% Most Cited Worldwide | 26% |
| International Collaboration | 30.3% |
| Only Institutional Collaboration | 23% |
| Single Authorship | 7.8% |
What do the Numbers Mean?
- Scholarly Output: Number of publications indexed in Scopus.
- Authors: Number of authors noted on the publications.
- Citations: Number of citations received by the publications.
- Citations per Publication: Average number of citations received for the publications.
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact: Ratio of citations received relative to the expected world average for the subject field, publication type and publication year. More than 1 means that the output is more cited than expected according to the global average; for example, 1.48 means 48% more cited than expected.
- Publications in Top 10% Most Cited Worldwide: Percentage of the publications in the top 10% of most cited publications worldwide.
- International Collaboration: Percentage of the publications co-authored with institutions in other countries.
- Only Institutional Collaboration: Percentage of publications co-authored with WU authors only.
- Single Authorship: Percentage of single-authored publications.
Washington University: Subject Areas Represented by 2015-2017 Publications
Washington University: Top Ten Journals Represented by 2015-2017 Publications
| Top Ten Journal Titles | Number of Publications |
| PLoS One | 239 |
| Scientific Reports | 210 |
| Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 158 |
| Nature Communications | 120 |
| Journal of Biological Chemistry | 99 |
| Annals of Thoracic Surgery | 91 |
| Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery | 80 |
| Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE | 80 |
| JNCCN Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network | 77 |
| Journal of Clinical Oncology | 75 |
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