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

Departments

Citations by mean * log(1 + people)
1 Columbia English Columbia · 46 academics 3,128.1
2 Princeton English Princeton · 29 academics 1,781.7
3 Cornell English Cornell · 38 academics 851.4
4 Yale English Yale · 39 academics 771.9
5 Penn English Penn · 32 academics 742.9
6 Dartmouth English Dartmouth · 28 academics 699.9
7 Harvard English Harvard · 25 academics 465.9
8 Brown English Brown · 28 academics 364.7

31,840 citations over 1,456 of 2,492 works (58% carry a count). 118 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

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

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

Citations by mean * log(1 + people) at each rank
Value Statistic
Series: Brown English, Columbia English, Cornell English, Dartmouth English, Harvard English, Penn English, Princeton English, Yale English.0.01,000.02,000.03,000.04,000.0Distinguished Brown English over 9 academics 540.1Distinguished Columbia English over 4 academics 3,322.7Distinguished Cornell English over 3 academics 1,922.8Distinguished Dartmouth English over 2 academics 357.6Distinguished Harvard English over 3 academics 488.0Distinguished Penn English over 6 academics 728.4Distinguished Princeton English over 2 academics 602.6Distinguished Yale English over 7 academics 888.2Full Brown English over 7 academics 80.8Full Columbia English over 3 academics 602.1Full Cornell English over 4 academics 13.7Full Harvard English over 3 academics 50.4Full Princeton English over 1 academics 0.0Full Yale English over 7 academics 468.8Associate Brown English over 6 academics 74.6Associate Columbia English over 1 academics 51.3Associate Cornell English over 11 academics 98.9Associate Dartmouth English over 2 academics 392.2Associate Penn English over 3 academics 79.5Associate Yale English over 4 academics 58.7Assistant Brown English over 2 academics 14.3Assistant Columbia English over 4 academics 16.1Assistant Cornell English over 2 academics 0.0Assistant Dartmouth English over 1 academics 1.4Assistant Harvard English over 1 academics 17.3Assistant Penn English over 1 academics 130.3Assistant Princeton English over 1 academics 41.6Assistant Yale English over 8 academics 21.4Unknown Brown English over 4 academics 27.8Unknown Columbia English over 34 academics 92.8Unknown Cornell English over 17 academics 81.6Unknown Dartmouth English over 23 academics 12.2Unknown Harvard English over 18 academics 15.9Unknown Penn English over 22 academics 22.2Unknown Princeton English over 25 academics 258.8Unknown Yale English over 13 academics 4.3Other Cornell English over 1 academics 0.0DistinguishedFullAssociateAssistantUnknownOtherCitations by mean * log(1 + people)Rank

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.0100020003000400050001 Brown English Timothy Bewes 5671 Columbia English Bruce Robbins 43511 Cornell English Cathy Caruth 38771 Dartmouth English James E. Dobson 6371 Harvard English Martin Puchner 6171 Penn English Paul Saint-Amour 7571 Princeton English Rob Nixon 14251 Yale English John Durham Peters 12992 Brown English Amanda Anderson 5402 Columbia English Sharon Marcus 34682 Cornell English Ellis Hanson 2202 Dartmouth English Donald E. Pease 5642 Harvard English Elaine Scarry 4042 Penn English James English 6762 Princeton English Simon Gikandi 9822 Yale English Caleb Smith 10153 Brown English Ellen Rooney 3663 Columbia English Jennifer Wenzel 12233 Cornell English George Hutchinson 1643 Dartmouth English Andrew L. McCann 873 Harvard English John Stauffer 713 Penn English Zachary Lesser 5193 Princeton English Robert Spoo 3793 Yale English Ruth Yeazell 6084 Brown English Philip Gould 1934 Columbia English Joseph R. Slaughter 8074 Cornell English Mary Loeffelholz 1424 Dartmouth English Carolyn Dever 804 Harvard English Beth Blum 514 Penn English Rahul Mukherjee 1884 Princeton English Zahid R. Chaudhary 1824 Yale English Jonathan Kramnick 3935 Brown English Marc Redfield 1755 Columbia English Julie Stone Peters 2275 Cornell English Laura Brown 1205 Dartmouth English Aden Evens 775 Harvard English Christopher Pexa 465 Penn English Melissa E. Sanchez 1825 Princeton English Nigel Smith 1155 Yale English Stephanie Newell 3136 Brown English Rolland D. Murray 1016 Columbia English Nicholas Dames 2126 Cornell English Elizabeth S. Anker 1156 Dartmouth English Melissa F. Zeiger 86 Harvard English Daniel Donoghue 356 Penn English S. Pearl Brilmyer 1216 Princeton English Paul Nadal 606 Yale English Katie Trumpener 2527 Brown English Kevin E. Quashie 907 Columbia English Dennis Yi Tenen 807 Cornell English Chelsea Mikael Frazier 957 Dartmouth English Matthew Ritger 27 Harvard English Tara K. Menon 257 Penn English Bakirathi Mani 1127 Princeton English Andrew Cole 07 Yale English Erica Edwards 1538 Brown English Leela Gandhi 818 Columbia English Jenny Davidson 808 Cornell English Elisha Cohn 928 Dartmouth English Alexander Chee 08 Harvard English Derek Miller 238 Penn English Dagmawi Woubshet 748 Princeton English Anne A. Cheng 08 Yale English Shane Vogel 1529 Brown English James A. Kuzner 719 Columbia English Denise Cruz 749 Cornell English Jeremy Braddock 579 Dartmouth English Alysia Garrison 09 Harvard English Leah Whittington 159 Penn English Jean-Christophe Cloutier 379 Princeton English Autumn Womack 09 Yale English David Bromwich 12510 Brown English Dixa Ramirez 6910 Columbia English Carlos Alonso Nugent 2010 Cornell English Masha Raskolnikov 4210 Dartmouth English Anjuli F Kolb 010 Harvard English Amanda Claybaugh 010 Penn English Whitney Trettien 3310 Princeton English Bradin Cormack 010 Yale English John Williams 10911 Brown English Deak Nabers 5411 Columbia English Rebecca Kastleman 1411 Cornell English Kevin Attell 3611 Dartmouth English Barbara Will 011 Harvard English Anna Wilson 011 Penn English Sara Kazmi 2911 Princeton English D. Vance Smith 011 Yale English Cajetan Iheka 10512 Brown English Richard Rambuss 5212 Columbia English Zoë L. Henry 612 Cornell English Kate McCullough 3512 Dartmouth English Colleen Glenney Boggs 012 Harvard English Deidre Shauna Lynch 012 Penn English Herman Beavers 1812 Princeton English Eduardo Cadava 012 Yale English Emily Thornbury 9413 Brown English Ralph Rodriguez 5013 Columbia English Alan Stewart 013 Cornell English Mary Pat Brady 2613 Dartmouth English George Edmondson 013 Harvard English Glenda Carpio 013 Penn English Julia Alekseyeva 1613 Princeton English Esther Schor 013 Yale English Priyasha Mukhopadhyay 5514 Brown English Kevin McLaughlin 4714 Columbia English Amy E. Hungerford 014 Cornell English Roger Gilbert 2514 Dartmouth English Jeff Sharlet 014 Harvard English Gordon Teskey 014 Penn English Abdulhamit Arvas 014 Princeton English Gayle Salamon 014 Yale English Jessica Brantley 4415 Brown English Stuart Burrows 4515 Columbia English Andrew Delbanco 015 Cornell English Lenora Warren 1415 Dartmouth English Jessica C. Beckman 015 Harvard English Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 015 Penn English Al Filreis 015 Princeton English Gene Andrew Jarrett 015 Yale English Sunny Xiang 30123456789101112131415CitationsRank

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, Princeton English, Yale English.0.05.010.015.020.0Associate Brown English median of 16 academics 7.07.0Associate Columbia English median of 8 academics 6.06.0Associate Cornell English median of 13 academics 6.06.0Associate Dartmouth English median of 3 academics 10.010.0Associate Harvard English median of 4 academics 4.54.5Associate Penn English median of 8 academics 7.07.0Associate Princeton English median of 2 academics 6.06.0Associate Yale English median of 12 academics 6.06.0Full or distinguished Brown English median of 13 academics 14.014.0Full or distinguished Columbia English median of 6 academics 13.513.5Full or distinguished Cornell English median of 5 academics 12.012.0Full or distinguished Dartmouth English median of 2 academics 9.59.5Full or distinguished Harvard English median of 5 academics 8.08.0Full or distinguished Penn English median of 6 academics 16.016.0Full or distinguished Princeton English median of 3 academics 14.014.0Full or distinguished Yale English median of 12 academics 11.511.5AssociateFull or distinguishedYears since the PhDRank reached

Brown EnglishColumbia EnglishCornell EnglishDartmouth EnglishHarvard EnglishPenn EnglishPrinceton 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.PMLA/Publications of the Modern Lang...ciation of AmericaPMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 6767boundary 2boundary 2 4242NOVEL A Forum on FictionNOVEL A Forum on Fiction 4141ELHELH 3333American Literary HistoryAmerican Literary History 3333Critical InquiryCritical Inquiry 3232CallalooCallaloo 2929differencesdifferences 2727Victorian StudiesVictorian Studies 2727Modern Language QuarterlyModern Language Quarterly 2424James Joyce quarterlyJames Joyce quarterly 2323RepresentationsRepresentations 222202550JournalWorks

The twelve venues highest on this reading, of 507.