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 118 works
1 Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African culture and the world beyond 2022 · Taylor & Francis · Rob Nixon 503
2 Colonial phantoms: Belonging and refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th century to the present 2018 · NYU Press · Dixa Ramirez 187
3 Hijacking Human Rights: Neoliberalism, the New Historiography, and the End of the Third World’(2018) undated · Human Rights Quarterly · Joseph R. Slaughter 178
4 From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry 2021 · Princeton University Press · Mary Loeffelholz 110
5 The self-help compulsion: searching for advice in modern literature 2020 · Columbia University Press · Beth Blum 107
6 Breeding: A partial history of the eighteenth century 2023 · Columbia University Press · Jenny Davidson 96
7 Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature 2019 · Columbia University Press · Jean-Christophe Cloutier 78
8 Amiable with Big Teeth 2017 · Penguin Publishing Group · Jean-Christophe Cloutier 71
9 Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte 2019 · U of Minnesota Press · Christopher Pexa 66
10 The less selfish gene: Forest altruism, neoliberalism, and the tree of life 2021 · Environmental Humanities · Rob Nixon 48
11 The Global South Atlantic 2017 · Fordham Univ Press · Joseph R. Slaughter 46
12 Reading Jane Austen 2017 · Cambridge University Press · Jenny Davidson 35
13 Channeling Knowledges: Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds 2023 · University of Texas Press · Rebeca Hey-Colón 29
14 Locations of Comparison 2018 · Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry · Joseph R. Slaughter 23
15 The self-help hermeneutic: Its global history and literary future 2018 · PMLA · Beth Blum 23

1,915 citations over 69 of 118 works (58% carry a count). 17 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% 118 69/118 0.5847457627118644%
  • 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% 118 69/118 0.5847457627118644%
  • 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.0102030400-1 Works 13132-10 Works 323211-100 Works 1919100+ Works 550-12-1011-100100+WorksCitations

The 69 works that carry a count, by how many citations they have; the last bucket is everything above a hundred. The median is 7. 49 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% 118 69/118 0.5847457627118644%
  • 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: 3 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% 118 69/118 0.5847457627118644%
  • 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 1,4141,414ArticlesArticles 50150105001,000Publication typeCitations

The 69 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% 118 69/118 0.5847457627118644%
  • 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.New York University Press eBooksNew York University Press eBooks 187187Human Rights QuarterlyHuman Rights Quarterly 178178Medical Entomology and ZoologyMedical Entomology and Zoology 6666The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary InquiryThe Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 2424PMLA/Publications of the Modern Lang...ciation of AmericaPMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 2323AntipodeAntipode 2121Stanford Law ReviewStanford Law Review 1515History of the PresentHistory of the Present 1313Modernism/modernityModernism/modernity 1313boundary 2boundary 2 99Studies in the novelStudies in the novel 88SoulsSouls 77Studies in American Indian LiteraturesStudies in American Indian Literatures 77˜The œAtlantic˜The œAtlantic 77American Literary HistoryAmerican Literary History 55050100150VenueCitations

The 15 venues whose works earned the most citations, of 41 holding a selected work; a venue none of whose works carries a count is on no bar rather than on a zero. 59 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% 118 69/118 0.5847457627118644%
  • 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.