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

Departments

  • 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

Fieldshere

  • 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

Search the whole site

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.

Value Measure

Departments, across fields

Field index · the median department of each field is 100
19 Yale English 47
22 Penn English 25

A department’s index is its citations per academic divided by the median citations per academic of the departments of its own field, times 100. The median is over the departments these filters keep, so narrowing to three departments of a field moves that field’s own middle. Raw citations only (docs/ui-redesign.md section 5): neither the citation weighting nor a publication count moves this tab.

57,356 citations over 1,289 of 2,135 works (60% carry a count). 127 of 172 academics have at least one counted work. A work with no citation count is unknown here, never a zero.

Mean citations per academic by field

Where each field’s departments sit on mean citations per academic
Measure
Series: Lowest department, Median department, Highest department.05001,0001,5002,000Political Science Lowest department Yale Political Science 172172Political Science Median department 8 measured 331331Political Science Highest department Dartmouth Government 818818Chemistry Lowest department Cornell Chemistry 134134Chemistry Median department 8 measured 400400Chemistry Highest department Columbia Chemistry 1,7411,741English Lowest department Penn English 44English Median department 6 measured 1717English Highest department Dartmouth English 214214Political ScienceChemistryEnglishMean citations per academicField

Lowest departmentMedian departmentHighest department

The spread of the departments inside each field, on one axis: the middle bar is the median that anchors that field’s index, and the distance between the outer two is what an index of 120 is measured against.

What these filters select, per department not what the graph divided by
Department Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Cornell English 3 3/3 1.0% 1/3 0.3333333333333333% 3/3 1.0% 7 0/7 0.0%
Princeton English 2 2/2 1.0% 0/2 0.0% 2/2 1.0% 1 0/1 0.0%
Harvard Government 24 24/24 1.0% 16/24 0.6666666666666666% 23/24 0.9583333333333334% 256 189/256 0.73828125%
Penn Political Science 15 15/15 1.0% 14/15 0.9333333333333333% 15/15 1.0% 197 117/197 0.5939086294416244%
Princeton Politics 13 13/13 1.0% 9/13 0.6923076923076923% 12/13 0.9230769230769231% 96 73/96 0.7604166666666666%
Brown Political Science 12 12/12 1.0% 7/12 0.5833333333333334% 12/12 1.0% 103 59/103 0.5728155339805825%
Columbia Political Science 12 12/12 1.0% 8/12 0.6666666666666666% 12/12 1.0% 279 141/279 0.5053763440860215%
Yale Political Science 11 11/11 1.0% 10/11 0.9090909090909091% 11/11 1.0% 96 79/96 0.8229166666666666%
Brown English 9 9/9 1.0% 2/9 0.2222222222222222% 9/9 1.0% 17 10/17 0.5882352941176471%
Princeton Chemistry 9 9/9 1.0% 5/9 0.5555555555555556% 9/9 1.0% 225 132/225 0.5866666666666667%
Dartmouth Government 7 7/7 1.0% 6/7 0.8571428571428571% 7/7 1.0% 65 57/65 0.8769230769230769%
Harvard Chemistry 7 7/7 1.0% 2/7 0.2857142857142857% 7/7 1.0% 215 65/215 0.3023255813953488%
Yale English 7 7/7 1.0% 1/7 0.14285714285714285% 6/7 0.8571428571428571% 32 8/32 0.25%
Brown Chemistry 6 6/6 1.0% 3/6 0.5% 6/6 1.0% 98 59/98 0.6020408163265306%
Cornell Government 6 6/6 1.0% 5/6 0.8333333333333334% 6/6 1.0% 115 69/115 0.6%
Penn English 6 6/6 1.0% 3/6 0.5% 5/6 0.8333333333333334% 29 14/29 0.4827586206896552%
Yale Chemistry 6 6/6 1.0% 3/6 0.5% 6/6 1.0% 73 69/73 0.9452054794520548%
Columbia English 4 4/4 1.0% 2/4 0.5% 4/4 1.0% 31 10/31 0.3225806451612903%
Harvard English 3 3/3 1.0% 1/3 0.3333333333333333% 3/3 1.0% 13 2/13 0.15384615384615385%
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%
Dartmouth English 2 2/2 1.0% 0/2 0.0% 2/2 1.0% 45 1/45 0.022222222222222223%
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.

University rollup

The mean index of a university’s departments
Series: value.DartmouthDartmouth 534534 · 3 departmentsColumbiaColumbia 234234 · 3 departmentsHarvardHarvard 192192 · 3 departmentsPrincetonPrinceton 9898 · 2 of 3 departmentsBrownBrown 9090 · 3 departmentsCornellCornell 7878 · 2 of 3 departmentsPennPenn 7373 · 3 departmentsYaleYale 6161 · 3 departments0100200300400500UniversityMean field index

Each university’s departments averaged on the index, which is the only figure of theirs that crosses fields. A department with no index is out of the mean and the end of the bar says how many were in it.

What these filters select, per university not what the graph divided by
University Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Harvard 34 34/34 1.0% 19/34 0.5588235294117647% 33/34 0.9705882352941176% 484 256/484 0.5289256198347108%
Brown 27 27/27 1.0% 12/27 0.4444444444444444% 27/27 1.0% 218 128/218 0.5871559633027523%
Penn 24 24/24 1.0% 19/24 0.7916666666666666% 23/24 0.9583333333333334% 293 192/293 0.6552901023890785%
Princeton 24 24/24 1.0% 14/24 0.5833333333333334% 23/24 0.9583333333333334% 322 205/322 0.6366459627329193%
Yale 24 24/24 1.0% 14/24 0.5833333333333334% 23/24 0.9583333333333334% 201 156/201 0.7761194029850746%
Columbia 18 18/18 1.0% 11/18 0.6111111111111112% 18/18 1.0% 354 195/354 0.5508474576271186%
Dartmouth 11 11/11 1.0% 7/11 0.6363636363636364% 11/11 1.0% 139 85/139 0.6115107913669064%
Cornell 10 10/10 1.0% 7/10 0.7% 10/10 1.0% 130 77/130 0.5923076923076923%
  • 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.

Coverage by field

Works carrying a citation count
Series: value.Political SciencePolitical Science 6565% · 779 of 1,201 worksChemistryChemistry 6161% · 465 of 759 worksEnglishEnglish 2626% · 45 of 175 works02550FieldPer cent of the selected works with a citation count

Coverage differs by field - Political Science 65%, Chemistry 61%, English 26% of the selected works carry a citation count - so the index compares standing within a field and never absolute impact across fields.

What these filters select, per field not what the graph divided by
Field Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Political Science 100 100/100 1.0% 75/100 0.75% 98/100 0.98% 1201 779/1201 0.6486261448792673%
Chemistry 36 36/36 1.0% 18/36 0.5% 36/36 1.0% 759 465/759 0.6126482213438735%
English 36 36/36 1.0% 10/36 0.2777777777777778% 34/36 0.9444444444444444% 175 45/175 0.2571428571428571%
  • 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.
Notes

A work takes its verified Scholar profile’s count, else OpenAlex’s; a work with neither is unknown and is never filled in with a zero (docs/definitions.md section 6). Books and chapters are covered worst, which is why the fields that write them sit lowest here.