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 2,492 works
1 Surface Reading: An Introduction 2009 · Representations · Sharon Marcus 2,385
2 Introduction part I: Actually existing cosmopolitanism 1998 · CULTURAL POLITICS · Bruce Robbins 1,250
3 Trauma and experience: Introduction 1995 · Trauma: Explorations in memory · Cathy Caruth 906
4 Unclaimed Experience: Trauma and the Possibility of History 1991 · Yale French Studies · Cathy Caruth 875
5 Comparative cosmopolitanisms 1998 · CULTURAL POLITICS · Bruce Robbins 582
6 Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism 1993 · Culture · Bruce Robbins 454
7 Recapturing the past: Introduction 1995 · Trauma: Explorations in memory · Cathy Caruth 447
8 African and Caribbean Appropriations of The Tempest 1987 · Critical Inquiry · Rob Nixon 335
9 The obscenity of understanding: An evening with Claude Lanzmann 1991 · American Imago · Cathy Caruth 300
10 Sports hernias: a systematic literature review 2008 · British journal of sports medicine · Caleb Smith 245
11 Everywhere and Nowhere: The Sociology of Literature After ‘the Sociology of Literature.’ 2010 · New Literary History · James English 243
12 Weak Theory, Weak Modernism 2018 · Modernism/modernity · Paul Saint-Amour 236
13 Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality 2001 · South Atlantic Quarterly · Simon Gikandi 229
14 Queer Theory for Everyone 2005 · Signs · Sharon Marcus 227
15 An Interview with Robert Jay Lifton 1991 · American Imago · Cathy Caruth 226

31,840 citations over 1,456 of 2,492 works (58% carry a count). 118 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. 30 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% 2492 1456/2492 0.5842696629213483%
  • 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. 804 of 2,492 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% 2492 1456/2492 0.5842696629213483%
  • 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.01002003004005006000-1 Works 4104102-10 Works 52852811-100 Works 460460100+ Works 58580-12-1011-100100+WorksCitations

The 1,456 works that carry a count, by how many citations they have; the last bucket is everything above a hundred. The median is 5. 1,036 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% 2492 1456/2492 0.5842696629213483%
  • 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 265 115/265 0.4339622641509434% 43/265 0.16226415094339622% 100/265 0.37735849056603776% 2492 1456/2492 0.5842696629213483%
  • 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 31,84031,840010,00020,00030,000Publication typeCitations

The 1,456 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% 2492 1456/2492 0.5842696629213483%
  • 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.RepresentationsRepresentations 2,9602,960PMLA/Publications of the Modern Lang...ciation of AmericaPMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 1,3481,348Critical InquiryCritical Inquiry 1,1541,154Yale French StudiesYale French Studies 911911New Literary HistoryNew Literary History 768768American imagoAmerican imago 760760NOVEL A Forum on FictionNOVEL A Forum on Fiction 630630Social TextSocial Text 624624boundary 2boundary 2 622622Modernism/modernityModernism/modernity 583583differencesdifferences 576576South Atlantic QuarterlySouth Atlantic Quarterly 563563Modern fiction studiesModern fiction studies 431431ELHELH 423423Modern Language QuarterlyModern Language Quarterly 39839805001,0001,5002,0002,500VenueCitations

The 15 venues whose works earned the most citations, of 507 holding a selected work; a venue none of whose works carries a count is on no bar rather than on a zero. 755 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% 2492 1456/2492 0.5842696629213483%
  • 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.