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

Departments

Citations by mean * log(1 + people)
1 Harvard Chemistry Harvard · 22 academics 24,018.8
2 Princeton Chemistry Princeton · 32 academics 22,783.0
3 Columbia Chemistry Columbia · 24 academics 12,856.8
4 Cornell Chemistry Cornell · 31 academics 11,527.9
5 Yale Chemistry Yale · 25 academics 10,541.3
6 Penn Chemistry Penn · 30 academics 9,095.7
7 Brown Chemistry Brown · 19 academics 4,887.1
8 Dartmouth Chemistry Dartmouth · 15 academics 4,008.1

498,526 citations over 4,817 of 5,912 works (81% carry a count). 136 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

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

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

Citations by mean * log(1 + people) at each rank
Value Statistic
Series: Brown Chemistry, Dartmouth Chemistry, Columbia Chemistry, Cornell Chemistry, Harvard Chemistry, Penn Chemistry, Princeton Chemistry, Yale Chemistry.0.05,000.010,000.015,000.020,000.025,000.0Distinguished Brown Chemistry over 6 academics 3,857.1Distinguished Dartmouth Chemistry over 2 academics 2,074.7Distinguished Columbia Chemistry over 2 academics 11,213.5Distinguished Cornell Chemistry over 1 academics 305.7Distinguished Harvard Chemistry over 7 academics 22,971.3Distinguished Penn Chemistry over 3 academics 4,680.6Distinguished Princeton Chemistry over 9 academics 7,722.1Distinguished Yale Chemistry over 6 academics 4,996.8Full Brown Chemistry over 6 academics 2,717.5Full Dartmouth Chemistry over 1 academics 210.7Full Columbia Chemistry over 3 academics 2,007.8Full Cornell Chemistry over 3 academics 4,671.3Full Harvard Chemistry over 3 academics 5,069.7Full Penn Chemistry over 4 academics 5,915.9Full Princeton Chemistry over 5 academics 3,598.2Full Yale Chemistry over 2 academics 2,501.0Associate Cornell Chemistry over 1 academics 3,219.0Associate Harvard Chemistry over 1 academics 3,442.9Associate Penn Chemistry over 1 academics 1,699.6Associate Princeton Chemistry over 1 academics 973.2Associate Yale Chemistry over 2 academics 3,668.3Assistant Brown Chemistry over 5 academics 2,347.6Assistant Dartmouth Chemistry over 2 academics 1,477.6Assistant Columbia Chemistry over 2 academics 2,551.0Assistant Cornell Chemistry over 1 academics 12,593.8Assistant Penn Chemistry over 2 academics 594.9Assistant Princeton Chemistry over 5 academics 1,376.8Assistant Yale Chemistry over 1 academics 0.0Unknown Brown Chemistry over 2 academics 2,292.3Unknown Dartmouth Chemistry over 10 academics 2,882.7Unknown Columbia Chemistry over 17 academics 5,187.4Unknown Cornell Chemistry over 25 academics 2,587.8Unknown Harvard Chemistry over 11 academics 8,349.1Unknown Penn Chemistry over 20 academics 4,552.3Unknown Princeton Chemistry over 12 academics 13,957.8Unknown Yale Chemistry over 13 academics 5,432.2Other Yale Chemistry over 1 academics 1,112.5DistinguishedFullAssociateAssistantUnknownOtherCitations by mean * log(1 + people)Rank

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.010000200003000040000500001 Brown Chemistry Ou Chen 72111 Dartmouth Chemistry Katherine A. Mirica 59211 Columbia Chemistry Xiaoyang Zhu 193571 Cornell Chemistry Robert A. DiStasio Jr. 181691 Harvard Chemistry David R. Liu 486371 Penn Chemistry Dirk Trauner 76861 Princeton Chemistry Roberto Car 235511 Yale Chemistry Hailiang Wang 75112 Brown Chemistry Shouheng Sun 70522 Dartmouth Chemistry Miguel I. Gonzalez 42242 Columbia Chemistry Timothy C Berkelbach 87432 Cornell Chemistry Yao Yang 75032 Harvard Chemistry Xiaowei Zhuang 158522 Penn Chemistry Andrew M. Rappe 66402 Princeton Chemistry Joshua Rabinowitz 154972 Yale Chemistry Patrick Holland 62593 Brown Chemistry Yusong Bai 40193 Dartmouth Chemistry Ivan Aprahamian 37573 Columbia Chemistry Xavier Roy 83923 Cornell Chemistry Kyle M. Lancaster 62963 Harvard Chemistry Joonho Lee 113583 Penn Chemistry Tianquan “Tim” Lian 53793 Princeton Chemistry David MacMillan 134543 Yale Chemistry William Jorgensen 49244 Brown Chemistry Ming Xian 39334 Dartmouth Chemistry Paul Robustelli 21424 Columbia Chemistry Colin P. Nuckolls 49684 Cornell Chemistry Phillip Milner 46444 Harvard Chemistry Hongkun Park 104084 Penn Chemistry Patrick J. Walsh 50704 Princeton Chemistry Sharon Hammes-Schiffer 82124 Yale Chemistry Stacy Malaker 46365 Brown Chemistry Brenda Rubenstein 21095 Dartmouth Chemistry Jane E. G. Lipson 5625 Columbia Chemistry Diptarka Hait 41795 Cornell Chemistry Frank C. Schroeder 39305 Harvard Chemistry Suyang Xu 92565 Penn Chemistry Kai Chen 34415 Princeton Chemistry Christopher J. Chang 78255 Yale Chemistry Gary Brudvig 41576 Brown Chemistry Lai-Sheng Wang 19386 Dartmouth Chemistry Wenlin Zhang 5486 Columbia Chemistry Luis M. Campos 41526 Cornell Chemistry Tristan Lambert 38136 Harvard Chemistry Emily Balskus 59376 Penn Chemistry E. James Petersson 32586 Princeton Chemistry Tom Muir 68256 Yale Chemistry James Mayer 39797 Brown Chemistry Megan Kizer 11587 Dartmouth Chemistry David S. Glueck 4457 Columbia Chemistry Tomislav Rovis 34037 Cornell Chemistry Marissa Lavagnino 22957 Harvard Chemistry Jeffrey R. Long 57637 Penn Chemistry Abraham Nitzan 30847 Princeton Chemistry Paul Chirik 53157 Yale Chemistry Nilay Hazari 39608 Brown Chemistry Eunsuk Kim 7408 Dartmouth Chemistry Michael J. Ragusa 3168 Columbia Chemistry Neel H. Shah 15608 Cornell Chemistry Jeremy M. Baskin 15708 Harvard Chemistry Kang-Kuen Ni 52488 Penn Chemistry Eric J. Schelter 30148 Princeton Chemistry Robert Knowles 52648 Yale Chemistry Sarah Slavoff 36899 Brown Chemistry Emily Sprague-Klein 4769 Dartmouth Chemistry Xin Qi 3099 Columbia Chemistry Virginia W. Cornish 10579 Cornell Chemistry Peng Chen 14309 Harvard Chemistry Jarad Mason 49679 Penn Chemistry David W. Christianson 26379 Princeton Chemistry Joseph Subotnik 51579 Yale Chemistry Jon Ellman 364110 Brown Chemistry Benjamin McDonald 46010 Dartmouth Chemistry Jimmy Wu 30410 Columbia Chemistry Jonathan S. Owen 94210 Cornell Chemistry Pamela Chang 130910 Harvard Chemistry Adam Cohen 339310 Penn Chemistry Zahra Fakhraai 245210 Princeton Chemistry Michael Hecht 488410 Yale Chemistry Tianyu Zhu 299811 Brown Chemistry Jerome Robinson 43811 Dartmouth Chemistry Dean E. Wilcox 16811 Columbia Chemistry Ruben L Gonzalez Jr 78511 Cornell Chemistry Nandini Ananth 65411 Harvard Chemistry Richard Y. Liu 279111 Penn Chemistry Jeffrey D. Winkler 244311 Princeton Chemistry Leslie Schoop 477011 Yale Chemistry Jason M. Crawford 297312 Brown Chemistry Sarah Delaney 39412 Dartmouth Chemistry Dale F. Mierke 7712 Columbia Chemistry Laura J. Kaufman 77012 Cornell Chemistry Erik Thiede 63712 Harvard Chemistry Christina Woo 233012 Penn Chemistry David M. Chenoweth 218012 Princeton Chemistry Salvatore Torquato 456712 Yale Chemistry Timothy Newhouse 204213 Brown Chemistry Peter Weber 38713 Dartmouth Chemistry F. Jon Kull 2013 Columbia Chemistry Angelo Cacciuto 62313 Cornell Chemistry Barbara A. Baird 44113 Harvard Chemistry Eugene I. Shakhnovich 184413 Penn Chemistry Squire J. Booker 196213 Princeton Chemistry William M. Jacobs 191913 Yale Chemistry Jaehyeok Jin 160514 Brown Chemistry Matthew Coley-O'Rourke 24014 Dartmouth Chemistry Ekaterina V. Pletneva 014 Columbia Chemistry Ann E. McDermott 51714 Cornell Chemistry Jonathan A. Kephart 22114 Harvard Chemistry Brian Liau 110214 Penn Chemistry Tobias Baumgart 177014 Princeton Chemistry Ralph Kleiner 140414 Yale Chemistry Eric Arsenault 86415 Brown Chemistry Christoph Rose-Petruck 18515 Dartmouth Chemistry Mahima Sneha 015 Columbia Chemistry Makeda Tekle-Smith 46515 Cornell Chemistry John A. Marohn 15915 Harvard Chemistry Theodore Betley 81415 Penn Chemistry Marsha I. Lester 134915 Princeton Chemistry Lilia Xie 96615 Yale Chemistry E. Chui-Ying Yan 593123456789101112131415CitationsRank

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, Cornell Chemistry, Harvard Chemistry, Penn Chemistry, Princeton Chemistry, Yale Chemistry.0.05.010.015.020.0Associate Brown Chemistry median of 2 academics 10.510.5Associate Cornell Chemistry median of 2 academics 8.58.5Associate Harvard Chemistry median of 3 academics 9.09.0Associate Penn Chemistry median of 1 academics 10.010.0Associate Princeton Chemistry median of 1 academics 13.013.0Associate Yale Chemistry median of 2 academics 10.010.0Full or distinguished Brown Chemistry median of 4 academics 17.017.0Full or distinguished Dartmouth Chemistry median of 2 academics 15.015.0Full or distinguished Cornell Chemistry median of 1 academics 12.012.0Full or distinguished Harvard Chemistry median of 3 academics 11.011.0Full or distinguished Princeton Chemistry median of 2 academics 9.59.5AssociateFull or distinguishedYears since the PhDRank reached

Brown ChemistryDartmouth 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 633633The Journal of Chemical PhysicsThe Journal of Chemical Physics 289289Nature CommunicationsNature Communications 170170Chemical ScienceChemical Science 159159Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 151151Angewandte Chemie International EditionAngewandte Chemie International Edition 145145NatureNature 133133The Journal of Physical Chemistry LettersThe Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 120120Journal of Chemical Theory and ComputationJournal of Chemical Theory and Computation 114114ScienceScience 101101Inorganic ChemistryInorganic Chemistry 8383Nano LettersNano Letters 80800250500JournalWorks

The twelve venues highest on this reading, of 516.