USING ELSEVIER’S FIELD WEIGHTED CITATION INDEX SCORE FOR REDUNDANCY SELECTION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL

Senior management at the University of Liverpool intend to make 47 academic staff members in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences redundant as part of a restructure titled ‘Project SHAPE’. One of the two criteria it has used to select staff for redundancy is an Elsevier metric called the ‘Field Weighted Citation Impact’ (FWCI). The University of Liverpool has defined an FWCI score of < 2 as the threshold for redundancy selection.