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
309 academics under these filters. Open a row to see where each number came from.
Name Department Rank Publications Citations h-index
Andrew Gelman Columbia Political Science Distinguished 533 233,390 141
Gary King Harvard Government Distinguished 356 122,507 118
Donald P. Green Columbia Political Science Distinguished 240 61,250 100
Peter A. Hall Harvard Government Distinguished 154 58,875 69
Kosuke Imai Harvard Government Full 166 58,761 75
Amy Gutmann Penn Political Science Distinguished 111 52,167 58
Dustin Tingley Harvard Government Distinguished 101 38,589 62
Brendan Nyhan Dartmouth Government Distinguished 100 38,368 61
Steven Levitsky Harvard Government Distinguished 107 38,219 69
Andreas Wimmer Columbia Political Science Distinguished 114 30,506 49
Beth Simmons Penn Political Science Distinguished 97 29,566 59
Alan S. Gerber Yale Political Science Distinguished 144 28,641 70
James M. Snyder, Jr. Harvard Government Distinguished 142 27,734 80
Helen V. Milner Princeton Politics Distinguished 133 26,953 61
Diana C. Mutz Penn Political Science Distinguished 86 26,320 55
Edward D. Mansfield Penn Political Science Distinguished 123 22,174 63
Nicholas Sambanis Yale Political Science Distinguished 71 20,524 48
Carles Boix Princeton Politics Distinguished 60 20,302 39
Matthew Levendusky Penn Political Science Distinguished 52 20,138 39
Paul E. Peterson Harvard Government Distinguished 419 19,853 71
Gregory Alain Huber Yale Political Science Distinguished 120 19,676 51
John Michael Carey Dartmouth Government Distinguished 102 18,632 43
Rocío Titiunik Princeton Politics Full 43 17,771 35
Torben Iversen Harvard Government Distinguished 67 17,530 52
Jacob S. Hacker Yale Political Science Distinguished 201 17,525 43
Andrew Moravcsik Princeton Politics Full 78 17,149 37
Daniel J. Hopkins Penn Political Science Distinguished 71 16,838 46
Alastair Iain Johnston Harvard Government Research 55 15,764 42
Theda Skocpol Harvard Government Distinguished 151 15,616 42
Ian Shapiro Yale Political Science Distinguished 168 15,405 50
William C. Wohlforth Dartmouth Government Distinguished 102 15,015 48
James Raymond Vreeland Princeton Politics Full 70 14,649 42
Stephen Daniel Ansolabehere Harvard Government Distinguished 84 14,514 42
Sean J. Westwood Dartmouth Government Associate 47 14,347 28
Nolan McCarty Princeton Politics Distinguished 73 14,130 44
Markus Prior Princeton Politics Full 27 13,818 26
Daniel Paul Carpenter Harvard Government Distinguished 142 13,814 44
Mark McGann Blyth Brown Political Science Distinguished 121 13,394 45
Andrew M. Guess Princeton Politics Associate 44 13,346 38
Nadia Urbinati Columbia Political Science Distinguished 245 12,949 44
Jennifer Gandhi Yale Political Science Full 24 12,769 23
John D. Huber Columbia Political Science Full 38 11,846 33
Jack L. Snyder Columbia Political Science Distinguished 79 11,833 33
G. John Ikenberry Princeton Politics Distinguished 125 11,741 42
Atul Kohli Princeton Politics Distinguished 69 11,484 40
Milan Svolik Yale Political Science Distinguished 22 11,476 20
Brendan O'Leary Penn Political Science Distinguished 309 11,298 54
Leonard Wantchekon Princeton Politics Full 61 11,038 34
Elizabeth J. Perry Harvard Government Distinguished 139 11,008 54
Andrew J. Nathan Columbia Political Science Distinguished 745 10,887 43
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