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 Englishaverage 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 Englishaverage 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, Associate, Assistant, Unknown.051015202530Brown English Distinguished 9Brown English Full 7Brown English Associate 6Brown English Assistant 2Brown English Unknown 428Brown EnglishAcademicsDepartment

DistinguishedFullAssociateAssistantUnknown

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.0.0100.0200.0300.0400.0Distinguished Brown English over 9 academics 398.0398.0Full Brown English over 7 academics 70.070.0Associate Brown English over 6 academics 47.047.0Assistant Brown English over 2 academics 13.013.0Other Brown English over 4 academics 0.00.0DistinguishedFullAssociateAssistantOtherMedian 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 English against the average of the other 7
Value Ranks
Series: Brown English, average of 7.Brown Englishaverage of 71Rank 1 Brown English Amanda Anderson 3106Amanda Anderson3106Rank 1 average of 7 mean of 7 96519651mean of 72Rank 2 Brown English Leela Gandhi 2424Leela Gandhi2424Rank 2 average of 7 mean of 7 20792079mean of 73Rank 3 Brown English Timothy Bewes 1733Timothy Bewes1733Rank 3 average of 7 mean of 7 977977mean of 74Rank 4 Brown English Marc Redfield 417Marc Redfield417Rank 4 average of 7 mean of 7 644644mean of 75Rank 5 Brown English Philip Gould 398Philip Gould398Rank 5 average of 7 mean of 7 394394mean of 76Rank 6 Brown English Ellen Rooney 367Ellen Rooney367Rank 6 average of 7 mean of 7 308308mean of 77Rank 7 Brown English Dixa Ramirez 256Dixa Ramirez256Rank 7 average of 7 mean of 7 220220mean of 78Rank 8 Brown English Kevin McLaughlin 150Kevin McLaughlin150Rank 8 average of 7 mean of 7 149149mean of 79Rank 9 Brown English Kevin E. Quashie 133Kevin E. Quashie133Rank 9 average of 7 mean of 7 131131mean of 710Rank 10 Brown English Rolland D. Murray 128Rolland D. Murray128Rank 10 average of 7 mean of 7 6060mean of 711Rank 11 Brown English Stuart Burrows 111Stuart Burrows111Rank 11 average of 7 mean of 7 4545mean of 712Rank 12 Brown English James A. Kuzner 109James A. Kuzner109Rank 12 average of 7 mean of 7 3939mean of 713Rank 13 Brown English Jacques Khalip 106Jacques Khalip106Rank 13 average of 7 mean of 7 3131mean of 714Rank 14 Brown English Richard Rambuss 92Richard Rambuss92Rank 14 average of 7 mean of 7 1919mean of 715Rank 15 Brown English Deak Nabers 73Deak Nabers73Rank 15 average of 7 mean of 7 1414mean of 7Rank0200040006000800002000400060008000Citations

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 28 are drawn.

Years to promotion

From the PhD to each rank
Series: Brown English.0.05.010.015.0Associate Brown English median of 16 academics 7.07.0Full or distinguished Brown English median of 13 academics 14.014.0AssociateFull 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.NOVEL A Forum on FictionNOVEL A Forum on Fiction 2828differencesdifferences 1919ELHELH 1212Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) 1010diacriticsdiacritics 99American Literary HistoryAmerican Literary History 88Modern Language QuarterlyModern Language Quarterly 77Early American literatureEarly American literature 77MLNMLN 66New FormationsNew Formations 66European Romantic ReviewEuropean Romantic Review 66Victorian StudiesVictorian Studies 550510152025JournalWorks

The twelve venues highest on this reading, of 144.