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
Value Statistic Unit

Departments

Citations per academic
1 Harvard Chemistry Harvard · 22 academics 19,670
2 Princeton Chemistry Princeton · 32 academics 17,178
3 Yale Chemistry Yale · 25 academics 16,458
4 Brown Chemistry Brown · 19 academics 11,027
5 Penn Chemistry Penn · 30 academics 9,020
6 Columbia Chemistry Columbia · 24 academics 8,529
7 Cornell Chemistry Cornell · 31 academics 5,094
8 Dartmouth Chemistry Dartmouth · 15 academics 4,161

2,248,951 citations over 13,268 of 15,762 works (84% carry a count). 140 of 198 academics have at least one counted work. A work with no citation count is unknown here, never a zero.

Publications over time

Works published in each year
Statistic Unit Each point

Brown ChemistryDartmouth ChemistryColumbia ChemistryCornell ChemistryHarvard ChemistryPenn ChemistryPrinceton ChemistryYale Chemistry

Every selected work, by the year it was published. An undated work is in no year.

Citations over time

Citations received in each year
Value Statistic Unit Each point

Brown ChemistryDartmouth ChemistryColumbia ChemistryCornell ChemistryHarvard ChemistryPenn ChemistryPrinceton ChemistryYale Chemistry

Citations received in each year, from the academics’ verified Scholar profiles.

Makeup by rank

Academics at each rank
Series: Distinguished, Full, Associate, Assistant, Postdoc, Unknown.010203040Brown Chemistry Distinguished 6Brown Chemistry Full 6Brown Chemistry Assistant 5Brown Chemistry Unknown 219Dartmouth Chemistry Distinguished 2Dartmouth Chemistry Full 1Dartmouth Chemistry Assistant 2Dartmouth Chemistry Unknown 1015Columbia Chemistry Distinguished 2Columbia Chemistry Full 3Columbia Chemistry Assistant 2Columbia Chemistry Unknown 1724Cornell Chemistry Distinguished 1Cornell Chemistry Full 3Cornell Chemistry Associate 1Cornell Chemistry Assistant 1Cornell Chemistry Unknown 2531Harvard Chemistry Distinguished 7Harvard Chemistry Full 3Harvard Chemistry Associate 1Harvard Chemistry Unknown 1122Penn Chemistry Distinguished 3Penn Chemistry Full 4Penn Chemistry Associate 1Penn Chemistry Assistant 2Penn Chemistry Unknown 2030Princeton Chemistry Distinguished 9Princeton Chemistry Full 5Princeton Chemistry Associate 1Princeton Chemistry Assistant 5Princeton Chemistry Unknown 1232Yale Chemistry Distinguished 6Yale Chemistry Full 2Yale Chemistry Associate 2Yale Chemistry Assistant 1Yale Chemistry Postdoc 1Yale Chemistry Unknown 1325Brown ChemistryColumbia ChemistryHarvard ChemistryYale ChemistryAcademicsDepartment

DistinguishedFullAssociateAssistantPostdocUnknown

The current rank of every academic the filters keep (definitions section 7).

Output by rank

Median citations per academic at each rank
Value Statistic
Series: Brown Chemistry, Dartmouth Chemistry, Columbia Chemistry, Cornell Chemistry, Harvard Chemistry, Penn Chemistry, Princeton Chemistry, Yale Chemistry.0.010,000.020,000.030,000.040,000.0Distinguished Brown Chemistry over 6 academics 5,162.0Distinguished Dartmouth Chemistry over 2 academics 6,201.5Distinguished Columbia Chemistry over 2 academics 31,919.0Distinguished Cornell Chemistry over 1 academics 17,601.0Distinguished Harvard Chemistry over 7 academics 11,698.0Distinguished Penn Chemistry over 3 academics 11,117.0Distinguished Princeton Chemistry over 9 academics 11,736.0Distinguished Yale Chemistry over 6 academics 18,956.5Full Brown Chemistry over 6 academics 3,485.0Full Dartmouth Chemistry over 1 academics 2,508.0Full Columbia Chemistry over 3 academics 2,291.0Full Cornell Chemistry over 3 academics 7,068.0Full Harvard Chemistry over 3 academics 11,648.0Full Penn Chemistry over 4 academics 22,586.5Full Princeton Chemistry over 5 academics 37.0Full Yale Chemistry over 2 academics 8,039.5Associate Cornell Chemistry over 1 academics 5,732.0Associate Harvard Chemistry over 1 academics 18,894.0Associate Penn Chemistry over 1 academics 5,295.0Associate Princeton Chemistry over 1 academics 2,637.0Associate Yale Chemistry over 2 academics 5,456.0Assistant Brown Chemistry over 5 academics 1,278.0Assistant Dartmouth Chemistry over 2 academics 2,688.0Assistant Columbia Chemistry over 2 academics 2,393.0Assistant Cornell Chemistry over 1 academics 34,639.0Assistant Penn Chemistry over 2 academics 1,786.0Assistant Princeton Chemistry over 5 academics 1,651.0Assistant Yale Chemistry over 1 academics 1,036.0Unknown Brown Chemistry over 2 academics 8,356.0Unknown Dartmouth Chemistry over 10 academics 4,101.5Unknown Columbia Chemistry over 17 academics 3,737.0Unknown Cornell Chemistry over 25 academics 0.0Unknown Harvard Chemistry over 11 academics 3,652.0Unknown Penn Chemistry over 20 academics 3,209.0Unknown Princeton Chemistry over 12 academics 196.0Unknown Yale Chemistry over 13 academics 877.0Other Yale Chemistry over 1 academics 1,696.0DistinguishedFullAssociateAssistantUnknownOtherMedian citations per academicRank

Brown ChemistryDartmouth ChemistryColumbia ChemistryCornell ChemistryHarvard ChemistryPenn ChemistryPrinceton ChemistryYale Chemistry

Each rank read on its own, so a department of thirty and one of sixty are comparable at the same career stage.

Academics ranked against academics

Each department's rank-n academic, citations
Value Ranks
Series: Brown Chemistry, Dartmouth Chemistry, Columbia Chemistry, Cornell Chemistry, Harvard Chemistry, Penn Chemistry, Princeton Chemistry, Yale Chemistry.0500001000001500002000001 Brown Chemistry Shouheng Sun 919661 Dartmouth Chemistry Katherine A. Mirica 99091 Columbia Chemistry Xiaoyang Zhu 502071 Cornell Chemistry Robert A. DiStasio Jr. 346391 Harvard Chemistry David R. Liu 1020251 Penn Chemistry Abraham Nitzan 406061 Princeton Chemistry Roberto Car 1195751 Yale Chemistry William Jorgensen 1595422 Brown Chemistry Lai-Sheng Wang 437282 Dartmouth Chemistry Ivan Aprahamian 90362 Columbia Chemistry Colin P. Nuckolls 328002 Cornell Chemistry Barbara A. Baird 176012 Harvard Chemistry Xiaowei Zhuang 789922 Penn Chemistry Andrew M. Rappe 367932 Princeton Chemistry David MacMillan 771732 Yale Chemistry Hailiang Wang 580653 Brown Chemistry Ming Xian 164723 Dartmouth Chemistry Miguel I. Gonzalez 80833 Columbia Chemistry Timothy C Berkelbach 207133 Cornell Chemistry Frank C. Schroeder 157293 Harvard Chemistry Hongkun Park 550763 Penn Chemistry Dirk Trauner 310333 Princeton Chemistry Joshua Rabinowitz 620043 Yale Chemistry Jon Ellman 540834 Brown Chemistry Ou Chen 148294 Dartmouth Chemistry Dale F. Mierke 69444 Columbia Chemistry Tomislav Rovis 204194 Cornell Chemistry Bruce Ganem 153694 Harvard Chemistry Suyang Xu 338704 Penn Chemistry David W. Christianson 243124 Princeton Chemistry Salvatore Torquato 616614 Yale Chemistry Gary Brudvig 295005 Brown Chemistry Paul Williard 79785 Dartmouth Chemistry David S. Glueck 54875 Columbia Chemistry Luis M. Campos 166175 Cornell Chemistry Jeremy M. Baskin 127375 Harvard Chemistry Jeffrey R. Long 285845 Penn Chemistry Tianquan “Tim” Lian 241935 Princeton Chemistry Christopher J. Chang 524705 Yale Chemistry Patrick Holland 236836 Brown Chemistry Richard Stratt 59096 Dartmouth Chemistry Paul Robustelli 44646 Columbia Chemistry Virginia W. Cornish 136316 Cornell Chemistry Kyle M. Lancaster 101486 Harvard Chemistry Eric Heller 260796 Penn Chemistry Patrick J. Walsh 209806 Princeton Chemistry Tom Muir 404726 Yale Chemistry James Mayer 215087 Brown Chemistry Yusong Bai 49417 Dartmouth Chemistry Dean E. Wilcox 44237 Columbia Chemistry Ann E. McDermott 119187 Cornell Chemistry Peng Chen 89957 Harvard Chemistry Eugene I. Shakhnovich 250947 Penn Chemistry Tobias Baumgart 127577 Princeton Chemistry Sharon Hammes-Schiffer 324037 Yale Chemistry Mark Johnson 142308 Brown Chemistry Peter Weber 44158 Dartmouth Chemistry Jane E. G. Lipson 37808 Columbia Chemistry Xavier Roy 105938 Cornell Chemistry Pamela Chang 86308 Harvard Chemistry Jarad Mason 188948 Penn Chemistry Jeffrey D. Winkler 111178 Princeton Chemistry Paul Chirik 286098 Yale Chemistry Nilay Hazari 116249 Brown Chemistry Eunsuk Kim 34969 Dartmouth Chemistry F. Jon Kull 33679 Columbia Chemistry Laura J. Kaufman 59029 Cornell Chemistry Yao Yang 76159 Harvard Chemistry Adam Cohen 150899 Penn Chemistry Squire J. Booker 97159 Princeton Chemistry Michael Hecht 224249 Yale Chemistry Jason M. Crawford 692410 Brown Chemistry Christoph Rose-Petruck 347410 Dartmouth Chemistry Michael J. Ragusa 292610 Columbia Chemistry Angelo Cacciuto 588610 Cornell Chemistry Tristan Lambert 706810 Harvard Chemistry Joonho Lee 1188810 Penn Chemistry Eric J. Schelter 909610 Princeton Chemistry Joseph Subotnik 2186910 Yale Chemistry Timothy Newhouse 599111 Brown Chemistry Matthew Zimmt 272511 Dartmouth Chemistry Jimmy Wu 250811 Columbia Chemistry Ruben L Gonzalez Jr 518611 Cornell Chemistry Phillip Milner 573211 Harvard Chemistry Emily Balskus 1169811 Penn Chemistry Elizabeth Rhoades 752511 Princeton Chemistry Robert Knowles 1173611 Yale Chemistry Sarah Slavoff 521012 Brown Chemistry Brenda Rubenstein 236012 Dartmouth Chemistry Wenlin Zhang 91212 Columbia Chemistry Diptarka Hait 432112 Cornell Chemistry Gregory Sion Ezra 423712 Harvard Chemistry Kang-Kuen Ni 1164812 Penn Chemistry Ivan J. Dmochowski 661812 Princeton Chemistry Leslie Schoop 1040912 Yale Chemistry Stacy Malaker 492113 Brown Chemistry Sarah Delaney 169713 Dartmouth Chemistry Xin Qi 57913 Columbia Chemistry Neel H. Shah 373713 Cornell Chemistry John A. Marohn 368813 Harvard Chemistry Brian Liau 365213 Penn Chemistry Marsha I. Lester 640713 Princeton Chemistry Ralph Kleiner 263713 Yale Chemistry E. Chui-Ying Yan 445514 Brown Chemistry Amit Basu 149414 Dartmouth Chemistry Ekaterina V. Pletneva 014 Columbia Chemistry Jonathan S. Owen 229114 Cornell Chemistry Nandini Ananth 250314 Harvard Chemistry Richard Y. Liu 347314 Penn Chemistry E. James Petersson 626914 Princeton Chemistry William M. Jacobs 236614 Yale Chemistry Seth Herzon 368115 Brown Chemistry Jerome Robinson 149015 Dartmouth Chemistry Mahima Sneha 015 Columbia Chemistry Makeda Tekle-Smith 46515 Cornell Chemistry Marissa Lavagnino 229515 Harvard Chemistry Christina Woo 336815 Penn Chemistry Kai Chen 612815 Princeton Chemistry Lilia Xie 180615 Yale Chemistry Tianyu Zhu 3638123456789101112131415CitationsRank

Brown ChemistryDartmouth ChemistryColumbia ChemistryCornell ChemistryHarvard ChemistryPenn ChemistryPrinceton ChemistryYale Chemistry

Rank 15 of 32 at the deepest; 8 of 8 departments still have somebody at the last rank drawn. Rank n of one department is not otherwise related to rank n of another - what this compares is the shape of the lists.

Years to promotion

From the PhD to each rank
Series: Brown Chemistry, Dartmouth Chemistry, Columbia Chemistry, Cornell Chemistry, Harvard Chemistry, Penn Chemistry, Princeton Chemistry, Yale Chemistry.0.05.010.015.020.0Associate Brown Chemistry median of 12 academics 9.09.0Associate Dartmouth Chemistry median of 3 academics 9.09.0Associate Columbia Chemistry median of 5 academics 8.08.0Associate Cornell Chemistry median of 3 academics 8.08.0Associate Harvard Chemistry median of 11 academics 7.07.0Associate Penn Chemistry median of 8 academics 9.09.0Associate Princeton Chemistry median of 10 academics 7.07.0Associate Yale Chemistry median of 10 academics 7.57.5Full or distinguished Brown Chemistry median of 11 academics 16.016.0Full or distinguished Dartmouth Chemistry median of 3 academics 16.016.0Full or distinguished Columbia Chemistry median of 5 academics 11.011.0Full or distinguished Cornell Chemistry median of 2 academics 12.012.0Full or distinguished Harvard Chemistry median of 10 academics 9.59.5Full or distinguished Penn Chemistry median of 7 academics 12.012.0Full or distinguished Princeton Chemistry median of 12 academics 10.010.0Full or distinguished Yale Chemistry median of 8 academics 10.010.0AssociateFull or distinguishedYears since the PhDRank reached

Brown ChemistryDartmouth ChemistryColumbia ChemistryCornell ChemistryHarvard ChemistryPenn ChemistryPrinceton ChemistryYale Chemistry

The median years from the PhD year a CV states to the first year it states that rank. An academic whose CV dates neither is in neither figure.

Journals used

Where these departments place work, by works
Value
Series: value.Journal of the American Chemical SocietyJournal of the American Chemical Society 2,1222,122The Journal of Chemical PhysicsThe Journal of Chemical Physics 1,1031,103Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 424424Angewandte Chemie International EditionAngewandte Chemie International Edition 409409Inorganic ChemistryInorganic Chemistry 296296The Journal of Physical Chemistry AThe Journal of Physical Chemistry A 290290ScienceScience 273273Chemical ScienceChemical Science 262262Physical Review LettersPhysical Review Letters 261261Organic LettersOrganic Letters 258258BiochemistryBiochemistry 251251Nature CommunicationsNature Communications 22622605001,0001,5002,000JournalWorks

The twelve venues highest on this reading, of 873.