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 268
1 Nature 3 · 74 works 26,435
2 Journal of the American Chemical Society unranked · 191 works 18,578
3 Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 1 · 3 works 11,875
4 Science 2 · 37 works 11,112
5 The Journal of Chemical Physics unranked · 103 works 10,230
6 Nature Communications 3 · 66 works 8,200
7 Physical Review Letters 2 · 30 works 7,598
8 Chemical Reviews 2 · 12 works 6,441
10 Chemical Science unranked · 43 works 3,261
11 Nature Chemistry 3 · 26 works 3,219
12 Accounts of Chemical Research 2 · 19 works 3,158
13 Nature Nanotechnology 2 · 13 works 3,023
14 Nano Letters 3 · 35 works 3,019
15 Nature Chemical Biology 3 · 21 works 2,950

208,075 citations over 1,712 of 1,797 works (95% carry a count). 64 of 64 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

NatureJournal of the American Chemical SocietyJournal of Physics Condensed MatterScienceThe Journal of Chemical PhysicsNature CommunicationsPhysical Review LettersChemical ReviewsProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesChemical ScienceNature ChemistryAccounts of Chemical ResearchNature NanotechnologyNano LettersNature Chemical Biology

The 15 journals highest on the list, of 268 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 111 2/111 0.018018018018018018% 66/111 0.5945945945945946% 2/111 0.018018018018018018% 1965 1827/1965 0.9297709923664123%
  • 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.Journal of Physics Condensed MatterJournal of Physics Condensed Matter 3,958.33,958.3 over 3 of 3Cell MetabolismCell Metabolism 2,649.02,649.0 over 1 of 1Nature Reviews ChemistryNature Reviews Chemistry 2,366.02,366.0 over 1 of 1Nature reviews. CancerNature reviews. Cancer 1,413.01,413.0 over 1 of 1Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Comp... Molecular ScienceWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Molecular Science 1,265.01,265.0 over 2 of 2Nature PhotonicsNature Photonics 1,010.01,010.0 over 1 of 1Environmental Science & TechnologyEnvironmental Science & Technology 917.0917.0 over 1 of 1CellCell 736.5736.5 over 2 of 2Chemical ReviewsChemical Reviews 536.8536.8 over 12 of 12Nature MethodsNature Methods 398.8398.8 over 4 of 5Nature MedicineNature Medicine 387.0387.0 over 1 of 1NatureNature 357.2357.2 over 74 of 74Journal of Physics D Applied PhysicsJournal of Physics D Applied Physics 354.5354.5 over 2 of 2Nature Reviews PhysicsNature Reviews Physics 335.0335.0 over 3 of 3Nature Biomedical EngineeringNature Biomedical Engineering 318.0318.0 over 1 of 10.01,000.02,000.03,000.0JournalCitations per counted work

The 15 highest of the 260 journals with a counted work. Each bar is over the works of that journal carrying a count, and says how many of how many; 85 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 111 2/111 0.018018018018018018% 66/111 0.5945945945945946% 2/111 0.018018018018018018% 1965 1827/1965 0.9297709923664123%
  • 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 268 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
Cornell Chemistry 25 0/25 0.0% 12/25 0.48% 0/25 0.0% 305 282/305 0.9245901639344263%
Penn Chemistry 20 0/20 0.0% 13/20 0.65% 0/20 0.0% 380 363/380 0.9552631578947368%
Columbia Chemistry 17 0/17 0.0% 9/17 0.5294117647058824% 0/17 0.0% 339 308/339 0.9085545722713865%
Yale Chemistry 14 1/14 0.07142857142857142% 9/14 0.6428571428571429% 1/14 0.07142857142857142% 297 260/297 0.8754208754208754%
Princeton Chemistry 12 0/12 0.0% 6/12 0.5% 0/12 0.0% 161 157/161 0.9751552795031055%
Harvard Chemistry 11 0/11 0.0% 7/11 0.6363636363636364% 0/11 0.0% 242 230/242 0.9504132231404959%
Dartmouth Chemistry 10 1/10 0.1% 8/10 0.8% 1/10 0.1% 203 189/203 0.9310344827586207%
Brown Chemistry 2 0/2 0.0% 2/2 1.0% 0/2 0.0% 50 50/50 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.

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 111 2/111 0.018018018018018018% 66/111 0.5945945945945946% 2/111 0.018018018018018018% 1965 1827/1965 0.9297709923664123%
  • 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.