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
Value Statistic Unit

Academics

Citations per year in post (from the first professorial appointment, else the PhD year) · the 20 highest of 309 academics
1 Brendan Nyhan Dartmouth Government · Distinguished · 15 years in post 1,845.4
2 Andrew M. Guess Princeton Politics · Associate · 9 years in post 1,456.8
3 Andrew Gelman Columbia Political Science · Distinguished · 36 years in post 1,215.6
4 Sean J. Westwood Dartmouth Government · Associate · 11 years in post 760.0
5 Dustin Tingley Harvard Government · Distinguished · 16 years in post 638.6
6 Matthew Levendusky Penn Political Science · Distinguished · 19 years in post 572.4
7 Jonathan Mummolo Princeton Politics · Associate · 9 years in post 570.6
8 Joshua Kalla Yale Political Science · Full · 7 years in post 511.0
9 Kosuke Imai Harvard Government · Full · 22 years in post 499.4
10 Rocío Titiunik Princeton Politics · Full · 16 years in post 421.2
11 Steven Levitsky Harvard Government · Distinguished · 26 years in post 386.3
12 Dillon Laaker Cornell Government · Assistant · 1 years in post 359.0
13 Sarah E. Kreps Cornell Government · Distinguished · 18 years in post 321.7
14 Robert A. Blair Brown Political Science · Associate · 11 years in post 296.4
15 Joshua David Kertzer Harvard Government · Distinguished · 12 years in post 295.9
16 Peter John Loewen Cornell Government · Full · 16 years in post 292.2
17 Shiro Kuriwaki Yale Political Science · Assistant · 4 years in post 285.5
18 Parrish Bergquist Penn Political Science · Assistant · 6 years in post 273.5
19 Donald P. Green Columbia Political Science · Distinguished · 37 years in post 268.7
20 Guy Grossman Penn Political Science · Distinguished · 14 years in post 268.1

327,476 citations over 3,854 of 5,393 works (71% carry a count). 273 of 309 academics have at least one counted work. A work with no citation count is unknown here, never a zero.

Publications by career year

Publications in each year of a career
Statistic

Pooled over the 268 of 309 academics whose CV states a PhD year, across 8 departments; career year 0 is the PhD year. A career year fewer than 5 of them have reached is a gap. A total counts only the academics who had reached that career year, so the tail is low because fewer of them are in it; the mean and the median divide by exactly those academics.

Citations by career year

Citations of the works published in each career year
Value Statistic

Pooled over the 268 of 309 academics whose CV states a PhD year, across 8 departments; career year 0 is the PhD year. A career year fewer than 5 of them have reached is a gap. The citations of the works published in that career year, not the citations received in it. A total counts only the academics who had reached that career year, so the tail is low because fewer of them are in it; the mean and the median divide by exactly those academics.

Publications per year

Works published in each year
Statistic Unit Each point

One line, publications per academic over the 309 academics the filters select, by the year each work was published; an undated work is in no year. A work two of them share counts for each of them.

Citations per year

Citations received in each year
Statistic Unit Each point

One line, citations per academic over the 309 academics the filters select. Citations received in each year, from the academics’ verified Scholar profiles, which count every citation to everything they wrote: no publication filter reaches this line, and no journal weight either, which is why it offers no Value.

h-index

Academics at each h-index
Series: Academics.0204060801001–4 Academics 22225–9 Academics 373710–19 Academics 939320–39 Academics 848440+ Academics 47471–45–910–1920–3940+Academicsh-index

The verified Scholar profile’s h-index where there is one, else computed from the OpenAlex citations of the academic’s CV works (definitions section 6): Scholar for 232 academics, OpenAlex citations of CV works for 51, 26 with no h-index. Never OpenAlex’s author-level figure, and no filter here moves it.

Makeup by rank

Academics at each current rank
Series: value.DistinguishedDistinguished 100100FullFull 5757AssociateAssociate 5151AssistantAssistant 6161ResearchResearch 11PostdocPostdoc 22UnknownUnknown 3737020406080100RankAcademics

The current rank of every academic the filters keep (definitions section 7). A rank is current as of the CV, so no year window or kind moves it.

Top collaborators

Works two of the selected academics both hold
Series: value.Alan S. Gerber · Gregory Alain HuberAlan S. Gerber · Gregory Alain Huber 2727Douglas L. Kriner · Sarah E. KrepsDouglas L. Kriner · Sarah E. Kreps 1818Andrew M. Guess · Brendan NyhanAndrew M. Guess · Brendan Nyhan 1717Daniel Ziblatt · Steven LevitskyDaniel Ziblatt · Steven Levitsky 99Brendan Nyhan · John Michael CareyBrendan Nyhan · John Michael Carey 88Daryl G. Press · JENNIFER M. LINDDaryl G. Press · JENNIFER M. LIND 88Adam Michael Auerbach · TARIQ THACHILAdam Michael Auerbach · TARIQ THACHIL 66Alan S. Gerber · Eric M. PatashnikAlan S. Gerber · Eric M. Patashnik 55Brendan Nyhan · Peter John LoewenBrendan Nyhan · Peter John Loewen 55Donghyun Danny Choi · Nicholas SambanisDonghyun Danny Choi · Nicholas Sambanis 55Dustin Tingley · Helen V. MilnerDustin Tingley · Helen V. Milner 55Jason Barabas · Jennifer JeritJason Barabas · Jennifer Jerit 550510152025PairShared works

The pairs of the 309 selected academics who share the most of these works. 313 of the 5,393 selected works are held by two of them, making 183 pairs - a work three of them share is three pairs, so the two figures are different quantities and neither is a sum of the other. Only collaborations inside this selection are here: a work written with somebody outside it is counted everywhere else on this page and cannot be paired.

First Second

James Bernard Murphy alone is not a pair: pick a second academic to count against.