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 Dartmouth English Dartmouth · 28 academics 25
2 Princeton English Princeton · 29 academics 19
3 Columbia English Columbia · 46 academics 9
4 Yale English Yale · 39 academics 6
5 Harvard English Harvard · 25 academics 4
6 Penn English Penn · 32 academics 3
7 Brown English Brown · 28 academics 2
8 Cornell English Cornell · 38 academics 1

2,201 citations over 187 of 434 works (43% carry a count). 63 of 265 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 EnglishColumbia EnglishCornell EnglishDartmouth EnglishHarvard EnglishPenn EnglishPrinceton EnglishYale English

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 EnglishColumbia EnglishCornell EnglishDartmouth EnglishHarvard EnglishPenn EnglishPrinceton EnglishYale English

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

Makeup by rank

Academics at each rank
Series: Distinguished, Full, Associate, Assistant, Visiting, Unknown.01020304050Brown English Distinguished 9Brown English Full 7Brown English Associate 6Brown English Assistant 2Brown English Unknown 428Columbia English Distinguished 4Columbia English Full 3Columbia English Associate 1Columbia English Assistant 4Columbia English Unknown 3446Cornell English Distinguished 3Cornell English Full 4Cornell English Associate 11Cornell English Assistant 2Cornell English Visiting 1Cornell English Unknown 1738Dartmouth English Distinguished 2Dartmouth English Associate 2Dartmouth English Assistant 1Dartmouth English Unknown 2328Harvard English Distinguished 3Harvard English Full 3Harvard English Assistant 1Harvard English Unknown 1825Penn English Distinguished 6Penn English Associate 3Penn English Assistant 1Penn English Unknown 2232Princeton English Distinguished 2Princeton English Full 1Princeton English Assistant 1Princeton English Unknown 2529Yale English Distinguished 7Yale English Full 7Yale English Associate 4Yale English Assistant 8Yale English Unknown 1339Brown EnglishCornell EnglishHarvard EnglishYale EnglishAcademicsDepartment

DistinguishedFullAssociateAssistantVisitingUnknown

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 English, Columbia English, Cornell English, Dartmouth English, Harvard English, Penn English, Princeton English, Yale English.0.050.0100.0150.0200.0250.0Distinguished Brown English over 9 academics 0.0Distinguished Columbia English over 4 academics 27.5Distinguished Cornell English over 3 academics 0.0Distinguished Dartmouth English over 2 academics 213.5Distinguished Harvard English over 3 academics 0.0Distinguished Penn English over 6 academics 1.5Distinguished Princeton English over 2 academics 0.0Distinguished Yale English over 7 academics 0.0Full Brown English over 7 academics 0.0Full Columbia English over 3 academics 10.0Full Cornell English over 4 academics 0.0Full Harvard English over 3 academics 0.0Full Princeton English over 1 academics 0.0Full Yale English over 7 academics 1.0Associate Brown English over 6 academics 0.0Associate Columbia English over 1 academics 1.0Associate Cornell English over 11 academics 0.0Associate Dartmouth English over 2 academics 133.5Associate Penn English over 3 academics 3.0Associate Yale English over 4 academics 0.0Assistant Brown English over 2 academics 0.5Assistant Columbia English over 4 academics 3.0Assistant Cornell English over 2 academics 0.0Assistant Dartmouth English over 1 academics 0.0Assistant Harvard English over 1 academics 2.0Assistant Penn English over 1 academics 0.0Assistant Princeton English over 1 academics 18.0Assistant Yale English over 8 academics 1.0Unknown Brown English over 4 academics 0.0Unknown Columbia English over 34 academics 0.0Unknown Cornell English over 17 academics 0.0Unknown Dartmouth English over 23 academics 0.0Unknown Harvard English over 18 academics 0.0Unknown Penn English over 22 academics 0.0Unknown Princeton English over 25 academics 0.0Unknown Yale English over 13 academics 0.0Other Cornell English over 1 academics 0.0DistinguishedFullAssociateAssistantUnknownOtherMedian citations per academicRank

Brown EnglishColumbia EnglishCornell EnglishDartmouth EnglishHarvard EnglishPenn EnglishPrinceton EnglishYale English

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 English, Columbia English, Cornell English, Dartmouth English, Harvard English, Penn English, Princeton English, Yale English.01002003004005006001 Brown English Amanda Anderson 381 Columbia English Joseph R. Slaughter 1781 Cornell English Rebeca Hey-Colón 301 Dartmouth English Donald E. Pease 4271 Harvard English Martin Puchner 781 Penn English S. Pearl Brilmyer 631 Princeton English Rob Nixon 5031 Yale English Caleb Smith 1202 Brown English Kevin McLaughlin 62 Columbia English Jenny Davidson 962 Cornell English Lenora Warren 42 Dartmouth English James E. Dobson 2522 Harvard English Christopher Pexa 122 Penn English James English 202 Princeton English Paul Nadal 182 Yale English Jonathan Kramnick 443 Brown English James A. Kuzner 33 Columbia English Julie Stone Peters 523 Cornell English Adhy Kim 03 Dartmouth English Aden Evens 153 Harvard English Beth Blum 43 Penn English Julia Alekseyeva 103 Princeton English Zahid R. Chaudhary 133 Yale English Cajetan Iheka 334 Brown English Timothy Bewes 24 Columbia English Bruce Robbins 504 Cornell English Alexandra Kleeman 04 Dartmouth English Carolyn Dever 94 Harvard English Tara K. Menon 24 Penn English Sara Kazmi 34 Princeton English Robert Spoo 74 Yale English Sunny Xiang 175 Brown English Benjamin W. Parker 15 Columbia English Jennifer Wenzel 255 Cornell English Andrew Galloway 05 Dartmouth English Alexander Chee 05 Harvard English Amanda Claybaugh 05 Penn English Whitney Trettien 35 Princeton English Andrew Cole 05 Yale English John Durham Peters 96 Brown English Connie Scozzaro 16 Columbia English Dennis Yi Tenen 106 Cornell English Anna Shechtman 06 Dartmouth English Alysia Garrison 06 Harvard English Anna Wilson 06 Penn English Paul Saint-Amour 26 Princeton English Anne A. Cheng 06 Yale English Lloyd Alimboyao Sy 57 Brown English Daniel Kim 17 Columbia English Carlos Alonso Nugent 57 Cornell English Caroline Levine 07 Dartmouth English Andrew L. McCann 07 Harvard English Daniel Donoghue 07 Penn English Zachary Lesser 27 Princeton English Autumn Womack 07 Yale English Joan Lubin 38 Brown English Jacques Khalip 18 Columbia English Sharon Marcus 58 Cornell English Cathy Caruth 08 Dartmouth English Anjuli F Kolb 08 Harvard English Deidre Shauna Lynch 08 Penn English Bakirathi Mani 18 Princeton English Bradin Cormack 08 Yale English Marcel Elias 39 Brown English Ada Smailbegovic 09 Columbia English Zoë L. Henry 49 Cornell English Chelsea Mikael Frazier 09 Dartmouth English Barbara Will 09 Harvard English Derek Miller 09 Penn English Jean-Christophe Cloutier 19 Princeton English D. Vance Smith 09 Yale English Stephanie Newell 310 Brown English Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman 010 Columbia English Rebecca Kastleman 210 Cornell English Elisha Cohn 010 Dartmouth English Colleen Glenney Boggs 010 Harvard English Elaine Scarry 010 Penn English Melissa E. Sanchez 110 Princeton English Eduardo Cadava 010 Yale English Olivia Lingyi Xu 211 Brown English Deak Nabers 011 Columbia English Denise Cruz 111 Cornell English Elizabeth S. Anker 011 Dartmouth English George Edmondson 011 Harvard English Glenda Carpio 011 Penn English Abdulhamit Arvas 011 Princeton English Esther Schor 011 Yale English Shane Vogel 212 Brown English Dixa Ramirez 012 Columbia English Alan Stewart 012 Cornell English Ellis Hanson 012 Dartmouth English Jeff Sharlet 012 Harvard English Gordon Teskey 012 Penn English Al Filreis 012 Princeton English Gayle Salamon 012 Yale English Jessica Brantley 113 Brown English Ellen Rooney 013 Columbia English Amy E. Hungerford 013 Cornell English Emily Fridlund 013 Dartmouth English Jessica C. Beckman 013 Harvard English Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 013 Penn English Caz Batten 013 Princeton English Gene Andrew Jarrett 013 Yale English Anastasia Eccles 014 Brown English Jim Egan 014 Columbia English Andrew Delbanco 014 Cornell English Ernesto Quiñonez 014 Dartmouth English Jodi Kim 014 Harvard English Homi Bhabha 014 Penn English Chi-ming Yang 014 Princeton English Jeff Dolven 014 Yale English Ardis Butterfield 015 Brown English Kevin E. Quashie 015 Columbia English Austin E. Quigley 015 Cornell English George Hutchinson 015 Dartmouth English Kimberly Juanita Brown 015 Harvard English Jesse McCarthy 015 Penn English Dagmawi Woubshet 015 Princeton English Jeff Nunokawa 015 Yale English Caryl Phillips 0123456789101112131415CitationsRank

Brown EnglishColumbia EnglishCornell EnglishDartmouth EnglishHarvard EnglishPenn EnglishPrinceton EnglishYale English

Rank 15 of 46 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 English, Columbia English, Dartmouth English, Harvard English, Penn English, Yale English.0.05.010.015.020.0Associate Brown English median of 1 academics 12.012.0Associate Dartmouth English median of 1 academics 10.010.0Associate Penn English median of 2 academics 9.09.0Associate Yale English median of 1 academics 8.08.0Full or distinguished Brown English median of 2 academics 19.519.5Full or distinguished Columbia English median of 2 academics 19.019.0Full or distinguished Harvard English median of 1 academics 9.09.0Full or distinguished Yale English median of 2 academics 11.511.5AssociateFull or distinguishedYears since the PhDRank reached

Brown EnglishColumbia EnglishDartmouth EnglishHarvard EnglishPenn EnglishYale English

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.African Studies ReviewAfrican Studies Review 1515American Literary HistoryAmerican Literary History 88differencesdifferences 88ELHELH 77Critical InquiryCritical Inquiry 55Modern Language QuarterlyModern Language Quarterly 55boundary 2boundary 2 55NOVEL A Forum on FictionNOVEL A Forum on Fiction 55The New York Review of BooksThe New York Review of Books 55Value in HealthValue in Health 55RepresentationsRepresentations 44New Literary HistoryNew Literary History 44051015JournalWorks

The twelve venues highest on this reading, of 134.