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 265 academics
1 Cathy Caruth Cornell English · Distinguished · 40 years in post 747.6
2 Bruce Robbins Columbia English · Distinguished · 42 years in post 205.1
3 Leela Gandhi Brown English · Distinguished · 12 years in post 202.0
4 Sharon Marcus Columbia English · Distinguished · 32 years in post 177.0
5 James E. Dobson Dartmouth English · Associate · 6 years in post 157.8
6 Martin Puchner Harvard English · Distinguished · 28 years in post 112.3
7 John Durham Peters Yale English · Distinguished · 40 years in post 96.2
8 Amanda Anderson Brown English · Distinguished · 37 years in post 83.9
9 Timothy Bewes Brown English · Distinguished · 22 years in post 78.8
10 James English Penn English · Distinguished · 38 years in post 76.4
11 Cajetan Iheka Yale English · Full · 11 years in post 70.5
12 Caleb Smith Yale English · Full · 21 years in post 67.2
13 Jennifer Wenzel Columbia English · Full · 27 years in post 66.7
14 Simon Gikandi Princeton English · Distinguished · 40 years in post 56.0
15 Paul Saint-Amour Penn English · Distinguished · 29 years in post 55.3
16 Elaine Scarry Harvard English · Distinguished · 29 years in post 46.4
17 Ruth Yeazell Yale English · Distinguished · 55 years in post 36.9
18 Zachary Lesser Penn English · Distinguished · 25 years in post 36.6
19 Kevin Attell Cornell English · Associate · 19 years in post 35.8
20 Katie Trumpener Yale English · Distinguished · 31 years in post 30.9

113,519 citations over 1,826 of 3,204 works (57% carry a count). 119 of 265 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 99 of 265 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 99 of 265 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.

Makeup by rank

Academics at each current rank
Series: value.UnknownUnknown 1101RankAcademics

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.Jacques Khalip · Marc RedfieldJacques Khalip · Marc Redfield 11Kevin McLaughlin · Marc RedfieldKevin McLaughlin · Marc Redfield 11Whitney Trettien · Zachary LesserWhitney Trettien · Zachary Lesser 1101PairShared works

The pairs of the 265 selected academics who share the most of these works. 3 of the 3,204 selected works are held by two of them, making 3 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.