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.

Value Measure

Publications

Citations · the 15 highest of 434 works
2 Cultures of United States Imperialism undated · New Americanists Series at Duke University Press · Donald E. Pease 427
4 Breeding: A partial history of the eighteenth century 2023 · Columbia University Press · Jenny Davidson 96
5 On Reading and Interpreting Black Box Deep Neural Networks 2023 · International Journal of Digital Humanities · James E. Dobson 91
6 The Birth of Computer Vision 2023 · University of Minnesota Press · James E. Dobson 76
7 Literature for a changing planet 2022 · Princeton University Press · Martin Puchner 60
8 The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism 2022 · The University of Chicago Press · S. Pearl Brilmyer 54
10 Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies 2023 · University of Chicago Press · Jonathan Kramnick 44
11 Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction 2022 · Stanford: Stanford University Press · Bruce Robbins 39
12 Vector Hermeneutics: On the Interpretation of Vector Space Models of Text 2022 · Digital Scholarship in the Humanities · James E. Dobson 33
13 Channeling Knowledges: Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds 2023 · University of Texas Press · Rebeca Hey-Colón 29
14 The Moral and Political Challenges of Hartmut Rosa’s Theory of Resonance 2023 · The Journal of Chinese Sociology · Amanda Anderson 27
15 Computational Hermeneutics: Evaluating Generative AI as a Cultural Technology 2026 · Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence · James E. Dobson 26

2,201 citations over 187 of 434 works (43% carry a count). 63 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% 434 187/434 0.4308755760368664%
  • 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. 674 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% 434 187/434 0.4308755760368664%
  • 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 1071072-10 Works 535311-100 Works 2424100+ Works 330-12-1011-100100+WorksCitations

The 187 works that carry a count, by how many citations they have; the last bucket is everything above a hundred. The median is 1. 247 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% 434 187/434 0.4308755760368664%
  • 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% 434 187/434 0.4308755760368664%
  • 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 1,0581,058ArticlesArticles 690690Edited volumesEdited volumes 45345302004006008001,000Publication typeCitations

The 187 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% 434 187/434 0.4308755760368664%
  • 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 American HistoryJournal of American History 427427Human Rights QuarterlyHuman Rights Quarterly 178178International Journal of Digital HumanitiesInternational Journal of Digital Humanities 9191University of Minnesota Press eBooksUniversity of Minnesota Press eBooks 7676Oxford University Press eBooksOxford University Press eBooks 4646Stanford University Press eBooksStanford University Press eBooks 4646Social TextSocial Text 3737Digital Scholarship in the HumanitiesDigital Scholarship in the Humanities 3333Medical Entomology and ZoologyMedical Entomology and Zoology 3333The Journal of Chinese SociologyThe Journal of Chinese Sociology 2727Frontiers in Artificial IntelligenceFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence 2626The American Journal of the Medical SciencesThe American Journal of the Medical Sciences 2626Critical InquiryCritical Inquiry 1919Radical History ReviewRadical History Review 1919RepresentationsRepresentations 19190100200300400VenueCitations

The 15 venues whose works earned the most citations, of 134 holding a selected work; a venue none of whose works carries a count is on no bar rather than on a zero. 186 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% 434 187/434 0.4308755760368664%
  • 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.