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

Journalshere

Fields

  • 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

Journals

Citations · the 15 highest of 300
1 Representations 2 · 19 works 2,894
2 Medical Entomology and Zoology 2 · 20 works 2,453
3 Yale French Studies unranked · 3 works 911
5 American imago unranked · 8 works 759
6 New Literary History 2 · 10 works 707
7 Comparative Literature unranked · 3 works 701
8 boundary 2 unranked · 38 works 608
9 Critical Inquiry 1 · 21 works 590
10 NOVEL A Forum on Fiction unranked · 35 works 558
11 Social Text 3 · 12 works 558
12 Modernism/modernity 3 · 12 works 551
13 Choice Reviews Online unranked · 1 works 511
14 Eighteenth-Century Studies unranked · 7 works 499
15 differences unranked · 16 works 465

24,440 citations over 737 of 942 works (78% carry a count). 34 of 36 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

RepresentationsMedical Entomology and ZoologyYale French StudiesPMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of AmericaAmerican imagoNew Literary HistoryComparative Literatureboundary 2Critical InquiryNOVEL A Forum on FictionSocial TextModernism/modernityChoice Reviews OnlineEighteenth-Century Studiesdifferences

The 15 journals highest on the list, of 300 these filters select. A publication count is over every selected work; an undated work is in no year.

What these filters select, over everything selected not what the graph divided by
Selected Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Everything selected 36 36/36 1.0% 10/36 0.2777777777777778% 34/36 0.9444444444444444% 1631 978/1631 0.5996321275291232%
  • 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.

Mean citations per work

Citations a work in the venue carries
Measure
Series: value.Choice Reviews OnlineChoice Reviews Online 511.0511.0 over 1 of 1Journal of American HistoryJournal of American History 427.0427.0 over 1 of 1Yale French StudiesYale French Studies 303.7303.7 over 3 of 3Modern Language StudiesModern Language Studies 240.0240.0 over 1 of 1Comparative LiteratureComparative Literature 233.7233.7 over 3 of 3SignsSigns 227.0227.0 over 1 of 1RepresentationsRepresentations 222.6222.6 over 13 of 19Journal for Cultural ResearchJournal for Cultural Research 209.0209.0 over 1 of 1American imagoAmerican imago 151.8151.8 over 5 of 8Medical Entomology and ZoologyMedical Entomology and Zoology 136.3136.3 over 18 of 20Journal of Communication InquiryJournal of Communication Inquiry 125.0125.0 over 1 of 1South Atlantic ReviewSouth Atlantic Review 116.0116.0 over 2 of 2Political TheoryPolitical Theory 102.0102.0 over 1 of 1The Yearbook of English StudiesThe Yearbook of English Studies 90.590.5 over 4 of 4Media Culture & SocietyMedia Culture & Society 90.090.0 over 2 of 30.0100.0200.0300.0400.0500.0JournalCitations per counted work

The 15 highest of the 265 journals with a counted work. Each bar is over the works of that journal carrying a count, and says how many of how many; 205 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.

What these filters select, over everything selected not what the graph divided by
Selected Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Everything selected 36 36/36 1.0% 10/36 0.2777777777777778% 34/36 0.9444444444444444% 1631 978/1631 0.5996321275291232%
  • 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.

Which departments publish in which journal

What each department placed in each of these journals.
Value

The 10 journals highest on the list, of 300 these filters select, against the 8 departments with most in them. A work by two departments counts once in each, and a work by two academics of one department counts once in theirs. A pair that placed nothing is a dot.

What these filters select, per department not what the graph divided by
Department Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Brown English 9 9/9 1.0% 2/9 0.2222222222222222% 9/9 1.0% 258 186/258 0.7209302325581395%
Yale English 7 7/7 1.0% 1/7 0.14285714285714285% 6/7 0.8571428571428571% 343 193/343 0.5626822157434402%
Penn English 6 6/6 1.0% 3/6 0.5% 5/6 0.8333333333333334% 175 108/175 0.6171428571428571%
Columbia English 4 4/4 1.0% 2/4 0.5% 4/4 1.0% 304 205/304 0.6743421052631579%
Cornell English 3 3/3 1.0% 1/3 0.3333333333333333% 3/3 1.0% 109 69/109 0.6330275229357798%
Harvard English 3 3/3 1.0% 1/3 0.3333333333333333% 3/3 1.0% 168 80/168 0.47619047619047616%
Dartmouth English 2 2/2 1.0% 0/2 0.0% 2/2 1.0% 168 63/168 0.375%
Princeton English 2 2/2 1.0% 0/2 0.0% 2/2 1.0% 106 74/106 0.6981132075471698%
  • 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.

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.

What these filters select, over everything selected not what the graph divided by
Selected Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Everything selected 36 36/36 1.0% 10/36 0.2777777777777778% 34/36 0.9444444444444444% 1631 978/1631 0.5996321275291232%
  • 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.