Trackademia

Welcome to Trackademia

The idea behind Trackademia is to build on existing academic databases like Google Scholar and OpenAlex so that you can trust the data and use it for whatever you want. That comes down to two things.

More data, and more ways to use it. We aggregate publication data from every major source into a single dataset and add information pulled from faculty CVs. Then we let you slice it however you want: choose which sources to build from, write your own formulas, weight journals, adjust for department size.

More accurate, and honest about where it isn’t. We focus on a smaller set of schools so we can verify everything carefully. Faculty lists come from department websites rather than being inferred from publication records, so we know who should be in the data before we go looking. When we can’t find data on someone, we record the gap instead of dropping them. Every number comes with a coverage rate you can check against ground truth.

Everything in Trackademia is built from seven units. AI merges duplicate records across sources and tags each publication so these categories hold up:

  • Publication — citation counts, authors, journal, peer review status, and more
  • Publication group — versions of the same work combined into one entity, such as a working paper and the article it became
  • Academic
  • Department
  • University
  • Field
  • Journal

There are two modes. In Database mode you browse the underlying records and filter by any of the seven units. In Analytics mode you get graphs and comparisons, and you switch views to compare two departments, compare one department against the average of the others, or see them all at once. Tabs let you focus on a particular level of the data.
Trackademia
Value Statistic Unit

Academics

Citations per year in post (from the first professorial appointment, else the PhD year) · the 20 highest of 198 academics
1 Shouheng Sun Brown Chemistry · Distinguished · 21 years in post 4,379.3
2 Diptarka Hait Columbia Chemistry · Assistant · 1 years in post 4,321.0
3 David R. Liu Harvard Chemistry · Distinguished · 27 years in post 3,778.7
4 Xiaowei Zhuang Harvard Chemistry · Distinguished · 25 years in post 3,159.7
5 Robert A. DiStasio Jr. Cornell Chemistry · Assistant · 11 years in post 3,149.0
6 William Jorgensen Yale Chemistry · Distinguished · 51 years in post 3,128.3
7 Jarad Mason Harvard Chemistry · Associate · 8 years in post 2,361.8
8 Lilia Xie Princeton Chemistry · Assistant · 1 years in post 1,806.0
9 Jaehyeok Jin Yale Chemistry · Postdoc · 1 years in post 1,696.0
10 Jon Ellman Yale Chemistry · Distinguished · 34 years in post 1,590.7
11 Xiaoyang Zhu Columbia Chemistry · Distinguished · 33 years in post 1,521.4
12 Salvatore Torquato Princeton Chemistry · Distinguished · 45 years in post 1,370.2
13 Joseph Subotnik Princeton Chemistry · Full · 16 years in post 1,366.8
14 Tom Muir Princeton Chemistry · Distinguished · 30 years in post 1,349.1
15 Ou Chen Brown Chemistry · Full · 11 years in post 1,348.1
16 Lai-Sheng Wang Brown Chemistry · Distinguished · 33 years in post 1,325.1
17 Yusong Bai Brown Chemistry · Assistant · 4 years in post 1,235.2
18 Dirk Trauner Penn Chemistry · Distinguished · 26 years in post 1,193.6
19 Paul Chirik Princeton Chemistry · Distinguished · 25 years in post 1,144.4
20 Jeffrey R. Long Harvard Chemistry · Distinguished · 29 years in post 985.7

2,187,722 citations over 13,007 of 15,497 works (84% carry a count). 140 of 198 academics have at least one counted work. A work with no citation count is unknown here, never a zero.

Publications by career year

Publications in each year of a career
Statistic

Pooled over the 88 of 198 academics whose CV states a PhD year, across 8 departments; career year 0 is the PhD year. A career year fewer than 5 of them have reached is a gap. A total counts only the academics who had reached that career year, so the tail is low because fewer of them are in it; the mean and the median divide by exactly those academics.

Citations by career year

Citations of the works published in each career year
Value Statistic

Pooled over the 88 of 198 academics whose CV states a PhD year, across 8 departments; career year 0 is the PhD year. A career year fewer than 5 of them have reached is a gap. The citations of the works published in that career year, not the citations received in it. A total counts only the academics who had reached that career year, so the tail is low because fewer of them are in it; the mean and the median divide by exactly those academics.

Publications per year

Works published in each year
Statistic Unit Each point

One line, publications per academic over the 198 academics the filters select, by the year each work was published; an undated work is in no year. A work two of them share counts for each of them.

Citations per year

Citations received in each year
Statistic Unit Each point

One line, citations per academic over the 198 academics the filters select. Citations received in each year, from the academics’ verified Scholar profiles, which count every citation to everything they wrote: no publication filter reaches this line, and no journal weight either, which is why it offers no Value.

h-index

Academics at each h-index
Series: Academics.02550751–4 Academics 115–9 Academics 7710–19 Academics 171720–39 Academics 404040+ Academics 75751–45–910–1920–3940+Academicsh-index

The verified Scholar profile’s h-index where there is one, else computed from the OpenAlex citations of the academic’s CV works (definitions section 6): Scholar for 112 academics, OpenAlex citations of CV works for 28, 58 with no h-index. Never OpenAlex’s author-level figure, and no filter here moves it.

Makeup by rank

Academics at each current rank
Series: value.DistinguishedDistinguished 3636FullFull 2727AssociateAssociate 66AssistantAssistant 1818PostdocPostdoc 11UnknownUnknown 110110020406080100RankAcademics

The current rank of every academic the filters keep (definitions section 7). A rank is current as of the CV, so no year window or kind moves it.

Top collaborators

Works two of the selected academics both hold
Series: value.Jarad Mason · Jeffrey R. LongJarad Mason · Jeffrey R. Long 3434Jeffrey R. Long · Miguel I. GonzalezJeffrey R. Long · Miguel I. Gonzalez 3030Xavier Roy · Xiaoyang ZhuXavier Roy · Xiaoyang Zhu 3030Abraham Nitzan · Joseph SubotnikAbraham Nitzan · Joseph Subotnik 2929Jeffrey R. Long · Phillip MilnerJeffrey R. Long · Phillip Milner 1919Jerome Robinson · Patrick J. WalshJerome Robinson · Patrick J. Walsh 1616Christopher J. Chang · Jeffrey R. LongChristopher J. Chang · Jeffrey R. Long 1313Eric J. Schelter · Patrick J. WalshEric J. Schelter · Patrick J. Walsh 1212Christina Woo · Seth HerzonChristina Woo · Seth Herzon 1111Colin P. Nuckolls · Xiaoyang ZhuColin P. Nuckolls · Xiaoyang Zhu 1111Jarad Mason · Miguel I. GonzalezJarad Mason · Miguel I. Gonzalez 1111Neel H. Shah · Tom MuirNeel H. Shah · Tom Muir 11110102030PairShared works

The pairs of the 198 selected academics who share the most of these works. 473 of the 15,497 selected works are held by two of them, making 168 pairs - a work three of them share is three pairs, so the two figures are different quantities and neither is a sum of the other. Only collaborations inside this selection are here: a work written with somebody outside it is counted everywhere else on this page and cannot be paired.

First Second

Pick two academics to see how many of the selected works they share.