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

Publicationshere

  • 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

Journals

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.
Trackademia
Value Measure

Publications

Citations · the 15 highest of 355 works
1 Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor 2011 · Harvard University Press · Rob Nixon 15,171
2 Human rights, Inc.: The world novel, narrative form, and international law 2009 · Fordham Univ Press · Joseph R. Slaughter 1,331
3 Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African culture and the world beyond 2022 · Taylor & Francis · Rob Nixon 503
4 London calling: VS Naipaul, postcolonial mandarin 1992 · Oxford University Press · Rob Nixon 488
5 African and Caribbean Appropriations of The Tempest 1987 · Critical Inquiry · Rob Nixon 335
6 Beyond consolation: death, sexuality, and the changing shapes of elegy 1997 · Cornell University Press · Melissa F. Zeiger 265
7 The literary channel: the inter-national invention of the novel 2009 · Princeton University Press · Carolyn Dever 243
8 Neoliberalism, slow violence, and the environmental picaresque 2009 · MFS Modern Fiction Studies · Rob Nixon 204
9 Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film 1999 · Duke UP · Ellis Hanson 202
10 Colonial phantoms: Belonging and refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th century to the present 2018 · NYU Press · Dixa Ramirez 187
11 Hijacking Human Rights: Neoliberalism, the New Historiography, and the End of the Third World’(2018) undated · Human Rights Quarterly · Joseph R. Slaughter 178
12 James Joyce and the Language of History: Dedalus's Nightmare 1994 · Oxford University Press · Robert Spoo 169
13 Enabling fictions and novel subjects: The Bildungsroman and international human rights law 2006 · PMlA · Joseph R. Slaughter 165
14 Prologue to Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain 2013 · Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain, Oxford · Robert Spoo 147
15 The calendar of loss: race, sexuality, and mourning in the early era of AIDS 2015 · JHU Press · Dagmawi Woubshet 140

24,032 citations over 256 of 355 works (72% carry a count). 20 of 156 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
Measure X axis Each point

Every selected work by the year it was published, each work once however many of these departments hold it. 6 carry no year and are on no year.

What these filters select, over everything selected not what the graph divided by
Selected Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Everything selected 156 6/156 0.038461538461538464% 18/156 0.11538461538461539% 2/156 0.01282051282051282% 355 256/355 0.7211267605633803%
  • 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.

Citations received per year

Citations in each year
Value Measure Each point

The works these filters select, whatever year they were published; the year window picks the years the citations arrived in. 7 of 355 works carry a year-by-year record inside it.

What these filters select, over everything selected not what the graph divided by
Selected Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Everything selected 156 6/156 0.038461538461538464% 18/156 0.11538461538461539% 2/156 0.01282051282051282% 355 256/355 0.7211267605633803%
  • 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.
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.0204060801001200-1 Works 31312-10 Works 12012011-100 Works 8080100+ Works 25250-12-1011-100100+WorksCitations

The 256 works that carry a count, by how many citations they have; the last bucket is everything above a hundred. The median is 8. 99 works carry no count and are in no bucket.

What these filters select, over everything selected not what the graph divided by
Selected Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Everything selected 156 6/156 0.038461538461538464% 18/156 0.11538461538461539% 2/156 0.01282051282051282% 355 256/355 0.7211267605633803%
  • 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.

Citations by age of work

Citations by years since publication
Value Measure

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.

What these filters select, over everything selected not what the graph divided by
Selected Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Everything selected 156 6/156 0.038461538461538464% 18/156 0.11538461538461539% 2/156 0.01282051282051282% 355 256/355 0.7211267605633803%
  • 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.

Publication type mix

Citations by publication type
Value
Series: value.BooksBooks 20,04620,046ArticlesArticles 3,7843,784Edited volumesEdited volumes 20220205,00010,00015,00020,000Publication typeCitations

The 256 works that carry a count, by their publication type. A type none of whose works carries one is on no bar rather than on a zero. The Publication type filter decides which are here at all.

What these filters select, over everything selected not what the graph divided by
Selected Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Everything selected 156 6/156 0.038461538461538464% 18/156 0.11538461538461539% 2/156 0.01282051282051282% 355 256/355 0.7211267605633803%
  • 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.

Top venues

Where these works earned their citations
Value
Series: value.Critical InquiryCritical Inquiry 439439Human Rights QuarterlyHuman Rights Quarterly 293293PMLA/Publications of the Modern Lang...ciation of AmericaPMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 279279Modern fiction studiesModern fiction studies 204204New York University Press eBooksNew York University Press eBooks 187187South Atlantic QuarterlySouth Atlantic Quarterly 183183Johns Hopkins University Press eBooksJohns Hopkins University Press eBooks 140140Comparative Literature StudiesComparative Literature Studies 125125Medical Entomology and ZoologyMedical Entomology and Zoology 122122Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) 120120New FormationsNew Formations 113113ProfessionProfession 102102Critical Ethnic StudiesCritical Ethnic Studies 9595Cultural CritiqueCultural Critique 8484James Joyce quarterlyJames Joyce quarterly 69690100200300400VenueCitations

The 15 venues whose works earned the most citations, of 97 holding a selected work; a venue none of whose works carries a count is on no bar rather than on a zero. 154 works are in no journal record.

What these filters select, over everything selected not what the graph divided by
Selected Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Everything selected 156 6/156 0.038461538461538464% 18/156 0.11538461538461539% 2/156 0.01282051282051282% 355 256/355 0.7211267605633803%
  • 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.