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 Chemistryaverage of the other 7 departments

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 Chemistryaverage of the other 7 departments

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

Makeup by rank

Academics at each rank
Series: Distinguished, Full, Assistant, Unknown.05101520Brown Chemistry Distinguished 6Brown Chemistry Full 6Brown Chemistry Assistant 5Brown Chemistry Unknown 219Brown ChemistryAcademicsDepartment

DistinguishedFullAssistantUnknown

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.0.02,000.04,000.06,000.08,000.010,000.0Distinguished Brown Chemistry over 6 academics 5,162.05,162.0Full Brown Chemistry over 6 academics 3,485.03,485.0Assistant Brown Chemistry over 5 academics 1,278.01,278.0Other Brown Chemistry over 2 academics 8,356.08,356.0DistinguishedFullAssistantOtherMedian citations per academicRank

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

Brown Chemistry against the average of the other 7
Value Ranks
Series: Brown Chemistry, average of 7.Brown Chemistryaverage of 71Rank 1 Brown Chemistry Shouheng Sun 91966Shouheng Sun91966Rank 1 average of 7 mean of 7 7378673786mean of 72Rank 2 Brown Chemistry Lai-Sheng Wang 43728Lai-Sheng Wang43728Rank 2 average of 7 mean of 7 4435144351mean of 73Rank 3 Brown Chemistry Ming Xian 16472Ming Xian16472Rank 3 average of 7 mean of 7 3524635246mean of 74Rank 4 Brown Chemistry Ou Chen 14829Ou Chen14829Rank 4 average of 7 mean of 7 2743927439mean of 75Rank 5 Brown Chemistry Paul Williard 7978Paul Williard7978Rank 5 average of 7 mean of 7 2339623396mean of 76Rank 6 Brown Chemistry Richard Stratt 5909Richard Stratt5909Rank 6 average of 7 mean of 7 1961219612mean of 77Rank 7 Brown Chemistry Yusong Bai 4941Yusong Bai4941Rank 7 average of 7 mean of 7 1568915689mean of 78Rank 8 Brown Chemistry Peter Weber 4415Peter Weber4415Rank 8 average of 7 mean of 7 1332113321mean of 79Rank 9 Brown Chemistry Eunsuk Kim 3496Eunsuk Kim3496Rank 9 average of 7 mean of 7 1014810148mean of 710Rank 10 Brown Chemistry Christoph Rose-Petruck 3474Christoph Rose-Petruck3474Rank 10 average of 7 mean of 7 92469246mean of 711Rank 11 Brown Chemistry Matthew Zimmt 2725Matthew Zimmt2725Rank 11 average of 7 mean of 7 70857085mean of 712Rank 12 Brown Chemistry Brenda Rubenstein 2360Brenda Rubenstein2360Rank 12 average of 7 mean of 7 61526152mean of 713Rank 13 Brown Chemistry Sarah Delaney 1697Sarah Delaney1697Rank 13 average of 7 mean of 7 35943594mean of 714Rank 14 Brown Chemistry Amit Basu 1494Amit Basu1494Rank 14 average of 7 mean of 7 29402940mean of 715Rank 15 Brown Chemistry Jerome Robinson 1490Jerome Robinson1490Rank 15 average of 7 mean of 7 25292529mean of 7Rank020000400006000080000020000400006000080000Citations

Each of this department's academics against the mean academic at the same rank in the others, so the comparison is like for like all the way down the list. The right side says how many departments reach that rank: a deep rank only two of them reach is a mean of two. The first 15 ranks of 19 are drawn.

Years to promotion

From the PhD to each rank
Series: Brown Chemistry.0.05.010.015.020.0Associate Brown Chemistry median of 12 academics 9.09.0Full or distinguished Brown Chemistry median of 11 academics 16.016.0AssociateFull or distinguishedYears since the PhDRank reached

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.The Journal of Chemical PhysicsThe Journal of Chemical Physics 244244Journal of the American Chemical SocietyJournal of the American Chemical Society 234234The Journal of Physical Chemistry AThe Journal of Physical Chemistry A 122122Angewandte Chemie International EditionAngewandte Chemie International Edition 6565Nano LettersNano Letters 4343Chemical Physics LettersChemical Physics Letters 3636Inorganic ChemistryInorganic Chemistry 3434The Journal of Organic ChemistryThe Journal of Organic Chemistry 3333NanoscaleNanoscale 3232Physical Review LettersPhysical Review Letters 3131The Journal of Physical Chemistry CThe Journal of Physical Chemistry C 3131Physical Chemistry Chemical PhysicsPhysical Chemistry Chemical Physics 3030050100150200JournalWorks

The twelve venues highest on this reading, of 295.