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Lead CI citations at award year

Y-axis: mean or median of OpenAlex cumulative citations (through each grant’s funding_commencement_year) for the lead investigator (Discovery chief investigator; DECRA / other fellowship holder).

X-axis: funding commencement year (from 2010 onward, matching enrichment). Filter by FoR codes (same hierarchy as other Discovery tools).

Grant details

Click a point on the chart to list grants for that year (top 50 by lead citations, current FoR filter).

Method: Citations are from OpenAlex author profiles, summing per-calendar-year cited_by_count entries up to and including the grant’s funding commencement year (not identical to Google Scholar). Grants without a lead ORCID or with no OpenAlex match show as empty and are omitted from the mean/median for that year. Only grants with funding_commencement_year ≥ 2010 are included in the chart and in the enrichment script by default (--min-funding-year). FoR filter: a grant is included if for_all_codes contains a code consistent with the selection (6-digit exact; 4-digit prefix; 2-digit division).
Discovery data: arc_discovery_projects_2010_2026_with_for_lead_citations.csv (lead = first chief investigator ORCID). Fellowship data: arc_fellowships_lead_citations.csv (lead = first fellowship holder ORCID). The chart groups fellowships using scheme_name: DECRA = Discovery Early Career Researcher Award; other fellowships = Future, Laureate, and Industry Laureate. Build both with python scripts/lead_ci_citations_openalex.py and python scripts/sync_site_assets.py.
Click a point on the line chart to show the top 50 grants for that year (matching the active series and FoR filters), sorted by lead citations. Project text is the ARC grant summary (truncated), from grant_summaries.json (python scripts/generate_grant_summaries.py).
Shaded band (optional): with Mean aggregation, the band is an approximate 95% confidence interval for the mean (±1.96 × standard error). With Median aggregation, the band is the interquartile range (Q1–Q3) of grant-level citations in that year — descriptive spread, not a confidence interval for the median.