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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Erica Edwards

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Academic

RankFull
As of2022 · CV
DepartmentYale English
UniversityYale
FieldEnglish

Totals

Publications16
Citations445
h-index8 · OpenAlex citations of CV works
Citations per year in post22.2
Years in post20 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count13 of 16
Share81%

Positions

Professor of African American Studies, Yale U…2022–
Associate Professor of English, Rutgers Unive…2017–2022
Presidential Term Chair in African American L…2017–2022
Associate Professor of English, University of…2012–2017
Assistant Professor of English, University of…2007–2012
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Will…2006–2007

Top venues 9 venues

The 8 holding the most of these works; 1 more hold at least one.

American Literary History3
South Atlantic Quarterly3
New York University Press eBooks2
African Identities1
American Quarterly1
Black Camera1
Callaloo1
differences1

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 16 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
2012Charisma and the Fictions of Black LeadershipUniversity of Minnesota Press eBooksbook212
2018Keywords for African American StudiesNew York University Press eBooksedited volume80
2015Sex after the Black Normaldifferencesarticle44
2011The Black President HokumAmerican Quarterlyarticle36
2013Of Cain and Abel: African American Literature and the Problem of Inheritance After 9/11American Literary Historyarticle26
2013Black Literature, Black Leadership: New Directions, New BoundariesSouth Atlantic Quarterlyarticle13
2012Tuning in to Precious: The Black Women’s Empowerment Adaptation and the Interruptions of the AbsurdBlack Cameraarticle12
2017The New Black Novel and The Long War on TerrorAmerican Literary Historyarticle9
2008Moses, Monster of the Mountain: Gendered Violence in Black Leadership’s Gothic TaleCallalooarticle6
2010Recapitulating the Yam: The Promise of African American Literary Studies at History’s EndAmerican Literary Historyarticle4
2013Through the Other Looking Glass: Kaleidoscope Aesthetics and the Optics of Black LeadershipAfrican Identitiesarticle2
2013‘Welcome Back to the Living’: Twilight Memories of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Contemporary American TelevisionSouth Atlantic Quarterlyarticle1
2021The Other Side of Terror: Black Women Writers and the Culture of U.S. EmpireNew York University Press eBooksbook0
2022Antic Form—article—
2020Incessant War—article—
2013Black Literature, Black LeadershipSouth Atlantic Quarterlyedited volume—