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.

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American Literature

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Citation weight

Tierunranked
Weight in force
Weightingoff

Weight inputs

Each figure with its percentile among the ranked journals. A is the median, over the academics with a work here, of that academic’s citations to the works this site counts for them - never a Google Scholar profile total. Over every academic of this field, all years, whatever the filters select.

A · academics’ median191.5 · 13%
B · citations per work25.6 · 65%
N · works38 · 65%
P · academics19 · 67%
Formula result0.625

From this institution

Under these filters. A work with no citation count is unknown here, never a zero.

Works23
Citations546 over 16 of 23 works
Citations per counted work34.1
Weighted citations
Academics16
Departments6
First seen1976

Works placed per year

23 of these 23 works carry a year; an undated work is in no year. Works placed, under these filters.

Departments publishing there 6

DepartmentWorks
Cornell English7
Yale English7
Columbia English4
Brown English2
Dartmouth English2
Princeton English1

A work held by two departments counts once in each, so these add up to more than the works above.

Works placed there 23

YearTitleAcademicsCitations
1976Language and Knowledge in the Late Novels of Henry JamesRuth Yeazell304
1985The American Renaissance Reconsidered: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1982-83.Donald E. Pease65
1991Jean Toomer and the 'New Negroes' of WashingtonGeorge Hutchinson28
2012Harriet Jacobs among the Militants: Transformations in Abolition’s Public Sphere, 1859-61Caleb Smith26
1994Catharine Sedgwick's 'Recital' of the Pequot War.Philip Gould25
2017A Literary Remittance: Juan C. Laya's His Native Soil and the Rise of Realism in the Filipino Novel in EnglishPaul Nadal18
2003‘Victory of LAW’: Melville and ReconstructionDeak Nabers16
1997The Boston Marriage as the Future of the Nation: Queerly Regional Sexuality in Diana VictrixKate McCullough14
2006Reconsidering McTeague’s ‘Mark’ and ‘Mac’: The Intersections of U.S. Naturalism, Imperial Masculinities, and Desire Between Men.Denise Cruz13
2006Emerson and IncarcerationCaleb Smith13
2010The Technê-Whim: Lin Yutang and the Invention of the Chinese TypewriterJohn Williams8
2020Lost Archives, Lost Lands: Rereading New Mexico’s Imagined EnvironmentsCarlos Alonso Nugent6
2011Displacement as Narrative Structure: Refugee Time/Space in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Arabian JazzKate McCullough6
1989Whitman and the Black Poet: Kelly Miller's Speech to the Walt Whitman FellowshipGeorge Hutchinson2
1982The Pleistocene in the Projective: Some of Olson's OriginsGeorge Hutchinson1
2023Ann Petry and the Existential Phenomenology of RaceShane Vogel1
1999‘A Mixture of Delicious and Freak’: The Queer Fiction of Carson McCullersRachel Adams
2020An Overstory for Our TimeRachel Adams
2001America's Sketchbook: The Cultural Life of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Genre, and: Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century AmericaMary Loeffelholz
2001Sentimental collaborations: Mourning and middle-class identity in nineteenth-century AmericaMary Loeffelholz
2025On Impersonal and Personal DataJames E. Dobson
2025The Suspended States of Latinx Literature.Joseph Miranda
2007Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the Us Prison Regime; Fitting Sentences: Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Prison NarrativesCaleb Smith

Citations as counted, before any journal weight: 16 of these 23 works carry a count, and a work with no count is unknown, never a zero.