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 Dartmouth English Dartmouth · 28 academics 6
2 Columbia English Columbia · 46 academics 5
3 Yale English Yale · 39 academics 4
4 Brown English Brown · 28 academics 1
5 Princeton English Princeton · 29 academics 1
6 Penn English Penn · 32 academics 1
7 Harvard English Harvard · 25 academics 1
8 Cornell English Cornell · 38 academics 0

690 citations over 153 of 317 works (48% carry a count). 52 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.0.020.040.060.080.0100.0Distinguished Brown English over 9 academics 0.0Distinguished Columbia English over 4 academics 1.5Distinguished Cornell English over 3 academics 0.0Distinguished Dartmouth English over 2 academics 0.0Distinguished Harvard English over 3 academics 0.0Distinguished Penn English over 6 academics 1.5Distinguished Princeton English over 2 academics 0.0Distinguished Yale English over 7 academics 0.0Full Brown English over 7 academics 0.0Full Columbia English over 3 academics 10.0Full 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 0.0Associate Brown English over 6 academics 0.0Associate Columbia English over 1 academics 1.0Associate Cornell English over 11 academics 0.0Associate Dartmouth English over 2 academics 87.5Associate Penn English over 3 academics 3.0Associate Yale English over 4 academics 0.0Assistant Brown English over 2 academics 0.5Assistant Columbia English over 4 academics 3.0Assistant Cornell English over 2 academics 0.0Assistant Dartmouth English over 1 academics 0.0Assistant Harvard English over 1 academics 2.0Assistant Penn English over 1 academics 0.0Assistant Princeton English over 1 academics 18.0Assistant Yale English over 8 academics 0.5Unknown 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.0501001502001 Brown English Amanda Anderson 281 Columbia English Joseph R. Slaughter 1781 Cornell English Lenora Warren 41 Dartmouth English James E. Dobson 1751 Harvard English Christopher Pexa 121 Penn English S. Pearl Brilmyer 91 Princeton English Paul Nadal 181 Yale English Caleb Smith 1022 Brown English James A. Kuzner 32 Columbia English Jennifer Wenzel 252 Cornell English Rebeca Hey-Colón 12 Dartmouth English Aden Evens 02 Harvard English Beth Blum 42 Penn English James English 42 Princeton English Zahid R. Chaudhary 132 Yale English Cajetan Iheka 183 Brown English Timothy Bewes 23 Columbia English Dennis Yi Tenen 103 Cornell English Adhy Kim 03 Dartmouth English Alexander Chee 03 Harvard English Tara K. Menon 23 Penn English Julia Alekseyeva 33 Princeton English Robert Spoo 53 Yale English Sunny Xiang 174 Brown English Benjamin W. Parker 14 Columbia English Carlos Alonso Nugent 54 Cornell English Alexandra Kleeman 04 Dartmouth English Alysia Garrison 04 Harvard English Amanda Claybaugh 04 Penn English Sara Kazmi 34 Princeton English Andrew Cole 04 Yale English John Durham Peters 95 Brown English Connie Scozzaro 15 Columbia English Sharon Marcus 55 Cornell English Andrew Galloway 05 Dartmouth English Andrew L. McCann 05 Harvard English Anna Wilson 05 Penn English Whitney Trettien 35 Princeton English Anne A. Cheng 05 Yale English Lloyd Alimboyao Sy 56 Brown English Daniel Kim 16 Columbia English Zoë L. Henry 46 Cornell English Anna Shechtman 06 Dartmouth English Anjuli F Kolb 06 Harvard English Daniel Donoghue 06 Penn English Paul Saint-Amour 26 Princeton English Autumn Womack 06 Yale English Joan Lubin 37 Brown English Jacques Khalip 17 Columbia English Bruce Robbins 37 Cornell English Caroline Levine 07 Dartmouth English Barbara Will 07 Harvard English Deidre Shauna Lynch 07 Penn English Zachary Lesser 27 Princeton English Bradin Cormack 07 Yale English Olivia Lingyi Xu 28 Brown English Ada Smailbegovic 08 Columbia English Rebecca Kastleman 28 Cornell English Cathy Caruth 08 Dartmouth English Carolyn Dever 08 Harvard English Derek Miller 08 Penn English Bakirathi Mani 18 Princeton English D. Vance Smith 08 Yale English Shane Vogel 29 Brown English Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman 09 Columbia English Denise Cruz 19 Cornell English Chelsea Mikael Frazier 09 Dartmouth English Colleen Glenney Boggs 09 Harvard English Elaine Scarry 09 Penn English Jean-Christophe Cloutier 19 Princeton English Eduardo Cadava 09 Yale English Marcel Elias 110 Brown English Deak Nabers 010 Columbia English Alan Stewart 010 Cornell English Elisha Cohn 010 Dartmouth English Donald E. Pease 010 Harvard English Glenda Carpio 010 Penn English Melissa E. Sanchez 110 Princeton English Esther Schor 010 Yale English Anastasia Eccles 011 Brown English Dixa Ramirez 011 Columbia English Amy E. Hungerford 011 Cornell English Elizabeth S. Anker 011 Dartmouth English George Edmondson 011 Harvard English Gordon Teskey 011 Penn English Abdulhamit Arvas 011 Princeton English Gayle Salamon 011 Yale English Ardis Butterfield 012 Brown English Ellen Rooney 012 Columbia English Andrew Delbanco 012 Cornell English Ellis Hanson 012 Dartmouth English Jeff Sharlet 012 Harvard English Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 012 Penn English Al Filreis 012 Princeton English Gene Andrew Jarrett 012 Yale English Caryl Phillips 013 Brown English Jim Egan 013 Columbia English Austin E. Quigley 013 Cornell English Emily Fridlund 013 Dartmouth English Jessica C. Beckman 013 Harvard English Homi Bhabha 013 Penn English Caz Batten 013 Princeton English Jeff Dolven 013 Yale English Catherine Nicholson 014 Brown English Kevin E. Quashie 014 Columbia English Branka Arsić 014 Cornell English Ernesto Quiñonez 014 Dartmouth English Jodi Kim 014 Harvard English Jesse McCarthy 014 Penn English Chi-ming Yang 014 Princeton English Jeff Nunokawa 014 Yale English David Bromwich 015 Brown English Kevin McLaughlin 015 Columbia English Brent Hayes Edwards 015 Cornell English George Hutchinson 015 Dartmouth English Kimberly Juanita Brown 015 Harvard English John Stauffer 015 Penn English Dagmawi Woubshet 015 Princeton English Joshua Kotin 015 Yale English Elleza Kelley 0123456789101112131415CitationsRank

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, Dartmouth English, Harvard English, Penn English, Yale English.0.05.010.015.020.0Associate Brown English median of 1 academics 12.012.0Associate Dartmouth English median of 1 academics 10.010.0Associate Penn English median of 2 academics 9.09.0Associate Yale English median of 1 academics 8.08.0Full or distinguished Brown English median of 2 academics 19.519.5Full or distinguished Columbia English median of 2 academics 19.019.0Full or distinguished Harvard English median of 1 academics 9.09.0Full or distinguished Yale English median of 2 academics 11.511.5AssociateFull or distinguishedYears since the PhDRank reached

Brown EnglishColumbia 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 1515American Literary HistoryAmerican Literary History 88differencesdifferences 77ELHELH 77Critical InquiryCritical Inquiry 55Modern Language QuarterlyModern Language Quarterly 55boundary 2boundary 2 55The New York Review of BooksThe New York Review of Books 55Value in HealthValue in Health 55RepresentationsRepresentations 44New Literary HistoryNew Literary History 44LeviathanLeviathan 44051015JournalWorks

The twelve venues highest on this reading, of 122.