TrackademiaDepartment chairs
How does my department compare with the same department elsewhere?
Compare people within their field and career stage.Academic comparisons,
in context.
Trackademia is a database of academics, and the comparisons built on it, for universities.
Understand a department alongside its peers. Compare academics within their own field and career stage. Follow each fact back to its source.
The product is live privately, behind sign-in.
Where you sit
Fictional department · Larkspur University
4th of 29 (top 14%)
One highlighted fictional academic
A different question
at every level.
Analytics gives academics, chairs, deans and institutional research staff a defined basis for comparison.
Deans and provosts
Which departments are strong within their fields, and how do we compare with peers?
The Dean view compares each selected department with the same discipline elsewhere, without adding departments together.Institutional research
What is counted, where did it come from, and what is missing?
Examine the methodIndividual academics
Where do I sit in my department, and in my field at my career stage?
Fixed comparisons, with one definition per figure.A defined starting point.
Data as of October 10, 2026
5universities
53departments
10fields
4,538academics
Current coverage
Stanford, Dartmouth, Chicago, Harvard and Princeton.
These are institutions represented in the database, not customers, partners or endorsements.
Within the database
About 1,730 tenured or tenure-line faculty with citation data. About 26,600 journals and other publication venues.
Fields: political science, economics, English, chemistry, biology, psychology, philosophy, computer science, sociology, history.
The other 9 Ivy Plus universities come next.
Evidence you can
trace.
Start with the department directory
AI research agents read official department directories and people’s public pages. Code checks their answers, and every fact keeps its source.
Keep the gaps visible
Missing information is shown as missing, never as zero. Citation figures need context and must never be the sole basis of a personnel decision.
Read about trust and securityYour institution’s CVs.
Your institution’s view.
My Institution extracts appointments, degrees, honors and publications from faculty CVs sent privately by your university. Each record keeps the CV passage it came from.
Explore My InstitutionPrivate records, kept separate
Each institution sees only its own data. The database itself enforces that separation.
In developmentLinking private CV records to the public data is in development.
Start with your institution’s questions.
Access is private. Every account is approved individually.