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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Stephanie Newell

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RankDistinguished
As ofCV
DepartmentYale English
UniversityYale
FieldEnglish

Totals

Publications51
Citations836
h-index14 · OpenAlex citations of CV works
Citations per year in post—
Years in postno first year on the CV

Coverage

Works with a count39 of 51
Share76%

Positions

George M. Bodman Professor of English Literat…—

Top venues 24 venues

The 8 holding the most of these works; 16 more hold at least one.

Figshare5
Research in African Literatures5
Africa4
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature3
Journal of Postcolonial Writing2
Social Dynamics2
Boydell and Brewer eBooks1
Current Writing1

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 51 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
2013The Power to Name: A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa—book147
2001Readings in African Popular FictionThe International Journal of African Historical Studiesedited volume116
2000Ghanaian Popular Fiction: ‘Thrilling Discoveries in Conjugal Life,’Figsharebook110
2006West African Literatures: Ways of Reading—book80
2011Articulating Empire: Newspaper Readerships in Colonial West AfricaNew Formationsarticle50
2008Corresponding with the City: Self-Help Literature in Urban West AfricaJournal of Postcolonial Writingarticle37
2002Paracolonial Networks: Some Speculations on Local Readerships in Colonial West AfricaInterventionsarticle34
2005Devotion and Domesticity: The Reconfiguration of Gender in Popular Christian Pamphlets from Ghana and NigeriaJournal of Religion in Africaarticle32
2002Literary Culture in Colonial GhanaIndiana University Press eBooksbook26
1997Making up their own Minds: Readers, Interpretation and the Difference of View in Ghanaian Popular NarrativesAfricaarticle26
2010Something to Hide? Anonymity and Pseudonyms in the Colonial West African PressThe Journal of Commonwealth Literaturearticle21
2006The Forger’s Tale: The Search for OdeziakuProject Muse (Johns Hopkins University)book21
2009Introduction: Postcolonial Masculinities and the Politics of VisibilityJournal of Postcolonial Writingarticle19
2020Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos—book14
2016Paradoxes of Press Freedom in Colonial West AfricaMedia Historyarticle13
1996From the Brink of Oblivion: The Anxious Masculinism in Nigerian Market LiteraturesFigsharearticle12
2009Newspapers, New Spaces, New Writers: The First World War and Print Culture in Colonial GhanaResearch in African Literaturesarticle10
2016Life Writing in the Colonial Archives: The Case of Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904-96) of Colonial NigeriaLife Writingarticle7
2008Dirty Whites: “Ruffian-Writing” in Colonial West AfricaResearch in African Literaturesarticle7
2008An Introduction to the Writings of J. G. Mullen, an African Clerk, in the Gold Coast Leader, 1916–1919Africaarticle7
2011Local Cosmopolitans in Colonial West AfricaThe Journal of Commonwealth Literaturearticle6
2000Redefining Mimicry: Quoting Techniques and the Role of Readers in Locally Published Ghanaian FictionResearch in African Literaturesarticle6
2017The Last Laugh: African Audience Responses to Colonial Health Propaganda FilmsThe Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiryarticle4
2004Mabel Dove-Danquah: Selected Writings of a Pioneer West African Feminist—edited volume4
2001Literary Activism in Colonial Ghana: A Newspaper-Novel by ‘A Native.’Current Writingarticle4
1997Petrified Masculinities: Contemporary Nigerian Popular Literatures by MenThe Journal of Popular Culturearticle4
2023Newsprint Literature & Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s–1960sBoydell and Brewer eBooksbook3
2021The Work of Repetition in 1960s Nigerian Epistolary PamphletsJournal of African Cultural Studiesarticle3
2020Newsprint Worlds and Reading Publics in Colonial ContextsItinerarioarticle2
2020Graphic Fictions: Reader Research and the Making of a Comic Strip in 1950s ‘British West Africa’Research in African Literaturesarticle2
2018Screening Dirt: Colonial Film Audiences and the Problem of SpectatorshipSocial Dynamicsarticle2
2002Marita, or the Folly of Love: A Novel by “A Native”Medical Entomology and Zoologybook2
1997Re-placing the Postcolonial Nation: Narration, Nationalism and Satire in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s The Autumn of the PatriarchLA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales…article2
1995Conflict and Transformation in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power, Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind and A Bewitched CrossroadThe Journal of Commonwealth Literaturearticle2
1996Representations of Women in Popular Fiction by Nigerian MenFigsharearticle1
2004Fragments of Oscar Wilde in Colonial NigeriaEnglish Literature in Transition 1880-1920article0
2000Popular Publishing in Nigeria and Ghana: Production Processes and Marketing Techniques in the Non-Textbook SectorFigsharearticle0
1998Those Mean and Empty-Headed Men: The Shifting Representations of Wealth in Two Ghanaian Popular NovelsFigsharearticle0
1992The Other God: Salman Rushdie’s ‘New’ AestheticLiterature & Historyarticle0
2020Special Issue: Environmental Transformations—edited volume—
2018Double Special Issue: The Cultural Politics of Dirt in AfricaSocial Dynamicsedited volume—
2018Henry Ofori, Interviewed by Stephanie Newell—article—
2017Special Issue: Ken Saro-Wiwa as Public IntellectualResearch in African Literaturesedited volume—
2016African Print Cultures: Newspapers and Their Publics in the Twentieth Century—edited volume—
2014Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday—edited volume—
2008An Extract from ‘My Experience in Cameroons During the War’ by J. G. MullenAfricaarticle—
2004J. M. Stuart-Young: The Englishman who Married a Nigerian MermaidAfricaarticle—
1999Du marché de la littérature à la ‘littérature de marché.’—article—
1997Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa—edited volume—
1996Images of African and Caribbean Women—edited volume—
1995Images of African Women—edited volume—