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 318
1 Nature 3 · 66 works 13,411
2 Journal of the American Chemical Society unranked · 276 works 8,790
3 Chemical Reviews 2 · 12 works 4,343
4 Nature Communications 3 · 88 works 3,635
5 Cell 2 · 13 works 3,102
6 Science 2 · 36 works 3,095
7 The Journal of Chemical Physics unranked · 138 works 2,699
8 The Astrophysical Journal Letters unranked · 5 works 2,520
9 Nature Biotechnology 2 · 23 works 2,224
10 Nature reviews. Cancer unranked · 2 works 1,754
12 Nature Materials 1 · 11 works 1,501
13 Nano Letters 3 · 32 works 1,170
14 Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation unranked · 63 works 1,038
15 Nature Reviews Physics unranked · 4 works 1,006

78,298 citations over 1,762 of 2,185 works (81% carry a count). 126 of 127 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 SocietyChemical ReviewsNature CommunicationsCellScienceThe Journal of Chemical PhysicsThe Astrophysical Journal LettersNature BiotechnologyNature reviews. CancerProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesNature MaterialsNano LettersJournal of Chemical Theory and ComputationNature Reviews Physics

The 15 journals highest on the list, of 318 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 198 89/198 0.4494949494949495% 112/198 0.5656565656565656% 89/198 0.4494949494949495% 2399 1873/2399 0.7807419758232597%
  • 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.Nature reviews. CancerNature reviews. Cancer 877.0877.0 over 2 of 2The Astrophysical Journal LettersThe Astrophysical Journal Letters 504.0504.0 over 5 of 5New England Journal of MedicineNew England Journal of Medicine 441.0441.0 over 1 of 1Chemical ReviewsChemical Reviews 361.9361.9 over 12 of 12CellCell 310.2310.2 over 10 of 13Nature BiotechnologyNature Biotechnology 278.0278.0 over 8 of 23Nature Reviews PhysicsNature Reviews Physics 251.5251.5 over 4 of 4NatureNature 231.2231.2 over 58 of 66Nature NanotechnologyNature Nanotechnology 165.2165.2 over 6 of 8Nature MedicineNature Medicine 149.0149.0 over 2 of 4Small MethodsSmall Methods 145.7145.7 over 3 of 3Nature MaterialsNature Materials 136.5136.5 over 11 of 11Nature Reviews Methods PrimersNature Reviews Methods Primers 116.2116.2 over 4 of 5ScienceScience 114.6114.6 over 27 of 36Annual Review of Physical ChemistryAnnual Review of Physical Chemistry 102.0102.0 over 3 of 40.0200.0400.0600.0800.0JournalCitations per counted work

The 15 highest of the 295 journals with a counted work. Each bar is over the works of that journal carrying a count, and says how many of how many; 423 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 198 89/198 0.4494949494949495% 112/198 0.5656565656565656% 89/198 0.4494949494949495% 2399 1873/2399 0.7807419758232597%
  • 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 318 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
Princeton Chemistry 32 20/32 0.625% 14/32 0.4375% 20/32 0.625% 418 311/418 0.7440191387559809%
Cornell Chemistry 31 6/31 0.1935483870967742% 17/31 0.5483870967741935% 6/31 0.1935483870967742% 309 267/309 0.8640776699029126%
Penn Chemistry 30 10/30 0.3333333333333333% 21/30 0.7% 10/30 0.3333333333333333% 371 332/371 0.894878706199461%
Yale Chemistry 25 12/25 0.48% 14/25 0.56% 12/25 0.48% 281 237/281 0.8434163701067615%
Columbia Chemistry 24 7/24 0.2916666666666667% 11/24 0.4583333333333333% 7/24 0.2916666666666667% 211 182/211 0.8625592417061612%
Harvard Chemistry 22 11/22 0.5% 12/22 0.5454545454545454% 11/22 0.5% 479 291/479 0.6075156576200418%
Brown Chemistry 19 17/19 0.8947368421052632% 13/19 0.6842105263157895% 17/19 0.8947368421052632% 218 159/218 0.7293577981651376%
Dartmouth Chemistry 15 6/15 0.4% 10/15 0.6666666666666666% 6/15 0.4% 159 139/159 0.8742138364779874%
  • 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 198 89/198 0.4494949494949495% 112/198 0.5656565656565656% 89/198 0.4494949494949495% 2399 1873/2399 0.7807419758232597%
  • 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.