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 Cornell English Cornell · 38 academics 900
2 Princeton English Princeton · 29 academics 732
3 Columbia English Columbia · 46 academics 430
4 Brown English Brown · 28 academics 356
5 Yale English Yale · 39 academics 319
6 Penn English Penn · 32 academics 213
7 Harvard English Harvard · 25 academics 206
8 Dartmouth English Dartmouth · 28 academics 142

113,519 citations over 1,826 of 3,204 works (57% carry a count). 119 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.0.01,000.02,000.03,000.04,000.0Distinguished Brown English over 9 academics 398.0Distinguished Columbia English over 4 academics 3,097.0Distinguished Cornell English over 3 academics 718.0Distinguished Dartmouth English over 2 academics 912.5Distinguished Harvard English over 3 academics 1,347.0Distinguished Penn English over 6 academics 611.0Distinguished Princeton English over 2 academics 1,253.0Distinguished Yale English over 7 academics 836.0Full Brown English over 7 academics 70.0Full Columbia English over 3 academics 176.0Full Cornell English over 4 academics 22.0Full Harvard English over 3 academics 38.0Full Princeton English over 1 academics 0.0Full Yale English over 7 academics 153.0Associate Brown English over 6 academics 47.0Associate Columbia English over 1 academics 170.0Associate Cornell English over 11 academics 71.0Associate Dartmouth English over 2 academics 733.0Associate Penn English over 3 academics 46.0Associate Yale English over 4 academics 59.5Assistant Brown English over 2 academics 13.0Assistant Columbia English over 4 academics 10.0Assistant Cornell English over 2 academics 0.0Assistant Dartmouth English over 1 academics 2.0Assistant Harvard English over 1 academics 25.0Assistant Penn English over 1 academics 213.0Assistant Princeton English over 1 academics 60.0Assistant Yale English over 8 academics 3.5Unknown 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.0500010000150002000025000300001 Brown English Amanda Anderson 31061 Columbia English Bruce Robbins 86141 Cornell English Cathy Caruth 299061 Dartmouth English Donald E. Pease 15281 Harvard English Martin Puchner 31441 Penn English James English 29051 Princeton English Rob Nixon 176121 Yale English John Durham Peters 38472 Brown English Leela Gandhi 24242 Columbia English Sharon Marcus 56652 Cornell English Laura Brown 7182 Dartmouth English James E. Dobson 9472 Harvard English Elaine Scarry 13472 Penn English Paul Saint-Amour 16042 Princeton English Simon Gikandi 22422 Yale English Ruth Yeazell 20273 Brown English Timothy Bewes 17333 Columbia English Joseph R. Slaughter 22153 Cornell English Kevin Attell 6813 Dartmouth English Aden Evens 5193 Harvard English John Stauffer 2163 Penn English Zachary Lesser 9143 Princeton English Robert Spoo 8803 Yale English Caleb Smith 14114 Brown English Marc Redfield 4174 Columbia English Jennifer Wenzel 18004 Cornell English Mary Loeffelholz 6124 Dartmouth English Carolyn Dever 4094 Harvard English Beth Blum 1584 Penn English Melissa E. Sanchez 3084 Princeton English Nigel Smith 2644 Yale English Katie Trumpener 9575 Brown English Philip Gould 3985 Columbia English Nicholas Dames 5295 Cornell English George Hutchinson 5875 Dartmouth English Andrew L. McCann 2975 Harvard English Christopher Pexa 1125 Penn English Dagmawi Woubshet 2145 Princeton English Zahid R. Chaudhary 1825 Yale English Stephanie Newell 8366 Brown English Ellen Rooney 3676 Columbia English Julie Stone Peters 3336 Cornell English Ellis Hanson 4236 Dartmouth English Melissa F. Zeiger 2736 Harvard English Daniel Donoghue 816 Penn English Rahul Mukherjee 2136 Princeton English Paul Nadal 606 Yale English Cajetan Iheka 7757 Brown English Dixa Ramirez 2567 Columbia English Jenny Davidson 2297 Cornell English Jeremy Braddock 3197 Dartmouth English Matthew Ritger 27 Harvard English Leah Whittington 387 Penn English Jean-Christophe Cloutier 1907 Princeton English Andrew Cole 07 Yale English Jonathan Kramnick 7618 Brown English Kevin McLaughlin 1508 Columbia English Dennis Yi Tenen 1768 Cornell English Masha Raskolnikov 1658 Dartmouth English Alexander Chee 08 Harvard English Tara K. Menon 258 Penn English S. Pearl Brilmyer 1758 Princeton English Anne A. Cheng 08 Yale English David Bromwich 5039 Brown English Kevin E. Quashie 1339 Columbia English Denise Cruz 1709 Cornell English Elisha Cohn 1329 Dartmouth English Alysia Garrison 09 Harvard English Derek Miller 239 Penn English Bakirathi Mani 1499 Princeton English Autumn Womack 09 Yale English Erica Edwards 44510 Brown English Rolland D. Murray 12810 Columbia English Carlos Alonso Nugent 2010 Cornell English Elizabeth S. Anker 12110 Dartmouth English Anjuli F Kolb 010 Harvard English Amanda Claybaugh 010 Penn English Whitney Trettien 4610 Princeton English Bradin Cormack 010 Yale English Emily Thornbury 23211 Brown English Stuart Burrows 11111 Columbia English Rebecca Kastleman 1411 Cornell English Roger Gilbert 11011 Dartmouth English Barbara Will 011 Harvard English Anna Wilson 011 Penn English Julia Alekseyeva 3611 Princeton English D. Vance Smith 011 Yale English Shane Vogel 15312 Brown English James A. Kuzner 10912 Columbia English Zoë L. Henry 612 Cornell English Chelsea Mikael Frazier 9512 Dartmouth English Colleen Glenney Boggs 012 Harvard English Deidre Shauna Lynch 012 Penn English Sara Kazmi 2912 Princeton English Eduardo Cadava 012 Yale English Jessica Brantley 14113 Brown English Jacques Khalip 10613 Columbia English Alan Stewart 013 Cornell English Kate McCullough 7113 Dartmouth English George Edmondson 013 Harvard English Glenda Carpio 013 Penn English Herman Beavers 2813 Princeton English Esther Schor 013 Yale English John Williams 12114 Brown English Richard Rambuss 9214 Columbia English Amy E. Hungerford 014 Cornell English Rebeca Hey-Colón 5014 Dartmouth English Jeff Sharlet 014 Harvard English Gordon Teskey 014 Penn English Abdulhamit Arvas 014 Princeton English Gayle Salamon 014 Yale English Juno Jill Richards 8115 Brown English Deak Nabers 7315 Columbia English Andrew Delbanco 015 Cornell English Mary Pat Brady 4115 Dartmouth English Jessica C. Beckman 015 Harvard English Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 015 Penn English Al Filreis 015 Princeton English Gene Andrew Jarrett 015 Yale English Priyasha Mukhopadhyay 55123456789101112131415CitationsRank

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, Cornell English, Dartmouth English, Harvard English, Penn English, Princeton English, Yale English.0.05.010.015.020.0Associate Brown English median of 16 academics 7.07.0Associate Columbia English median of 8 academics 6.06.0Associate Cornell English median of 13 academics 6.06.0Associate Dartmouth English median of 3 academics 10.010.0Associate Harvard English median of 4 academics 4.54.5Associate Penn English median of 8 academics 7.07.0Associate Princeton English median of 2 academics 6.06.0Associate Yale English median of 12 academics 6.06.0Full or distinguished Brown English median of 13 academics 14.014.0Full or distinguished Columbia English median of 6 academics 13.513.5Full or distinguished Cornell English median of 5 academics 12.012.0Full or distinguished Dartmouth English median of 2 academics 9.59.5Full or distinguished Harvard English median of 5 academics 8.08.0Full or distinguished Penn English median of 6 academics 16.016.0Full or distinguished Princeton English median of 3 academics 14.014.0Full or distinguished Yale English median of 12 academics 11.511.5AssociateFull or distinguishedYears since the PhDRank reached

Brown EnglishColumbia EnglishCornell EnglishDartmouth EnglishHarvard EnglishPenn EnglishPrinceton 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.PMLA/Publications of the Modern Lang...ciation of AmericaPMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 6868NOVEL A Forum on FictionNOVEL A Forum on Fiction 4646boundary 2boundary 2 4242ELHELH 3333American Literary HistoryAmerican Literary History 3333Critical InquiryCritical Inquiry 3232CallalooCallaloo 2929differencesdifferences 2828Victorian StudiesVictorian Studies 2727Medical Entomology and ZoologyMedical Entomology and Zoology 2626Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) 2626RepresentationsRepresentations 252502550JournalWorks

The twelve venues highest on this reading, of 548.