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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Melissa E. Sanchez

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Academic

RankDistinguished
As of2025 · CV
DepartmentPenn English
UniversityPenn
FieldEnglish

Totals

Publications28
Citations308
h-index11 · OpenAlex citations of CV works
Citations per year in post14.0
Years in post22 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count23 of 28
Share82%

Positions

Director, University of Pennsylvania2021–2024
Director, University of Pennsylvania2021–2024
Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comp…2019–
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature…2017–2019
Associate Professor of English, University of…2012–2019
Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor of…2010–2012
Core Faculty in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’…2006–
Assistant Professor of English, University of…2006–2010
and 2 more

Top venues 14 venues

The 8 holding the most of these works; 6 more hold at least one.

Spenser Studies A Renaissance Poetry Annual5
English Literary Renaissance3
ELH2
Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies2
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Asso…2
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks1
Criticism1
Eighteenth-Century Studies1

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 28 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
2011Erotic Subjects: The Sexuality of Politics in Early Modern English LiteratureOxford University Press eBooksbook66
2012‘Use Me But as Your Spaniel’: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Early Modern SexualitiesPMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…article51
2019Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love TraditionProject Muse (Johns Hopkins University)book39
2008Seduction and Service in The TempestStudies in philologyarticle26
2021What Were Women Writers?Criticismarticle21
2019Shakespeare and Queer TheoryBloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooksbook21
2014‘What Hath Night to Do with Sleep?’: Biopolitics in Milton’s MaskTigerPrints (Clemson University)article19
2013‘In Myself the Smart I Try’: Female Promiscuity in Astrophil and StellaELHarticle16
2007The Politics of Masochism in Mary Wroth’s UraniaELHarticle13
2005Libertinism and Romance in Rochester’s PoetryEighteenth-Century Studiesarticle11
2012‘Modesty or Comeliness’: The Predicament of Reform Theology in Spenser’s Amoretti and EpithalamionRenascencearticle5
2015Spenser and ‘the Human’: An IntroductionSpenser Studies A Renaissance Poetry Annualarticle4
2007Fantasies of Friendship in The Faerie Queene, Book IVEnglish Literary Renaissancearticle4
2016Afterword: This Field that Is Not OneJournal for Early Modern Cultural Studiesarticle3
2015Posthuman Spenser?Spenser Studies A Renaissance Poetry Annualarticle3
2020Milton’s Genderqueer ChristianityMilton Studiesarticle2
2019Transdevotion: Race, Gender, and Christian UniversalismJournal for Early Modern Cultural Studiesarticle2
2023‘Spenser with Julia Serano: Colonial Cacophony and Early Modern Trans StudiesSpenser Studies A Renaissance Poetry Annualarticle1
2019Woke Renaissance Studies?English Literary Renaissancearticle1
2025The Way They Read Then: Early Modern English EroticaEnglish Literary Renaissancearticle0
2025The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies—edited volume0
2015Spenser and “the Human.”Spenser Studies A Renaissance Poetry Annualedited volume0
2013Early Modern Sexualities: Two ViewsPMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…article0
2021Courtesy, Whiteness, and the ‘We’ of Spenser StudiesSpenser Studies A Renaissance Poetry Annualarticle—
2016Forum: Disciplines, Institutions—and Desires—article—
2016Desiring History and Historicizing Desire—edited volume—
2016Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies: Gender, Race, and Sexuality—edited volume—
2004‘The True Vowed Sacrifice of Unfeigned Love’: Eros and Authority in The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia—article—