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.
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Elaine Scarry

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Academic

RankDistinguished
As of2016 · CV
DepartmentHarvard English
UniversityHarvard
FieldEnglish

Totals

Publications38
Citations1,347
h-index13 · OpenAlex citations of CV works
Citations per year in post46.4
Years in post29 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count14 of 38
Share37%

Positions

Harvard College Professor, Harvard University2011–2016
Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and t…1997–
Senior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Ha…1994–

Top venues 12 venues

The 8 holding the most of these works; 4 more hold at least one.

Boston Review9
Representations4
The New York Review of Books3
James Joyce quarterly1
Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks1
Medical Entomology and Zoology1
New Literary History1
Princeton University Press eBooks1

Publications per year

Works this academic published in each year, by the year each work appeared; an undated work is in no year, and a work two colleagues wrote counts for each of them. The kind, works and year filters decide which works are here at all.

Citations per year

No drawing here: no year the filters keep carries a citation figure for this academic.

Publications 38 works

Every work these filters select, most cited first and the works with no count at the end: a work nobody has a figure for is unknown, never a zero to be ranked among the works that have one, and it prints an em dash. Each figure is that work’s own citations - Scholar’s count where there is one, else OpenAlex’s - and is not weighted.

YearTitleVenueKindCitations
1999On Beauty and Being JustPrinceton University Press eBooksbook396
1988Literature and the Body: Essays on Populations and PersonsMedical Entomology and Zoologybook203
1999Dreaming by the Book—article190
1994Resisting Representation—book168
2000Memory, Brain, and Belief—edited volume142
1990Consent and the Body: Injury, Departure, and DesireNew Literary Historyarticle75
1995On Vivacity: The Difference between Daydreaming and Imagining-Under-Authorial-InstructionRepresentationsarticle54
1983Work and the Body in Hardy and Other Nineteenth-Century NovelistsRepresentationsarticle39
1997Imagining Flowers: Perceptual Mimesis (Particularly Delphinium)Representationsarticle32
2016Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare’s Sonnets—book16
2010Rule of Law, Misrule of MenThe MIT Press eBooksbook13
1991War and the Social Contract: Nuclear Policy, Distribution, and the Right to Bear ArmsUniversity of Pennsylvania Law Reviewarticle13
1995Fins de siècle : English poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990Johns Hopkins University Press eBooksbook5
1985Willow-bark and red poppies: Advertising the remedies for physical painWord & Imagearticle1
2024The Extortionist Doctrine: On the Persistence of U.S. Nuclear Deterrence PolicyBoston Reviewarticle—
2024The Rhapsodic Critic: A Response to Jonathan Kramnick’s Criticism and Truth—article—
2021Memorial Days: the Racial Underpinnings of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings—article—
2020The Racist Foundation of Nuclear ArchitectureBoston Reviewarticle—
2019Sleeping Through the AlarmBoston Reviewarticle—
2017Nuclear Citizenship—article—
2014Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing between Democracy and Doom—book—
2012Poetry Changed the World: Injury and the Ethics of ReadingBoston Reviewarticle—
2011Extreme InjuryBoston Reviewarticle—
2011Thinking in an Emergency—book—
2008Presidential CrimesBoston Reviewarticle—
2006Rules of Engagement: Why Military Honor MattersBoston Reviewarticle—
2004Resisting the U.S.A. Patriot ActBoston Reviewarticle—
2003Who Defended the Country? A New Democracy Forum of Citizenship, National Security, and 9/11—book—
2002Citizenship in EmergencyBoston Reviewarticle—
2000Beauty and the Scholar’s Duty to Justice—article—
2000Swissair 111, TWA 800, and Electromagnetic InterferenceThe New York Review of Booksarticle—
2000The Fall of EgyptAir 990The New York Review of Booksarticle—
1998The Fall of TWA 800: the Possibility of Electromagnetic InterferenceThe New York Review of Booksarticle—
1992The Made-Up and the Made-RealYale journal of criticism/˜The œYale journal of criticismarticle—
1985The Structure of WarRepresentationsarticle—
1985The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World—book—
1980Enemy and Father: Comic Equilibrium in Vanity Fair—article—
1971Six Ways to Kill a Blackbird or Any Other Intentional Object: Samuel Beckett's Method of MeaningJames Joyce quarterlyarticle—