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 Penn English Penn · 32 academics 21
2 Yale English Yale · 39 academics 21
3 Columbia English Columbia · 46 academics 18
4 Brown English Brown · 28 academics 11
5 Dartmouth English Dartmouth · 28 academics 8
6 Princeton English Princeton · 29 academics 7
7 Harvard English Harvard · 25 academics 4
8 Cornell English Cornell · 38 academics 3

3,301 citations over 398 of 697 works (57% carry a count). 86 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.0.050.0100.0150.0200.0Distinguished Brown English over 9 academics 9.0Distinguished Columbia English over 4 academics 23.5Distinguished Cornell English over 3 academics 0.0Distinguished Dartmouth English over 2 academics 0.5Distinguished Harvard English over 3 academics 0.0Distinguished Penn English over 6 academics 23.0Distinguished Princeton English over 2 academics 13.5Distinguished Yale English over 7 academics 13.0Full Brown English over 7 academics 2.0Full Columbia English over 3 academics 46.0Full 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 2.0Associate 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 111.5Associate Penn English over 3 academics 8.0Associate Yale English over 4 academics 8.0Assistant 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 162.0Assistant Princeton English over 1 academics 60.0Assistant Yale English over 8 academics 2.0Unknown 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.01002003004001 Brown English Timothy Bewes 1241 Columbia English Jennifer Wenzel 3971 Cornell English Cathy Caruth 701 Dartmouth English James E. Dobson 2231 Harvard English Beth Blum 431 Penn English Paul Saint-Amour 3081 Princeton English Paul Nadal 601 Yale English Caleb Smith 3972 Brown English Amanda Anderson 522 Columbia English Joseph R. Slaughter 2052 Cornell English Jeremy Braddock 192 Dartmouth English Matthew Ritger 22 Harvard English Christopher Pexa 252 Penn English Rahul Mukherjee 1622 Princeton English Rob Nixon 482 Yale English Jonathan Kramnick 943 Brown English Ralph Rodriguez 333 Columbia English Bruce Robbins 1163 Cornell English Rebeca Hey-Colón 93 Dartmouth English Andrew L. McCann 13 Harvard English Tara K. Menon 253 Penn English S. Pearl Brilmyer 483 Princeton English Zahid R. Chaudhary 373 Yale English Cajetan Iheka 914 Brown English Kevin E. Quashie 294 Columbia English Sharon Marcus 474 Cornell English Lenora Warren 74 Dartmouth English Aden Evens 04 Harvard English Leah Whittington 34 Penn English James English 424 Princeton English Robert Spoo 274 Yale English John Durham Peters 835 Brown English Philip Gould 145 Columbia English Dennis Yi Tenen 465 Cornell English Elizabeth S. Anker 35 Dartmouth English Alexander Chee 05 Harvard English Amanda Claybaugh 05 Penn English Sara Kazmi 295 Princeton English Simon Gikandi 275 Yale English Ruth Yeazell 336 Brown English James A. Kuzner 136 Columbia English Carlos Alonso Nugent 206 Cornell English Elisha Cohn 26 Dartmouth English Alysia Garrison 06 Harvard English Anna Wilson 06 Penn English Melissa E. Sanchez 276 Princeton English Andrew Cole 06 Yale English Sunny Xiang 277 Brown English Ada Smailbegovic 117 Columbia English Rebecca Kastleman 97 Cornell English Adhy Kim 07 Dartmouth English Anjuli F Kolb 07 Harvard English Daniel Donoghue 07 Penn English Dagmawi Woubshet 237 Princeton English Anne A. Cheng 07 Yale English Elleza Kelley 218 Brown English Dixa Ramirez 98 Columbia English Zoë L. Henry 68 Cornell English Alexandra Kleeman 08 Dartmouth English Barbara Will 08 Harvard English Deidre Shauna Lynch 08 Penn English Zachary Lesser 198 Princeton English Autumn Womack 08 Yale English Juno Jill Richards 169 Brown English Ellen Rooney 99 Columbia English Denise Cruz 49 Cornell English Andrew Galloway 09 Dartmouth English Carolyn Dever 09 Harvard English Derek Miller 09 Penn English Julia Alekseyeva 169 Princeton English Bradin Cormack 09 Yale English Stephanie Newell 1310 Brown English Stuart Burrows 710 Columbia English Alan Stewart 010 Cornell English Anna Shechtman 010 Dartmouth English Colleen Glenney Boggs 010 Harvard English Elaine Scarry 010 Penn English Whitney Trettien 810 Princeton English D. Vance Smith 010 Yale English David Bromwich 1111 Brown English Rolland D. Murray 411 Columbia English Amy E. Hungerford 011 Cornell English Caroline Levine 011 Dartmouth English Donald E. Pease 011 Harvard English Glenda Carpio 011 Penn English Jean-Christophe Cloutier 211 Princeton English Eduardo Cadava 011 Yale English Erica Edwards 912 Brown English Connie Scozzaro 312 Columbia English Andrew Delbanco 012 Cornell English Chelsea Mikael Frazier 012 Dartmouth English George Edmondson 012 Harvard English Gordon Teskey 012 Penn English Bakirathi Mani 112 Princeton English Esther Schor 012 Yale English Joan Lubin 913 Brown English Kevin McLaughlin 313 Columbia English Austin E. Quigley 013 Cornell English Ellis Hanson 013 Dartmouth English Jeff Sharlet 013 Harvard English Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 013 Penn English Abdulhamit Arvas 013 Princeton English Gayle Salamon 013 Yale English Lloyd Alimboyao Sy 514 Brown English Jacques Khalip 214 Columbia English Branka Arsić 014 Cornell English Emily Fridlund 014 Dartmouth English Jessica C. Beckman 014 Harvard English Homi Bhabha 014 Penn English Al Filreis 014 Princeton English Gene Andrew Jarrett 014 Yale English Priyasha Mukhopadhyay 315 Brown English Leela Gandhi 215 Columbia English Brent Hayes Edwards 015 Cornell English Ernesto Quiñonez 015 Dartmouth English Jodi Kim 015 Harvard English Jesse McCarthy 015 Penn English Caz Batten 015 Princeton English Jeff Dolven 015 Yale English Marcel Elias 2123456789101112131415CitationsRank

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 1313Modern Language QuarterlyModern Language Quarterly 1111NOVEL A Forum on FictionNOVEL A Forum on Fiction 1010The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary InquiryThe Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 99differencesdifferences 99The New York Review of BooksThe New York Review of Books 99New Literary HistoryNew Literary History 88051015JournalWorks

The twelve venues highest on this reading, of 237.