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

Journals

Citations · the 20 highest of 842
1 Journal of the American Chemical Society unranked · 2,122 works 353,210
2 Science A · 273 works 167,585
3 The Journal of Chemical Physics unranked · 1,103 works 139,718
4 Nature B · 224 works 131,057
5 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences B · 424 works 86,360
6 Physical Review Letters A · 261 works 77,773
7 Journal of Physics Condensed Matter A* · 20 works 63,918
8 Chemical Reviews A · 56 works 47,271
9 Angewandte Chemie International Edition unranked · 409 works 45,919
10 Nano Letters B · 196 works 41,273
11 Accounts of Chemical Research A · 124 works 34,191
12 Nature Communications B · 226 works 33,807
13 Cell A · 54 works 29,946
14 The Journal of Physical Chemistry B B · 211 works 29,479
15 Nature Materials A* · 43 works 26,900
16 Physical Review B A · 141 works 26,306
17 Nature Methods A* · 41 works 24,680
18 Biochemistry unranked · 251 works 22,850
19 Nature Biotechnology A · 48 works 21,545
20 Nature Chemical Biology B · 99 works 21,290

2,139,521 citations over 12,536 of 14,480 works (87% carry a count). 139 of 139 academics have at least one counted work. A work with no citation count is unknown here, never a zero.

Works placed per year

Works published in each year
Value Each point

The 1 journals highest on the list, of 842 these filters select. A publication count is over every selected work; an undated work is in no year.

Mean citations per work

Citations a work in the venue carries
Statistic
Series: value.Journal of the American Chemical SocietyJournal of the American Chemical Society 190.0190.0 over 1,859 of 2,1220.050.0100.0150.0JournalCitations per counted work

The 1 highest of the 1 journals with a counted work. Each bar is over the works of that journal carrying a count, and says how many of how many; 263 selected works carry no count and are in no bar. Citations as counted, before any journal weight: the weight is what the next chart is testing.

Which departments publish there

Works placed in these journals, by department
Value
Series: value.Yale ChemistryYale Chemistry 429429Princeton ChemistryPrinceton Chemistry 358358Penn ChemistryPenn Chemistry 355355Harvard ChemistryHarvard Chemistry 288288Brown ChemistryBrown Chemistry 234234Columbia ChemistryColumbia Chemistry 225225Cornell ChemistryCornell Chemistry 181181Dartmouth ChemistryDartmouth Chemistry 1171170100200300400DepartmentWorks

Every department with a work in the 1 journals the charts are about. A work by two departments counts once in each.

Weight against citations per work

What each weight band is cited

Nothing to draw under these filters.

Every journal the charts are about weighs the same under the current citation weight, so there is nothing to compare. Set a weight in the Citation weight pane.