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 Andrew Gelman Columbia Political Science · Distinguished · 36 years in post 6,483.1
2 Gary King Harvard Government · Distinguished · 42 years in post 2,916.8
3 Kosuke Imai Harvard Government · Full · 22 years in post 2,671.0
4 Brendan Nyhan Dartmouth Government · Distinguished · 15 years in post 2,557.9
5 Dustin Tingley Harvard Government · Distinguished · 16 years in post 2,411.8
6 Donald P. Green Columbia Political Science · Distinguished · 37 years in post 1,655.4
7 Andrew M. Guess Princeton Politics · Associate · 9 years in post 1,482.9
8 Steven Levitsky Harvard Government · Distinguished · 26 years in post 1,470.0
9 Peter A. Hall Harvard Government · Distinguished · 44 years in post 1,338.1
10 Sean J. Westwood Dartmouth Government · Associate · 11 years in post 1,304.3
11 Andreas Wimmer Columbia Political Science · Distinguished · 27 years in post 1,129.9
12 Rocío Titiunik Princeton Politics · Full · 16 years in post 1,110.7
13 Matthew Levendusky Penn Political Science · Distinguished · 19 years in post 1,059.9
14 Amy Gutmann Penn Political Science · Distinguished · 50 years in post 1,043.3
15 Daniel J. Hopkins Penn Political Science · Distinguished · 17 years in post 990.5
16 Alan S. Gerber Yale Political Science · Distinguished · 32 years since the PhD 895.0
17 Beth Simmons Penn Political Science · Distinguished · 35 years in post 844.7
18 Nicholas Sambanis Yale Political Science · Distinguished · 25 years in post 821.0
19 Gregory Alain Huber Yale Political Science · Distinguished · 25 years in post 787.0
20 Joshua Kalla Yale Political Science · Full · 7 years in post 750.3

1,789,453 citations over 10,091 of 14,158 works (71% carry a count). 283 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 for each academic the view is about, so the statistic names each line without moving it: one academic is a population of one, 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 for each academic the view is about, so the statistic names each line without moving it: one academic is a population of one. 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.0110–19 Academics 1110–19Academicsh-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 1 academic. Never OpenAlex’s author-level figure, and no filter here moves it.

Makeup by rank

Academics at each current rank
Series: value.FullFull 1101RankAcademics

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 5050Alan S. Gerber · Donald P. GreenAlan S. Gerber · Donald P. Green 4949Stephen G. Brooks · William C. WohlforthStephen G. Brooks · William C. Wohlforth 2727James M. Snyder, Jr. · Stephen Daniel Ansolabehe…James M. Snyder, Jr. · Stephen Daniel Ansolabehe… 2525Douglas L. Kriner · Sarah E. KrepsDouglas L. Kriner · Sarah E. Kreps 1818Andrew M. Guess · Brendan NyhanAndrew M. Guess · Brendan Nyhan 1717Jason Barabas · Jennifer JeritJason Barabas · Jennifer Jerit 1616Edward D. Mansfield · Helen V. MilnerEdward D. Mansfield · Helen V. Milner 1515Alan S. Gerber · Eric M. PatashnikAlan S. Gerber · Eric M. Patashnik 1414Gary King · Kosuke ImaiGary King · Kosuke Imai 1414Dustin Tingley · Helen V. MilnerDustin Tingley · Helen V. Milner 1313James M. Snyder, Jr. · Shigeo HiranoJames M. Snyder, Jr. · Shigeo Hirano 131301020304050PairShared works

The pairs of the 309 selected academics who share the most of these works. 719 of the 14,158 selected works are held by two of them, making 289 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.