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

Every graph on this site

Publications

  • Ranking Ranked table
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work
  • Works published per year Lines over years
    • Measure: Total, Mean per academic, Median per academic
    • Calendar year or years since PhD
    • In each year or cumulative
  • Citations received per year Lines over years
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work, Mean per academic, Median per academic
    • In each year or cumulative
  • Citation distribution Bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations
  • Citations by age of work Lines over years
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work
  • Publication type mix Ranked bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
  • Top venues Ranked bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications

Academicshere

Departments

  • Ranking Ranked table
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work, Mean per academic, Median per academic, Formula
  • Publications over time Lines over years
    • Measure: Total, Mean per academic, Median per academic, Formula
    • Calendar year or years since PhD
    • In each year or cumulative
  • Citations over time Lines over years
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations
    • Measure: Total, Mean per academic, Median per academic, Formula
    • In each year or cumulative
  • Makeup by tenure track Stacked bars
  • Output by rank Grouped bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work, Mean per academic, Median per academic, Formula
  • Academics ranked against academics Grouped bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
    • How many ranks (opens on 5)
  • Years to promotion Grouped bars
  • Journals used Stacked bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications

Journals

Fields

  • Ranking Ranked table
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work, Mean per academic, Median per academic
  • Departments by field Bars
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work, Mean per academic, Median per academic
  • University rollup Ranked bars
  • Coverage by field Ranked bars

Trackademia

Search the whole site

Search a person, a department, a journal or the title of a work. A person’s name brings up their profile, their publications, their department and the journals they publish in.

Value Measure

Academics

Citations per year in post (from the first professorial appointment, else the PhD year)
1 Alastair Iain Johnston Harvard Government · Research · 33 years in post 26.0

857 citations over 10 of 13 works (77% carry a count). 1 of 1 academics have at least one counted work. A work with no citation count is unknown here, never a zero.

Publications per year

Works published in each year
Each point

One line for each academic the view is about, by the year each work was published; an undated work is in no year. A work two of them share counts for each of them.

What these filters select, per academic not what the graph divided by
Academic Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Alastair Iain Johnston 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 13 10/13 0.7692307692307693%
  • Over the academics these filters select, so a filtered page describes the academics it selected and not the whole department.
  • A row with nothing held draws no mark above: the graph is quiet there because the evidence is missing, not because the work is.
  • What there was to draw from, not what the graph divided by - the graph states its own denominator above.
  • A Scholar profile is attached when at least 3 of the CV titles are found on it, or 30% of them are; one at another institution or under a different name needs 10 titles, and a profile far larger than the CV that holds only a small part of it is refused. Its articles are then checked one by one: what is not a work, or not by this person, is not counted.

Citations per year

Citations received in each year
Value Each point

One line for each academic the view is about. Citations received in each year by the works these filters select. A year no record covers is a gap, never a year of no citations.

What these filters select, per academic not what the graph divided by
Academic Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Alastair Iain Johnston 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 13 10/13 0.7692307692307693%
  • Over the academics these filters select, so a filtered page describes the academics it selected and not the whole department.
  • A row with nothing held draws no mark above: the graph is quiet there because the evidence is missing, not because the work is.
  • What there was to draw from, not what the graph divided by - the graph states its own denominator above.
  • A Scholar profile is attached when at least 3 of the CV titles are found on it, or 30% of them are; one at another institution or under a different name needs 10 titles, and a profile far larger than the CV that holds only a small part of it is refused. Its articles are then checked one by one: what is not a work, or not by this person, is not counted.

h-index

Academics at each h-index
Series: Academics.0140+ Academics 1140+Academicsh-index

The verified Scholar profile’s h-index where there is one, else computed from the OpenAlex citations of the academic’s CV works (definitions section 6): Scholar for 1 academic. Never OpenAlex’s author-level figure, and no filter here moves it.

What these filters select, over everything selected not what the graph divided by
Selected Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Everything selected 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 13 10/13 0.7692307692307693%
  • Over the academics these filters select, so a filtered page describes the academics it selected and not the whole department.
  • A row with nothing held draws no mark above: the graph is quiet there because the evidence is missing, not because the work is.
  • What there was to draw from, not what the graph divided by - the graph states its own denominator above.
  • A Scholar profile is attached when at least 3 of the CV titles are found on it, or 30% of them are; one at another institution or under a different name needs 10 titles, and a profile far larger than the CV that holds only a small part of it is refused. Its articles are then checked one by one: what is not a work, or not by this person, is not counted.

Makeup by rank

Academics at each current rank
Series: value.ResearchResearch 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 publication type moves it.

What these filters select, over everything selected not what the graph divided by
Selected Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Everything selected 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 13 10/13 0.7692307692307693%
  • Over the academics these filters select, so a filtered page describes the academics it selected and not the whole department.
  • A row with nothing held draws no mark above: the graph is quiet there because the evidence is missing, not because the work is.
  • What there was to draw from, not what the graph divided by - the graph states its own denominator above.
  • A Scholar profile is attached when at least 3 of the CV titles are found on it, or 30% of them are; one at another institution or under a different name needs 10 titles, and a profile far larger than the CV that holds only a small part of it is refused. Its articles are then checked one by one: what is not a work, or not by this person, is not counted.

Top collaborators

Works two of the selected academics both hold

Nothing to draw under these filters.

None of the 1 academics these filters select shares a selected work with another of them. That is a fact about this selection and not about their collaborators: a work written with somebody outside it is a work this page counts and cannot pair.

What these filters select, over everything selected not what the graph divided by
Selected Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Everything selected 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 13 10/13 0.7692307692307693%
  • Over the academics these filters select, so a filtered page describes the academics it selected and not the whole department.
  • A row with nothing held draws no mark above: the graph is quiet there because the evidence is missing, not because the work is.
  • What there was to draw from, not what the graph divided by - the graph states its own denominator above.
  • A Scholar profile is attached when at least 3 of the CV titles are found on it, or 30% of them are; one at another institution or under a different name needs 10 titles, and a profile far larger than the CV that holds only a small part of it is refused. Its articles are then checked one by one: what is not a work, or not by this person, is not counted.
First Second

Pick two academics to see how many of the selected works they share.