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
Weighting Equation Top weight Minimum works

weight = log(1 + A) + log(1 + B), ranked among the journals with at least 20 works, then scaled so the lowest weighs 1 and the highest 3. A journal with fewer works weighs 1 and is unranked.

A median citations of the academics who published in the journal. An academic’s citations here are the citations of the works this site counts for them, never a Google Scholar profile total: profile totals left the site on 2026-09-16.
B mean citations of a work in the journal. Over the works that carry a count; a work with no count is unknown, never a zero.
N works in the journal. Every counted work of this field’s academics in it, all years.
P academics who published in the journal. The academics of this field with at least one work in it.

The tier is the weight percentile: A* the top 5% (5) · A the next 15% (16) · B the next 30% (32) · the rest unranked (813). The ranking is over every journal this field’s academics publish in, all years and every visible department, whatever the filters select; 759 of 866 journals have fewer than 20 works, so they are unranked and weigh 1. The weighting is off, so every journal weighs 1; the ranking still holds. A weight multiplies citations. It never touches a publication count or an h-index. These are the institution’s weights. Saving keeps a version of your own.

Journal ABNP Weight Tier Override
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 27,335.5 93%3,195.9 100%20 1%10 15% 1× A*
Nature Materials 24,238.0 90%689.7 95%43 42%21 56% 1× A*
Nature Methods 23,756.0 88%705.1 96%41 40%14 33% 1× A*
Energy & Environmental Science 30,173.0 96%285.9 87%28 23%13 29% 1× A*
Cell Metabolism 23,756.0 88%463.2 92%26 17%8 11% 1× A*
Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics 62,130.0 100%205.2 78%23 10%3 3% 1× A
Nature Nanotechnology 20,757.0 84%470.0 92%35 30%19 51% 1× A
Nature Biotechnology 15,475.0 73%742.9 98%48 46%11 19% 1× A
Journal of Computational Chemistry 27,668.0 94%193.2 76%25 15%6 6% 1× A
Chemical Society Reviews 18,736.0 80%329.7 90%36 32%26 68% 1× A
Nature Physics 16,169.0 76%386.3 91%27 20%12 24% 1× A
Advanced Materials 20,757.0 84%206.1 80%58 54%21 56% 1× A
Science 14,906.0 68%707.1 97%278 94%81 98% 1× A
Physical Review B 21,871.0 86%190.6 75%141 79%23 62% 1× A
Chemical Reviews 14,244.0 62%897.6 99%74 63%49 91% 1× A
Nano Research 19,572.0 82%204.1 77%20 1%8 11% 1× A
Accounts of Chemical Research 15,462.5 72%292.6 88%126 77%64 93% 1× A
Physical review. B, Condensed matter 62,130.0 100%134.3 61%21 5%7 8% 1× A
Applied Physics Letters 26,402.0 92%147.1 66%42 41%17 43% 1× A
Physical Review Letters 14,859.5 66%312.3 89%261 92%48 88% 1× A
Cell 14,099.5 60%626.4 94%66 59%22 59% 1× A
Nano Letters 14,864.0 67%223.1 82%196 86%46 86% 1× B
Journal of Applied Physics 26,216.0 92%112.5 56%67 61%11 19% 1× B
Nature 12,808.0 54%620.5 93%226 89%71 95% 1× B
Nature Chemical Biology 13,139.5 58%244.8 85%101 73%24 66% 1× B
ChemInform 22,326.5 87%108.7 55%51 50%18 47% 1× B
Surface Science 52,972.0 98%94.3 43%21 5%5 4% 1× B
ACS Nano 16,169.0 76%133.9 60%89 67%44 84% 1× B
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 16,443.0 78%118.4 58%49 47%28 70% 1× B
Physical Review X 15,475.0 73%121.7 58%21 5%11 19% 1× B
1–30 of 866 journals. Only the journals on this page are saved, so save before turning it. Next