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

Every graph on this site

Publications

  • Ranking Ranked table
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work
  • Works published per year Lines over years
    • Measure: Total, Mean per academic, Median per academic
    • Calendar year or years since PhD
    • In each year or cumulative
  • Citations received per year Lines over years
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work, Mean per academic, Median per academic
    • In each year or cumulative
  • Citation distribution Bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations
  • Citations by age of work Lines over years
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work
  • Publication type mix Ranked bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
  • Top venues Ranked bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications

Academics

Departmentshere

  • Ranking Ranked table
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work, Mean per academic, Median per academic, Formula
  • Publications over time Lines over years
    • Measure: Total, Mean per academic, Median per academic, Formula
    • Calendar year or years since PhD
    • In each year or cumulative
  • Citations over time Lines over years
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations
    • Measure: Total, Mean per academic, Median per academic, Formula
    • In each year or cumulative
  • Makeup by tenure track Stacked bars
  • Output by rank Grouped bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work, Mean per academic, Median per academic, Formula
  • Academics ranked against academics Grouped bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
    • How many ranks (opens on 5)
  • Years to promotion Grouped bars
  • Journals used Stacked bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications

Journals

Fields

  • Ranking Ranked table
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work, Mean per academic, Median per academic
  • Departments by field Bars
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work, Mean per academic, Median per academic
  • University rollup Ranked bars
  • Coverage by field Ranked bars

Trackademia

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Search a person, a department, a journal or the title of a work. A person’s name brings up their profile, their publications, their department and the journals they publish in.
Trackademia
Value Measure

Departments

Mean citations per academic
1 Columbia Chemistry 2 academics 1,741
2 Harvard Chemistry 7 academics 1,355
3 Princeton Chemistry 9 academics 570
4 Penn Chemistry 3 academics 409
5 Dartmouth Chemistry 2 academics 390
6 Yale Chemistry 6 academics 330
7 Brown Chemistry 6 academics 252
8 Cornell Chemistry 1 academics 134

23,507 citations over 465 of 759 works (61% carry a count). 24 of 36 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
Measure X axis 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.

What these filters select, per department not what the graph divided by
Department Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Princeton Chemistry 9 9/9 1.0% 5/9 0.5555555555555556% 9/9 1.0% 225 132/225 0.5866666666666667%
Harvard Chemistry 7 7/7 1.0% 2/7 0.2857142857142857% 7/7 1.0% 215 65/215 0.3023255813953488%
Brown Chemistry 6 6/6 1.0% 3/6 0.5% 6/6 1.0% 98 59/98 0.6020408163265306%
Yale Chemistry 6 6/6 1.0% 3/6 0.5% 6/6 1.0% 73 69/73 0.9452054794520548%
Penn Chemistry 3 3/3 1.0% 2/3 0.6666666666666666% 3/3 1.0% 67 61/67 0.9104477611940298%
Columbia Chemistry 2 2/2 1.0% 1/2 0.5% 2/2 1.0% 44 44/44 1.0%
Dartmouth Chemistry 2 2/2 1.0% 1/2 0.5% 2/2 1.0% 29 27/29 0.9310344827586207%
Cornell Chemistry 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 8 8/8 1.0%
  • Over the academics these filters select, so a filtered page describes the academics it selected and not the whole department.
  • A row with nothing held draws no mark above: the graph is quiet there because the evidence is missing, not because the work is.
  • What there was to draw from, not what the graph divided by - the graph states its own denominator above.
  • A Scholar profile is attached when at least 3 of the CV titles are found on it, or 30% of them are; one at another institution or under a different name needs 10 titles, and a profile far larger than the CV that holds only a small part of it is refused. Its articles are then checked one by one: what is not a work, or not by this person, is not counted.

Citations over time

Citations received in each year
Value Measure Each point

Brown ChemistryDartmouth ChemistryColumbia ChemistryCornell ChemistryHarvard ChemistryPenn ChemistryPrinceton ChemistryYale Chemistry

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

What these filters select, per department not what the graph divided by
Department Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Princeton Chemistry 9 9/9 1.0% 5/9 0.5555555555555556% 9/9 1.0% 225 132/225 0.5866666666666667%
Harvard Chemistry 7 7/7 1.0% 2/7 0.2857142857142857% 7/7 1.0% 215 65/215 0.3023255813953488%
Brown Chemistry 6 6/6 1.0% 3/6 0.5% 6/6 1.0% 98 59/98 0.6020408163265306%
Yale Chemistry 6 6/6 1.0% 3/6 0.5% 6/6 1.0% 73 69/73 0.9452054794520548%
Penn Chemistry 3 3/3 1.0% 2/3 0.6666666666666666% 3/3 1.0% 67 61/67 0.9104477611940298%
Columbia Chemistry 2 2/2 1.0% 1/2 0.5% 2/2 1.0% 44 44/44 1.0%
Dartmouth Chemistry 2 2/2 1.0% 1/2 0.5% 2/2 1.0% 29 27/29 0.9310344827586207%
Cornell Chemistry 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 8 8/8 1.0%
  • Over the academics these filters select, so a filtered page describes the academics it selected and not the whole department.
  • A row with nothing held draws no mark above: the graph is quiet there because the evidence is missing, not because the work is.
  • What there was to draw from, not what the graph divided by - the graph states its own denominator above.
  • A Scholar profile is attached when at least 3 of the CV titles are found on it, or 30% of them are; one at another institution or under a different name needs 10 titles, and a profile far larger than the CV that holds only a small part of it is refused. Its articles are then checked one by one: what is not a work, or not by this person, is not counted.

Makeup by tenure track

Academics on and off the tenure track
Series: Tenure track.0246810Brown Tenure track 66Dartmouth Tenure track 22Columbia Tenure track 22Cornell Tenure track 11Harvard Tenure track 77Penn Tenure track 33Princeton Tenure track 99Yale Tenure track 66BrownDartmouthColumbiaCornellHarvardPennPrincetonYaleAcademicsDepartment

Every academic the filters keep, by whether their current rank is on the tenure track (docs/definitions.md section 7). A rank in neither group - emeritus, postdoc, or a rank no CV states - is its own segment rather than filed under one of them: an emeritus professor was on the tenure track, and an unknown rank is not a claim about tenure at all.

What these filters select, per department not what the graph divided by
Department Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Princeton Chemistry 9 9/9 1.0% 5/9 0.5555555555555556% 9/9 1.0% 225 132/225 0.5866666666666667%
Harvard Chemistry 7 7/7 1.0% 2/7 0.2857142857142857% 7/7 1.0% 215 65/215 0.3023255813953488%
Brown Chemistry 6 6/6 1.0% 3/6 0.5% 6/6 1.0% 98 59/98 0.6020408163265306%
Yale Chemistry 6 6/6 1.0% 3/6 0.5% 6/6 1.0% 73 69/73 0.9452054794520548%
Penn Chemistry 3 3/3 1.0% 2/3 0.6666666666666666% 3/3 1.0% 67 61/67 0.9104477611940298%
Columbia Chemistry 2 2/2 1.0% 1/2 0.5% 2/2 1.0% 44 44/44 1.0%
Dartmouth Chemistry 2 2/2 1.0% 1/2 0.5% 2/2 1.0% 29 27/29 0.9310344827586207%
Cornell Chemistry 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 8 8/8 1.0%
  • Over the academics these filters select, so a filtered page describes the academics it selected and not the whole department.
  • A row with nothing held draws no mark above: the graph is quiet there because the evidence is missing, not because the work is.
  • What there was to draw from, not what the graph divided by - the graph states its own denominator above.
  • A Scholar profile is attached when at least 3 of the CV titles are found on it, or 30% of them are; one at another institution or under a different name needs 10 titles, and a profile far larger than the CV that holds only a small part of it is refused. Its articles are then checked one by one: what is not a work, or not by this person, is not counted.

Output by rank

Median citations per academic at each rank
Value Measure
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 173.5173.5Distinguished Dartmouth Chemistry over 2 academics 390.5390.5Distinguished Columbia Chemistry over 2 academics 1,741.01,741.0Distinguished Cornell Chemistry over 1 academics 134.0134.0Distinguished Harvard Chemistry over 7 academics 174.0174.0Distinguished Penn Chemistry over 3 academics 121.0121.0Distinguished Princeton Chemistry over 9 academics 469.0469.0Distinguished Yale Chemistry over 6 academics 107.5107.5DistinguishedMedian 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.

What these filters select, per department not what the graph divided by
Department Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Princeton Chemistry 9 9/9 1.0% 5/9 0.5555555555555556% 9/9 1.0% 225 132/225 0.5866666666666667%
Harvard Chemistry 7 7/7 1.0% 2/7 0.2857142857142857% 7/7 1.0% 215 65/215 0.3023255813953488%
Brown Chemistry 6 6/6 1.0% 3/6 0.5% 6/6 1.0% 98 59/98 0.6020408163265306%
Yale Chemistry 6 6/6 1.0% 3/6 0.5% 6/6 1.0% 73 69/73 0.9452054794520548%
Penn Chemistry 3 3/3 1.0% 2/3 0.6666666666666666% 3/3 1.0% 67 61/67 0.9104477611940298%
Columbia Chemistry 2 2/2 1.0% 1/2 0.5% 2/2 1.0% 44 44/44 1.0%
Dartmouth Chemistry 2 2/2 1.0% 1/2 0.5% 2/2 1.0% 29 27/29 0.9310344827586207%
Cornell Chemistry 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 8 8/8 1.0%
  • Over the academics these filters select, so a filtered page describes the academics it selected and not the whole department.
  • A row with nothing held draws no mark above: the graph is quiet there because the evidence is missing, not because the work is.
  • What there was to draw from, not what the graph divided by - the graph states its own denominator above.
  • A Scholar profile is attached when at least 3 of the CV titles are found on it, or 30% of them are; one at another institution or under a different name needs 10 titles, and a profile far larger than the CV that holds only a small part of it is refused. Its articles are then checked one by one: what is not a work, or not by this person, is not counted.

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.0100020003000400050001 Brown Chemistry Brenda Rubenstein 6741 Dartmouth Chemistry Ivan Aprahamian 7811 Columbia Chemistry Xiaoyang Zhu 34821 Cornell Chemistry Barbara A. Baird 1341 Harvard Chemistry David R. Liu 41591 Penn Chemistry Dirk Trauner 11061 Princeton Chemistry Sharon Hammes-Schiffer 17651 Yale Chemistry Jon Ellman 11532 Brown Chemistry Shouheng Sun 4662 Dartmouth Chemistry F. Jon Kull 02 Columbia Chemistry Virginia W. Cornish 02 Harvard Chemistry Xiaowei Zhuang 37122 Penn Chemistry Jeffrey D. Winkler 1212 Princeton Chemistry Robert Knowles 15622 Yale Chemistry Patrick Holland 6113 Brown Chemistry Lai-Sheng Wang 2533 Harvard Chemistry Emily Balskus 13163 Penn Chemistry Virgil Percec 03 Princeton Chemistry Paul Chirik 6903 Yale Chemistry William Jorgensen 2154 Brown Chemistry Sarah Delaney 944 Harvard Chemistry Jeffrey R. Long 1744 Princeton Chemistry Salvatore Torquato 6404 Yale Chemistry Mark Johnson 05 Brown Chemistry Peter Weber 225 Harvard Chemistry James G. Anderson 815 Princeton Chemistry Tom Muir 4695 Yale Chemistry Seth Herzon 012345CitationsRank

Brown ChemistryDartmouth ChemistryColumbia ChemistryCornell ChemistryHarvard ChemistryPenn ChemistryPrinceton ChemistryYale Chemistry

Rank 5 of 9 at the deepest; 4 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.

What these filters select, per academic not what the graph divided by
Academic Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Eric Jacobsen 1 1/1 1.0% 0/1 0.0% 1/1 1.0% 0 —
F. Jon Kull 1 1/1 1.0% 0/1 0.0% 1/1 1.0% 0 —
Gregory Scholes 1 1/1 1.0% 0/1 0.0% 1/1 1.0% 0 —
Herschel Rabitz 1 1/1 1.0% 0/1 0.0% 1/1 1.0% 0 —
John T. Groves 1 1/1 1.0% 0/1 0.0% 1/1 1.0% 0 —
Mark Johnson 1 1/1 1.0% 0/1 0.0% 1/1 1.0% 0 —
Robert J. Cava 1 1/1 1.0% 0/1 0.0% 1/1 1.0% 0 —
Seth Herzon 1 1/1 1.0% 0/1 0.0% 1/1 1.0% 0 —
Victor Batista 1 1/1 1.0% 0/1 0.0% 1/1 1.0% 0 —
Virgil Percec 1 1/1 1.0% 0/1 0.0% 1/1 1.0% 0 —
Virginia W. Cornish 1 1/1 1.0% 0/1 0.0% 1/1 1.0% 0 —
Richard Stratt 1 1/1 1.0% 0/1 0.0% 1/1 1.0% 1 0/1 0.0%
Barbara A. Baird 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 8 8/8 1.0%
Brenda Rubenstein 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 59 37/59 0.6271186440677966%
David R. Liu 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 91 8/91 0.08791208791208792%
Dirk Trauner 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 59 57/59 0.9661016949152542%
Emily Balskus 1 1/1 1.0% 0/1 0.0% 1/1 1.0% 31 31/31 1.0%
Ivan Aprahamian 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 29 27/29 0.9310344827586207%
James G. Anderson 1 1/1 1.0% 0/1 0.0% 1/1 1.0% 9 4/9 0.4444444444444444%
Jeffrey D. Winkler 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 8 4/8 0.5%
Jeffrey R. Long 1 1/1 1.0% 0/1 0.0% 1/1 1.0% 49 3/49 0.061224489795918366%
Jon Ellman 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 32 31/32 0.96875%
Lai-Sheng Wang 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 15 2/15 0.13333333333333333%
Patrick Holland 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 39 36/39 0.9230769230769231%
Paul Chirik 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 22 22/22 1.0%
Peter Weber 1 1/1 1.0% 0/1 0.0% 1/1 1.0% 5 4/5 0.8%
Robert Knowles 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 36 32/36 0.8888888888888888%
Salvatore Torquato 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 48 44/48 0.9166666666666666%
Sarah Delaney 1 1/1 1.0% 0/1 0.0% 1/1 1.0% 11 11/11 1.0%
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 111 28/111 0.25225225225225223%
Shouheng Sun 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 8 6/8 0.75%
Theodore Betley 1 1/1 1.0% 0/1 0.0% 1/1 1.0% 17 2/17 0.11764705882352941%
Tom Muir 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 9 7/9 0.7777777777777778%
William Jorgensen 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 2 2/2 1.0%
Xiaowei Zhuang 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 18 17/18 0.9444444444444444%
Xiaoyang Zhu 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 44 44/44 1.0%
  • Over the academics these filters select, so a filtered page describes the academics it selected and not the whole department.
  • A row with nothing held draws no mark above: the graph is quiet there because the evidence is missing, not because the work is.
  • What there was to draw from, not what the graph divided by - the graph states its own denominator above.
  • A Scholar profile is attached when at least 3 of the CV titles are found on it, or 30% of them are; one at another institution or under a different name needs 10 titles, and a profile far larger than the CV that holds only a small part of it is refused. Its articles are then checked one by one: what is not a work, or not by this person, is not counted.

Years to promotion

From the PhD to each rank
Series: Brown Chemistry.0.02.04.06.08.010.0Associate Brown Chemistry median of 1 academics 9.09.0AssociateYears 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.

What these filters select, per department not what the graph divided by
Department Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Princeton Chemistry 9 9/9 1.0% 5/9 0.5555555555555556% 9/9 1.0% 225 132/225 0.5866666666666667%
Harvard Chemistry 7 7/7 1.0% 2/7 0.2857142857142857% 7/7 1.0% 215 65/215 0.3023255813953488%
Brown Chemistry 6 6/6 1.0% 3/6 0.5% 6/6 1.0% 98 59/98 0.6020408163265306%
Yale Chemistry 6 6/6 1.0% 3/6 0.5% 6/6 1.0% 73 69/73 0.9452054794520548%
Penn Chemistry 3 3/3 1.0% 2/3 0.6666666666666666% 3/3 1.0% 67 61/67 0.9104477611940298%
Columbia Chemistry 2 2/2 1.0% 1/2 0.5% 2/2 1.0% 44 44/44 1.0%
Dartmouth Chemistry 2 2/2 1.0% 1/2 0.5% 2/2 1.0% 29 27/29 0.9310344827586207%
Cornell Chemistry 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 8 8/8 1.0%
  • Over the academics these filters select, so a filtered page describes the academics it selected and not the whole department.
  • A row with nothing held draws no mark above: the graph is quiet there because the evidence is missing, not because the work is.
  • What there was to draw from, not what the graph divided by - the graph states its own denominator above.
  • A Scholar profile is attached when at least 3 of the CV titles are found on it, or 30% of them are; one at another institution or under a different name needs 10 titles, and a profile far larger than the CV that holds only a small part of it is refused. Its articles are then checked one by one: what is not a work, or not by this person, is not counted.

Journals used

Where these departments place work, by works
Value
Series: value.Journal of the American Chemical SocietyJournal of the American Chemical Society 128128The Journal of Chemical PhysicsThe Journal of Chemical Physics 3131Nature CommunicationsNature Communications 3030Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2323The Journal of Physical Chemistry LettersThe Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2222NatureNature 2020Angewandte Chemie International EditionAngewandte Chemie International Edition 2020Nature BiotechnologyNature Biotechnology 1818Chemical ScienceChemical Science 1616ScienceScience 1414Organic LettersOrganic Letters 1414ACS CatalysisACS Catalysis 1414Journal of Chemical Theory and ComputationJournal of Chemical Theory and Computation 1414CellCell 1111Physical review. EPhysical review. E 1111050100JournalWorks

The twelve venues highest on this reading, of 169.

What these filters select, per department not what the graph divided by
Department Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Princeton Chemistry 9 9/9 1.0% 5/9 0.5555555555555556% 9/9 1.0% 225 132/225 0.5866666666666667%
Harvard Chemistry 7 7/7 1.0% 2/7 0.2857142857142857% 7/7 1.0% 215 65/215 0.3023255813953488%
Brown Chemistry 6 6/6 1.0% 3/6 0.5% 6/6 1.0% 98 59/98 0.6020408163265306%
Yale Chemistry 6 6/6 1.0% 3/6 0.5% 6/6 1.0% 73 69/73 0.9452054794520548%
Penn Chemistry 3 3/3 1.0% 2/3 0.6666666666666666% 3/3 1.0% 67 61/67 0.9104477611940298%
Columbia Chemistry 2 2/2 1.0% 1/2 0.5% 2/2 1.0% 44 44/44 1.0%
Dartmouth Chemistry 2 2/2 1.0% 1/2 0.5% 2/2 1.0% 29 27/29 0.9310344827586207%
Cornell Chemistry 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 8 8/8 1.0%
  • Over the academics these filters select, so a filtered page describes the academics it selected and not the whole department.
  • A row with nothing held draws no mark above: the graph is quiet there because the evidence is missing, not because the work is.
  • What there was to draw from, not what the graph divided by - the graph states its own denominator above.
  • A Scholar profile is attached when at least 3 of the CV titles are found on it, or 30% of them are; one at another institution or under a different name needs 10 titles, and a profile far larger than the CV that holds only a small part of it is refused. Its articles are then checked one by one: what is not a work, or not by this person, is not counted.