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 3,901 works
1 Advanced Capabilities for Materials Modeling with Quantum ESPRESSO 2017 · Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter · Robert A. DiStasio Jr. 11,866
2 Search-and-Replace Genome Editing Without Double-Strand Breaks or Donor DNA 2019 · Nature · David R. Liu 6,222
3 Programmable Base Editing of A•T to G•C in Genomic DNA Without DNA Cleavage 2017 · Nature · David R. Liu 5,394
4 Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cas Nucleases, Base Editors, Transposases, and Prime Editors 2020 · Nature Biotechnology · David R. Liu 2,769
5 Beyond fossil-fuel-driven nitrogen transformations 2018 · Science · Kyle M. Lancaster, Patrick Holland 2,769
6 Base Editing: Precision Chemistry on the Genome and Transcriptome of Living Cells 2018 · Nature Reviews Genetics · David R. Liu 2,184
7 LigParGen web server: An automatic OPLS-AA parameter generator for organic molecules. 2017 · Nucleic Acids Research · William Jorgensen 2,056
8 Evolved Cas9 Variants with Broad PAM Compatibility and High DNA Specificity 2018 · Nature · David R. Liu 2,051
9 CRISPResso2 provides accurate and rapid genome editing sequence analysis 2019 · Nature biotechnology · David R. Liu 1,940
10 Two-dimensional itinerant ferromagnetism in atomically thin Fe3GeTe2 2018 · Nature materials · Xiaoyang Zhu 1,889
11 AACR Project GENIE: powering precision medicine through an international consortium 2017 · Cancer discovery · David R. Liu 1,868
12 Software for the frontiers of quantum chemistry: An overview of developments in the Q-Chem 5 package 2021 · The Journal of Chemical Physics · Diptarka Hait, Joseph Subotnik, Robert A. DiStasio Jr. and 1 more 1,577
13 Molecular, Spatial and Functional Single- Cell Profiling of the Hypothalamic Preoptic Region 2018 · Science · Xiaowei Zhuang 1,543
14 CRISPR-Based Technologies for the Manipulation of Eukaryotic Genomes 2017 · Cell · David R. Liu 1,497
15 A high-resolution transcriptomic and spatial atlas of cell types in the whole mouse brain 2023 · Nature · Xiaowei Zhuang 1,398

269,032 citations over 2,946 of 3,901 works (76% carry a count). 71 of 87 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. 25 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 87 87/87 1.0% 46/87 0.5287356321839081% 87/87 1.0% 3901 2946/3901 0.755190976672648%
  • 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. 6,830 of 10,875 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 87 87/87 1.0% 46/87 0.5287356321839081% 87/87 1.0% 3901 2946/3901 0.755190976672648%
  • 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.05001,0001,5002,0000-1 Works 1421422-10 Works 50650611-100 Works 1,7471,747100+ Works 5515510-12-1011-100100+WorksCitations

The 2,946 works that carry a count, by how many citations they have; the last bucket is everything above a hundred. The median is 31. 955 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 87 87/87 1.0% 46/87 0.5287356321839081% 87/87 1.0% 3901 2946/3901 0.755190976672648%
  • 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: 69 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 87 87/87 1.0% 46/87 0.5287356321839081% 87/87 1.0% 3901 2946/3901 0.755190976672648%
  • 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.ArticlesArticles 269,024269,024Edited volumesEdited volumes 55BooksBooks 33050,000100,000150,000200,000250,000Publication typeCitations

The 2,946 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 87 87/87 1.0% 46/87 0.5287356321839081% 87/87 1.0% 3901 2946/3901 0.755190976672648%
  • 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.Journal of the American Chemical SocietyJournal of the American Chemical Society 29,85329,853NatureNature 29,01529,015ScienceScience 16,64016,640Nature BiotechnologyNature Biotechnology 13,27813,278Journal of Physics Condensed MatterJournal of Physics Condensed Matter 12,49912,499CellCell 10,14910,149Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 9,4779,477Nature CommunicationsNature Communications 6,2946,294Chemical ReviewsChemical Reviews 5,7185,718Nature MaterialsNature Materials 5,7125,712The Journal of Chemical PhysicsThe Journal of Chemical Physics 5,5925,592Angewandte Chemie International EditionAngewandte Chemie International Edition 5,5915,591Science AdvancesScience Advances 4,7484,748Nano LettersNano Letters 4,3464,346Chemical ScienceChemical Science 3,9533,95305,00010,00015,00020,00025,000VenueCitations

The 15 venues whose works earned the most citations, of 444 holding a selected work; a venue none of whose works carries a count is on no bar rather than on a zero. 205 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 87 87/87 1.0% 46/87 0.5287356321839081% 87/87 1.0% 3901 2946/3901 0.755190976672648%
  • 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.