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 931 works
1 Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African culture and the world beyond 2022 · Taylor & Francis · Rob Nixon 503
2 Cultures of United States Imperialism undated · New Americanists Series at Duke University Press · Donald E. Pease 427
3 Naturalizing Africa 2017 · Cambridge University Press eBooks · Cajetan Iheka 354
4 The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature 2020 · Fordham University Press · Jennifer Wenzel 242
5 Weak Theory, Weak Modernism 2018 · Modernism/modernity · Paul Saint-Amour 236
6 Critical Digital Humanities: The Search for a Methodology 2019 · University of Illinois Press · James E. Dobson 220
7 On Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Study 2019 · University of Chicago Press · Amanda Anderson 215
8 The Drama of Celebrity 2019 · Princeton: Princeton University Press · Sharon Marcus 210
9 Afterword: What Do We Talk about when We Talk about Extractivism? 2021 · Textual Practice · Jennifer Wenzel 187
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 African ecomedia: Network forms, planetary politics 2021 · Duke UP · Cajetan Iheka 172
13 The Beneficiary 2017 · Durham: Duke University Press · Bruce Robbins 151
14 Memory studies and the Anthropocene: A roundtable 2017 · Memory Studies · Jennifer Wenzel 145
15 Cosmopolitanisms 2017 · NYU Press · Bruce Robbins 135

8,552 citations over 503 of 931 works (54% carry a count). 95 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
Measure X axis 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.

What these filters select, over everything selected not what the graph divided by
Selected Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Everything selected 265 115/265 0.4339622641509434% 43/265 0.16226415094339622% 100/265 0.37735849056603776% 931 503/931 0.5402792696025779%
  • 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. 903 of 3,204 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 265 115/265 0.4339622641509434% 43/265 0.16226415094339622% 100/265 0.37735849056603776% 931 503/931 0.5402792696025779%
  • 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.0501001502002500-1 Works 2042042-10 Works 16616611-100 Works 114114100+ Works 19190-12-1011-100100+WorksCitations

The 503 works that carry a count, by how many citations they have; the last bucket is everything above a hundred. The median is 3. 428 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 265 115/265 0.4339622641509434% 43/265 0.16226415094339622% 100/265 0.37735849056603776% 931 503/931 0.5402792696025779%
  • 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: 10 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 265 115/265 0.4339622641509434% 43/265 0.16226415094339622% 100/265 0.37735849056603776% 931 503/931 0.5402792696025779%
  • 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 4,4194,419ArticlesArticles 3,3013,301Edited volumesEdited volumes 83283201,0002,0003,0004,000Publication typeCitations

The 503 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 265 115/265 0.4339622641509434% 43/265 0.16226415094339622% 100/265 0.37735849056603776% 931 503/931 0.5402792696025779%
  • 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.Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) 450450Journal of American HistoryJournal of American History 427427New York University Press eBooksNew York University Press eBooks 409409Cambridge University Press eBooksCambridge University Press eBooks 363363Modernism/modernityModernism/modernity 249249Fordham Research Commons (Fordham University)Fordham Research Commons (Fordham University) 242242Princeton University Press eBooksPrinceton University Press eBooks 228228Textual PracticeTextual Practice 188188Human Rights QuarterlyHuman Rights Quarterly 178178Memory StudiesMemory Studies 165165PMLA/Publications of the Modern Lang...ciation of AmericaPMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 143143Critical InquiryCritical Inquiry 139139Media Culture & SocietyMedia Culture & Society 110110Medical Entomology and ZoologyMedical Entomology and Zoology 100100International Journal of Digital HumanitiesInternational Journal of Digital Humanities 91910100200300400VenueCitations

The 15 venues whose works earned the most citations, of 256 holding a selected work; a venue none of whose works carries a count is on no bar rather than on a zero. 366 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 265 115/265 0.4339622641509434% 43/265 0.16226415094339622% 100/265 0.37735849056603776% 931 503/931 0.5402792696025779%
  • 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.