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.

27 rows under these filters. Open a row to see where each number came from.
Department University Field Academics Citations per academic Field median Index
Political Science 8 departments 12,529 works · 70% counted 309 4,703 3,880 100
Field

Political Science

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Field

Departments8
Universities8
Academics309
Works12,529

Citations

Citations1,289,624
Citations per academic4,703
Median department3,880
Departments measured8 of 8

The index

A department’s index is its citations per academic over this field’s median, times 100, so the median department here scores 100. The median is over the departments these filters keep.

Harvard Government247
Columbia Political Science208
Penn Political Science118
Dartmouth Government109
Princeton Politics91
Yale Political Science82
Cornell Government47
Brown Political Science46

Coverage

Coverage differs by field - Political Science 70% of the selected works carry a citation count - so the index compares standing within a field and never absolute impact across fields.

Works with a count8,814 of 12,529
Share70%
Academics with one283 of 309

Where the gap is

Scholar for 7,445 works, OpenAlex for 1,369, 3,715 with no count. A work with no count is unknown here and is never counted as a zero.

Articles70% of 12,529
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