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 Yale English Yale · 39 academics 47
2 Columbia English Columbia · 46 academics 45
3 Dartmouth English Dartmouth · 28 academics 35
4 Penn English Penn · 32 academics 34
5 Brown English Brown · 28 academics 31
6 Princeton English Princeton · 29 academics 25
7 Harvard English Harvard · 25 academics 24
8 Cornell English Cornell · 38 academics 9

8,552 citations over 503 of 931 works (54% carry a count). 95 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.0.050.0100.0150.0200.0250.0300.0Distinguished Brown English over 9 academics 10.0Distinguished Columbia English over 4 academics 158.5Distinguished Cornell English over 3 academics 0.0Distinguished Dartmouth English over 2 academics 214.0Distinguished Harvard English over 3 academics 20.0Distinguished Penn English over 6 academics 68.0Distinguished Princeton English over 2 academics 13.5Distinguished Yale English over 7 academics 30.0Full Brown English over 7 academics 7.0Full Columbia English over 3 academics 142.0Full Cornell English over 4 academics 0.0Full Harvard English over 3 academics 0.0Full Princeton English over 1 academics 0.0Full Yale English over 7 academics 3.0Associate Brown English over 6 academics 0.0Associate Columbia English over 1 academics 4.0Associate Cornell English over 11 academics 0.0Associate Dartmouth English over 2 academics 270.5Associate Penn English over 3 academics 21.0Associate Yale English over 4 academics 17.5Assistant Brown English over 2 academics 7.0Assistant Columbia English over 4 academics 7.5Assistant 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 187.0Assistant Princeton English over 1 academics 60.0Assistant Yale English over 8 academics 2.5Unknown 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.02004006008001 Brown English Amanda Anderson 3141 Columbia English Jennifer Wenzel 7451 Cornell English Mary Loeffelholz 1101 Dartmouth English James E. Dobson 5261 Harvard English Martin Puchner 3231 Penn English Paul Saint-Amour 3081 Princeton English Rob Nixon 5511 Yale English Cajetan Iheka 7612 Brown English Dixa Ramirez 1962 Columbia English Bruce Robbins 4492 Cornell English Cathy Caruth 702 Dartmouth English Donald E. Pease 4272 Harvard English Beth Blum 1502 Penn English Rahul Mukherjee 1872 Princeton English Paul Nadal 602 Yale English Caleb Smith 4153 Brown English Timothy Bewes 1243 Columbia English Sharon Marcus 2653 Cornell English Masha Raskolnikov 583 Dartmouth English Aden Evens 153 Harvard English Christopher Pexa 913 Penn English Jean-Christophe Cloutier 1553 Princeton English Robert Spoo 463 Yale English Jonathan Kramnick 2114 Brown English Kevin E. Quashie 724 Columbia English Joseph R. Slaughter 2514 Cornell English Rebeca Hey-Colón 504 Dartmouth English Carolyn Dever 94 Harvard English Tara K. Menon 254 Penn English S. Pearl Brilmyer 1024 Princeton English Zahid R. Chaudhary 374 Yale English John Durham Peters 1235 Brown English Jacques Khalip 345 Columbia English Dennis Yi Tenen 1425 Cornell English Lenora Warren 295 Dartmouth English Matthew Ritger 25 Harvard English Daniel Donoghue 205 Penn English Melissa E. Sanchez 875 Princeton English Simon Gikandi 275 Yale English Erica Edwards 896 Brown English Ralph Rodriguez 336 Columbia English Jenny Davidson 1316 Cornell English Jeremy Braddock 196 Dartmouth English Andrew L. McCann 16 Harvard English Leah Whittington 36 Penn English Zachary Lesser 786 Princeton English Andrew Cole 06 Yale English Juno Jill Richards 757 Brown English James A. Kuzner 267 Columbia English Julie Stone Peters 527 Cornell English Mukoma Wa Ngugi 157 Dartmouth English Alexander Chee 07 Harvard English Amanda Claybaugh 07 Penn English James English 587 Princeton English Anne A. Cheng 07 Yale English Sunny Xiang 358 Brown English Philip Gould 148 Columbia English Carlos Alonso Nugent 208 Cornell English Elizabeth S. Anker 38 Dartmouth English Alysia Garrison 08 Harvard English Anna Wilson 08 Penn English Julia Alekseyeva 368 Princeton English Autumn Womack 08 Yale English Ruth Yeazell 339 Brown English Ada Smailbegovic 119 Columbia English Rebecca Kastleman 99 Cornell English Elisha Cohn 29 Dartmouth English Anjuli F Kolb 09 Harvard English Deidre Shauna Lynch 09 Penn English Sara Kazmi 299 Princeton English Bradin Cormack 09 Yale English David Bromwich 3010 Brown English Leela Gandhi 1010 Columbia English Zoë L. Henry 610 Cornell English Adhy Kim 010 Dartmouth English Barbara Will 010 Harvard English Derek Miller 010 Penn English Dagmawi Woubshet 2310 Princeton English D. Vance Smith 010 Yale English Stephanie Newell 3011 Brown English Ellen Rooney 911 Columbia English Denise Cruz 411 Cornell English Alexandra Kleeman 011 Dartmouth English Colleen Glenney Boggs 011 Harvard English Elaine Scarry 011 Penn English Whitney Trettien 2111 Princeton English Eduardo Cadava 011 Yale English Elleza Kelley 2112 Brown English Kevin McLaughlin 912 Columbia English Alan Stewart 012 Cornell English Andrew Galloway 012 Dartmouth English George Edmondson 012 Harvard English Glenda Carpio 012 Penn English Bakirathi Mani 112 Princeton English Esther Schor 012 Yale English Joan Lubin 913 Brown English Stuart Burrows 713 Columbia English Amy E. Hungerford 013 Cornell English Anna Shechtman 013 Dartmouth English Jeff Sharlet 013 Harvard English Gordon Teskey 013 Penn English Abdulhamit Arvas 013 Princeton English Gayle Salamon 013 Yale English Lloyd Alimboyao Sy 514 Brown English Olakunle George 614 Columbia English Andrew Delbanco 014 Cornell English Caroline Levine 014 Dartmouth English Jessica C. Beckman 014 Harvard English Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 014 Penn English Al Filreis 014 Princeton English Gene Andrew Jarrett 014 Yale English Marcel Elias 415 Brown English Rolland D. Murray 415 Columbia English Austin E. Quigley 015 Cornell English Chelsea Mikael Frazier 015 Dartmouth English Jodi Kim 015 Harvard English Homi Bhabha 015 Penn English Caz Batten 015 Princeton English Jeff Dolven 015 Yale English Priyasha Mukhopadhyay 3123456789101112131415CitationsRank

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, Yale English.0.05.010.015.020.0Associate Brown English median of 2 academics 10.510.5Associate Columbia English median of 1 academics 6.06.0Associate Cornell English median of 2 academics 6.56.5Associate Dartmouth English median of 1 academics 10.010.0Associate Harvard English median of 1 academics 4.04.0Associate Penn English median of 2 academics 9.09.0Associate Yale English median of 3 academics 8.08.0Full or distinguished Brown English median of 4 academics 19.519.5Full or distinguished Columbia English median of 2 academics 19.019.0Full or distinguished Harvard English median of 2 academics 8.58.5Full or distinguished Penn English median of 2 academics 17.517.5Full or distinguished Yale English median of 4 academics 13.013.0AssociateFull or distinguishedYears since the PhDRank reached

Brown EnglishColumbia EnglishCornell EnglishDartmouth EnglishHarvard EnglishPenn 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.African Studies ReviewAfrican Studies Review 1616ELHELH 1515PMLA/Publications of the Modern Lang...ciation of AmericaPMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 1414Critical InquiryCritical Inquiry 1414American Literary HistoryAmerican Literary History 1414boundary 2boundary 2 1313NOVEL A Forum on FictionNOVEL A Forum on Fiction 1212Modern Language QuarterlyModern Language Quarterly 1111differencesdifferences 1010The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary InquiryThe Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 99Modernism/Modernity Print PlusModernism/Modernity Print Plus 99The New York Review of BooksThe New York Review of Books 99051015JournalWorks

The twelve venues highest on this reading, of 256.