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 1,121
2 Princeton Chemistry Princeton · 32 academics 619
3 Columbia Chemistry Columbia · 24 academics 458
4 Yale Chemistry Yale · 25 academics 358
5 Cornell Chemistry Cornell · 31 academics 352
6 Penn Chemistry Penn · 30 academics 328
7 Dartmouth Chemistry Dartmouth · 15 academics 223
8 Brown Chemistry Brown · 19 academics 208

87,612 citations over 1,917 of 2,442 works (79% carry a count). 126 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 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 Unit Each point

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

Median citations per academic at each rank
Value Statistic
Series: Brown Chemistry, Dartmouth Chemistry, Columbia Chemistry, Cornell Chemistry, Harvard Chemistry, Penn Chemistry, Princeton Chemistry, Yale Chemistry.0.0500.01,000.01,500.02,000.0Distinguished Brown Chemistry over 6 academics 173.5Distinguished Dartmouth Chemistry over 2 academics 390.5Distinguished Columbia Chemistry over 2 academics 1,741.0Distinguished Cornell Chemistry over 1 academics 134.0Distinguished Harvard Chemistry over 7 academics 174.0Distinguished Penn Chemistry over 3 academics 121.0Distinguished Princeton Chemistry over 9 academics 469.0Distinguished Yale Chemistry over 6 academics 107.5Full Brown Chemistry over 6 academics 14.5Full Dartmouth Chemistry over 1 academics 23.0Full Columbia Chemistry over 3 academics 0.0Full Cornell Chemistry over 3 academics 285.0Full Harvard Chemistry over 3 academics 972.0Full Penn Chemistry over 4 academics 696.0Full Princeton Chemistry over 5 academics 0.0Full Yale Chemistry over 2 academics 87.5Associate Cornell Chemistry over 1 academics 1,461.0Associate Harvard Chemistry over 1 academics 1,348.0Associate Penn Chemistry over 1 academics 946.0Associate Princeton Chemistry over 1 academics 544.0Associate Yale Chemistry over 2 academics 855.5Assistant Brown Chemistry over 5 academics 176.0Assistant Dartmouth Chemistry over 2 academics 412.0Assistant Columbia Chemistry over 2 academics 226.0Assistant Cornell Chemistry over 1 academics 773.0Assistant Penn Chemistry over 2 academics 335.0Assistant Princeton Chemistry over 5 academics 218.0Assistant Yale Chemistry over 1 academics 0.0Unknown Brown Chemistry over 2 academics 125.5Unknown Dartmouth Chemistry over 10 academics 75.5Unknown Columbia Chemistry over 17 academics 75.0Unknown Cornell Chemistry over 25 academics 0.0Unknown Harvard Chemistry over 11 academics 118.0Unknown Penn Chemistry over 20 academics 114.0Unknown Princeton Chemistry over 12 academics 44.5Unknown Yale Chemistry over 13 academics 349.0Other Yale Chemistry over 1 academics 928.0DistinguishedFullAssociateAssistantUnknownOtherMedian citations per academicRank

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.02500500075001 Brown Chemistry Ou Chen 11031 Dartmouth Chemistry Katherine A. Mirica 10001 Columbia Chemistry Xavier Roy 36981 Cornell Chemistry Yao Yang 30651 Harvard Chemistry Joonho Lee 62701 Penn Chemistry Tianquan “Tim” Lian 15991 Princeton Chemistry Christopher J. Chang 32961 Yale Chemistry Stacy Malaker 14752 Brown Chemistry Brenda Rubenstein 6742 Dartmouth Chemistry Ivan Aprahamian 7812 Columbia Chemistry Xiaoyang Zhu 34822 Cornell Chemistry Marissa Lavagnino 19852 Harvard Chemistry David R. Liu 41592 Penn Chemistry Dirk Trauner 11062 Princeton Chemistry Michael Hecht 26092 Yale Chemistry Jon Ellman 11533 Brown Chemistry Yusong Bai 4943 Dartmouth Chemistry Paul Robustelli 6043 Columbia Chemistry Timothy C Berkelbach 9523 Cornell Chemistry Phillip Milner 14613 Harvard Chemistry Xiaowei Zhuang 37123 Penn Chemistry Zahra Fakhraai 9463 Princeton Chemistry David MacMillan 23443 Yale Chemistry Jason M. Crawford 9774 Brown Chemistry Shouheng Sun 4664 Dartmouth Chemistry Miguel I. Gonzalez 2844 Columbia Chemistry Colin P. Nuckolls 6824 Cornell Chemistry Tristan Lambert 11234 Harvard Chemistry Hongkun Park 25004 Penn Chemistry Squire J. Booker 8984 Princeton Chemistry Sharon Hammes-Schiffer 17654 Yale Chemistry Jaehyeok Jin 9285 Brown Chemistry Lai-Sheng Wang 2535 Dartmouth Chemistry Wenlin Zhang 2205 Columbia Chemistry Luis M. Campos 4815 Cornell Chemistry Robert A. DiStasio Jr. 7735 Harvard Chemistry Jarad Mason 13485 Penn Chemistry Abraham Nitzan 7115 Princeton Chemistry Robert Knowles 15625 Yale Chemistry James Mayer 8906 Brown Chemistry Emily Sprague-Klein 2216 Dartmouth Chemistry Xin Qi 1466 Columbia Chemistry Neel H. Shah 4606 Cornell Chemistry Jeremy M. Baskin 5166 Harvard Chemistry Emily Balskus 13166 Penn Chemistry Patrick J. Walsh 6816 Princeton Chemistry Leslie Schoop 14086 Yale Chemistry Patrick Holland 6117 Brown Chemistry Ming Xian 1907 Dartmouth Chemistry Jane E. G. Lipson 827 Columbia Chemistry Diptarka Hait 3417 Cornell Chemistry Frank C. Schroeder 4137 Harvard Chemistry Suyang Xu 10417 Penn Chemistry Megan L. Matthews 6457 Princeton Chemistry Joseph Subotnik 13927 Yale Chemistry Hailiang Wang 5108 Brown Chemistry Jerome Robinson 1768 Dartmouth Chemistry Michael J. Ragusa 818 Columbia Chemistry Ruben L Gonzalez Jr 3018 Cornell Chemistry Peng Chen 3898 Harvard Chemistry Adam Cohen 10388 Penn Chemistry E. James Petersson 5378 Princeton Chemistry Joshua Rabinowitz 10568 Yale Chemistry Gary Brudvig 4779 Brown Chemistry Sarah Delaney 949 Dartmouth Chemistry David S. Glueck 709 Columbia Chemistry Laura J. Kaufman 2089 Cornell Chemistry Erik Thiede 3039 Harvard Chemistry Kang-Kuen Ni 9729 Penn Chemistry Kai Chen 4669 Princeton Chemistry Roberto Car 10529 Yale Chemistry Tianyu Zhu 41010 Brown Chemistry Megan Kizer 8010 Dartmouth Chemistry Dean E. Wilcox 5410 Columbia Chemistry Ann E. McDermott 18410 Cornell Chemistry Kyle M. Lancaster 28510 Harvard Chemistry Christina Woo 82010 Penn Chemistry Andrew M. Rappe 35910 Princeton Chemistry Paul Chirik 69010 Yale Chemistry Eric Arsenault 36711 Brown Chemistry Matthew Coley-O'Rourke 6111 Dartmouth Chemistry Jimmy Wu 2311 Columbia Chemistry Makeda Tekle-Smith 11111 Cornell Chemistry Nandini Ananth 18511 Harvard Chemistry Brian Liau 57911 Penn Chemistry Andrew Zahrt 34511 Princeton Chemistry Salvatore Torquato 64011 Yale Chemistry Sarah Slavoff 34912 Brown Chemistry Benjamin McDonald 4612 Dartmouth Chemistry Dale F. Mierke 012 Columbia Chemistry Angelo Cacciuto 7512 Cornell Chemistry Pamela Chang 15012 Harvard Chemistry Richard Y. Liu 49612 Penn Chemistry David M. Chenoweth 33112 Princeton Chemistry Ralph Kleiner 54412 Yale Chemistry Timothy Newhouse 23613 Brown Chemistry Eunsuk Kim 3413 Dartmouth Chemistry Ekaterina V. Pletneva 013 Columbia Chemistry Jonathan S. Owen 1213 Cornell Chemistry Barbara A. Baird 13413 Harvard Chemistry Jeffrey R. Long 17413 Penn Chemistry Ivan J. Dmochowski 21113 Princeton Chemistry Tom Muir 46913 Yale Chemistry William Jorgensen 21514 Brown Chemistry Peter Weber 2214 Dartmouth Chemistry F. Jon Kull 014 Columbia Chemistry Dalibor Sames 014 Cornell Chemistry Jonathan A. Kephart 8314 Harvard Chemistry Eugene I. Shakhnovich 11814 Penn Chemistry Yifan Quan 20014 Princeton Chemistry William M. Jacobs 41114 Yale Chemistry E. Chui-Ying Yan 17515 Brown Chemistry Amit Basu 1715 Dartmouth Chemistry Mahima Sneha 015 Columbia Chemistry David R. Reichman 015 Cornell Chemistry John A. Marohn 5015 Harvard Chemistry James G. Anderson 8115 Penn Chemistry Tobias Baumgart 19815 Princeton Chemistry Marissa Weichman 27115 Yale Chemistry Caitlin Davis 173123456789101112131415CitationsRank

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, Cornell Chemistry, Harvard Chemistry, Princeton Chemistry, Yale Chemistry.0.05.010.015.020.0Associate Brown Chemistry median of 2 academics 10.510.5Associate Cornell Chemistry median of 1 academics 9.09.0Associate Harvard Chemistry median of 1 academics 9.09.0Associate Princeton Chemistry median of 1 academics 13.013.0Associate Yale Chemistry median of 1 academics 12.012.0Full or distinguished Brown Chemistry median of 3 academics 18.018.0Full or distinguished Cornell Chemistry median of 1 academics 12.012.0Full or distinguished Harvard Chemistry median of 1 academics 11.011.0Full or distinguished Princeton Chemistry median of 1 academics 10.010.0AssociateFull or distinguishedYears since the PhDRank reached

Brown ChemistryCornell ChemistryHarvard 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 276276The Journal of Chemical PhysicsThe Journal of Chemical Physics 138138Nature CommunicationsNature Communications 8888NatureNature 6666Journal of Chemical Theory and ComputationJournal of Chemical Theory and Computation 6363Chemical ScienceChemical Science 5555The Journal of Physical Chemistry LettersThe Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 5353APS March Meeting AbstractsAPS March Meeting Abstracts 5353Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 5050Angewandte Chemie International EditionAngewandte Chemie International Edition 4444bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 4343ScienceScience 3636050100150200250JournalWorks

The twelve venues highest on this reading, of 326.