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

Publications

Citations · the 20 highest of 3,204 works
1 Unclaimed Experience 2016 · Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks · Cathy Caruth 15,786
2 Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor 2011 · Harvard University Press · Rob Nixon 15,171
3 Trauma: Explorations in memory 1995 · jhu Press · Cathy Caruth 7,165
4 Surface Reading: An Introduction 2009 · Representations · Sharon Marcus 2,385
5 Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction 1998 · Columbia University Press; Allen & Unwin; Edinburgh University Press · Leela Gandhi 1,979
6 The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value 2005 · Harvard UP · James English 1,957
7 Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History 1996 · The Johns Hopkins University Press · Cathy Caruth 1,814
8 Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation 1998 · University of Minnesota Press · Bruce Robbins 1,747
9 Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England 2007 · Princeton: Princeton University Press · Sharon Marcus 1,373
10 Human rights, Inc.: The world novel, narrative form, and international law 2009 · Fordham Univ Press · Joseph R. Slaughter 1,331
11 Introduction part I: Actually existing cosmopolitanism 1998 · CULTURAL POLITICS · Bruce Robbins 1,250
12 The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media 2015 · University of Chicago Press · John Durham Peters 1,231
13 Speaking into the Air 1999 · University of Chicago Press · John Durham Peters 1,124
14 The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment 2001 · Princeton University Press · Amanda Anderson 986
15 Trauma and experience: Introduction 1995 · Trauma: Explorations in memory · Cathy Caruth 906
16 Unclaimed Experience: Trauma and the Possibility of History 1991 · Yale French Studies · Cathy Caruth 875
17 Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism 1996 · New York: Columbia University Press · Simon Gikandi 711
18 Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire 1997 · Princeton University Press · Katie Trumpener 705
19 Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-gardes 2006 · Princeton: Princeton University Press · Martin Puchner 692
20 Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama 2002 · Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press · Martin Puchner 633

113,519 citations over 1,826 of 3,204 works (57% carry a count). 119 of 265 academics have at least one counted work. A work with no citation count is unknown here, never a zero.

Works published per year

Publications in each year
Statistic Unit Each point

Every selected work by the year it was published, each work once however many of these departments hold it. 76 carry no year and are on no year.

Citations received per year

Citations in each year
Value Statistic Unit Each point

The works these filters select, whatever year they were published; the year window picks the years the citations arrived in. 988 of 3,204 works carry a year-by-year record inside it.

Notes

A year-by-year record of citations to one work is OpenAlex’s. A Scholar profile counts everything one person wrote and is not about a work, so no Scholar figure is in this chart; the counts beside it still follow the one citation rule.

Citation distribution

How the citations fall across the works
Value
Series: Works.02505007500-1 Works 4444442-10 Works 61361311-100 Works 614614100+ Works 1551550-12-1011-100100+WorksCitations

The 1,826 works that carry a count, by how many citations they have; the last bucket is everything above a hundred. The median is 7. 1,378 works carry no count and are in no bucket.

Citations by age of work

Citations by years since publication
Value Statistic

The total citations of the works published that many years ago, over the works that carry a count. A work with no year is on no point, and a point at the far end is over few works: 1 at the thinnest age.

Kind mix

Citations by kind of work
Value
Series: value.BooksBooks 76,11676,116ArticlesArticles 31,84031,840Edited volumesEdited volumes 5,5635,563020,00040,00060,000KindCitations

The 1,826 works that carry a count, by the kind of work they are. A kind none of whose works carries one is on no bar rather than on a zero. The Kind filter decides which kinds are here at all.

Top venues

Where these works earned their citations
Value
Series: value.Johns Hopkins University Press eBooksJohns Hopkins University Press eBooks 26,35426,354Princeton University Press eBooksPrinceton University Press eBooks 5,2195,219RepresentationsRepresentations 2,9682,968Medical Entomology and ZoologyMedical Entomology and Zoology 2,6252,625University of Minnesota Press eBooksUniversity of Minnesota Press eBooks 2,4382,438Edinburgh University Press eBooksEdinburgh University Press eBooks 1,9941,994PMLA/Publications of the Modern Lang...ciation of AmericaPMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 1,3481,348Critical InquiryCritical Inquiry 1,1541,154Oxford University Press eBooksOxford University Press eBooks 1,1081,108Cambridge University Press eBooksCambridge University Press eBooks 1,0211,021Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) 977977Yale French StudiesYale French Studies 91191105,00010,00015,00020,00025,000VenueCitations

The 12 venues whose works earned the most citations, of 548 holding a selected work; a venue none of whose works carries a count is on no bar rather than on a zero. 1,205 works are in no journal record.