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.
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Matthew Levendusky

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Academic

RankDistinguished
As of2026 · CV
DepartmentPenn Political Science
UniversityPenn
FieldPolitical Science
Scholarprofile

Totals

Publications52
Citations20,138
h-index39 · Scholar
Citations per year in post1,059.9
Years in post19 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count46 of 52
Share88%

Positions

Affiliated Faculty Member, University of Penn…2026–
Professor, University of Pennsylvania2025–
Director, Institutions of Democracy Division,…2025–
Visiting Researcher, Department of Political…2022–2022
Visiting Researcher, Department of Political…2021–2022
Stephen and Mary Baran Chair in the Instituti…2019–
Analyst, NBC News Decision Desk2019–2024
Professor, University of Pennsylvania2018–
and 8 more

Top venues 21 venues

The 8 holding the most of these works; 13 more hold at least one.

Public Opinion Quarterly9
The Journal of Politics7
American Journal of Political Science3
Journal of Experimental Political Science3
Political Communication3
Political Behavior2
American Behavioral Scientist1
American Politics Research1

Publications per year

Works this academic published in each year, by the year each work appeared; an undated work is in no year, and a work two colleagues wrote counts for each of them. The kind, works and year filters decide which works are here at all.

Citations per year

Citations received in each year, from this academic’s verified Scholar profile, which counts every citation to everything they ever wrote: no publication filter reaches this line - not the kinds, not the works switch, not the year window on publication - and no journal weight either. It is a profile total, so it does not match the works listed below.

Publications 52 works

Every work these filters select, most cited first and the works with no count at the end: a work nobody has a figure for is unknown, never a zero to be ranked among the works that have one, and it prints an em dash. Each figure is that work’s own citations - Scholar’s count where there is one, else OpenAlex’s - and is not weighted.

YearTitleVenueKindCitations
2019The Origins and Consequences of Affective Polarization in the United StatesAnnual Review of Political Sciencearticle5,063
2009The Partisan Sort: How Liberals Became Democrats and Conservatives Became Republicans—book2,233
2011Comparing the Accuracy of RDD Telephone Surveys and Internet Surveys Conducted with Probability and Non-Probability Samples.Public Opinion Quarterlyarticle1,052
2013Why Do Partisan Media Polarize Viewers?American Journal of Political Sciencearticle1,032
2019What Do We Measure When We Measure Affective Polarization?Public Opinion Quarterlyarticle993
2018Americans, Not Partisans: Can Priming American National Identity Reduce Affective Polarization?The Journal of Politicsarticle720
2013How Partisan Media Polarize America—book716
2016American Government: Institutions and Policies—book712
2016Does Media Coverage of Partisan Polarization Affect Political Attitudes?Political Communicationarticle678
2010Clearer Cues, More Consistent Voters: A Benefit of Elite Polarization.Political Behaviorarticle616
2021Affective Polarization, Local Contexts, and Public Opinion in America.Nature Human Behaviourarticle604
2018The Economic Consequences of Partisanship in a Polarized Era.American Journal of Political Sciencearticle603
2021How Affective Polarization Undermines Support for Democratic Norms.Public Opinion Quarterlyarticle600
2013Partisan Media Exposure and Attitudes Toward the Opposition,Political Communicationarticle413
2016(Mis)Perceptions of Partisan Polarization in the American Public,Public Opinion Quarterlyarticle391
2012When Backing Down is the Right Decision: Partisanship, New Information, and Audience CostsThe Journal of Politicsarticle386
2018No Need to Watch: How the Effects of Partisan Media Can Spread via Inter-Personal Discussions.American Journal of Political Sciencearticle383
2021How Affective Polarization Shapes Americans’ Political Beliefs: A Study of Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of Experimental Political Sciencearticle291
2024Megastudy Testing 25 Treatments to Reduce Anti-Democratic Attitudes and Partisan Animosity,Sciencearticle234
2021We Need to Talk: How Cross-Party Dialogue Reduces Affective PolarizationCambridge University Press eBooksbook223
2019How Incivility on Partisan Media (De-)Polarizes the Electorate.The Journal of Politicsarticle214
2022(Mis-)Estimating Affective Polarization.The Journal of Politicsarticle209
2009The Microfoundations of Polarization.Political Analysisarticle199
2008Measuring District Level Partisanship with Implications for the Analysis of U.S. Elections.The Journal of Politicsarticle195
2011Drafting Support for War: Conscription and Mass Support for WarfareThe Journal of Politicsarticle163
2023Our Common Bonds: Using What Americans Share to Overcome the Partisan Divide—book145
2011Red States vs. Blue States: Going Beyond the Mean.Public Opinion Quarterlyarticle144
2022The Majoritarian Threat to Liberal DemocracyJournal of Experimental Political Sciencearticle130
2018When Efforts to Depolarize the Electorate Fail.Public Opinion Quarterlyarticle106
2011Rethinking the Role of Political Information.Public Opinion Quarterlyarticle85
2016How Group Discussions Create Strong Attitudes and Strong Partisans.Research & Politicsarticle79
2024Partisan Hostility and American Democracy: Explaining Political Divisions and When They Matter—book78
2022How Does Local TV News Change Viewers’ Attitudes? The Case of Sinclair Broadcasting.Political Communicationarticle78
2010Measuring Aggregate-Level Ideological Heterogeneity.Legislative Studies Quarterlyarticle57
2014Relying on the Ground Game: The Placement and Effect of Campaign Field Offices.American Politics Researcharticle56
2016What Do Citizens Want from their Member of Congress?Political Research Quarterlyarticle55
2024Has the Supreme Court Become Just Another Political Branch? Public Perceptions of Court Approval and Legitimacy in a Post-Dobbs WorldScience Advancesarticle53
2022Self-Affirmation and Identity-Driven Political Behavior: An Oversold Solution?Journal of Experimental Political Sciencearticle46
2023Democracy Amid Crises: Polarization, Pandemic, Protests and Persuasion—book29
2025Unraveling a ‘Cancel Culture’ Dynamic: When, Why, and Which Americans Sanction Offensive SpeechThe Journal of Politicsarticle24
2024The Long Shadow of the Big Lie: How Beliefs about the Legitimacy of the 2020 Election Spill Over onto Future ElectionsPublic Opinion Quarterlyarticle12
2017Morris Fiorina’s Foundational Contributions to the Study of Partisanship and Mass Polarization.The Forumarticle12
2024Sanctioning Political Speech on Social Media Is Driven by Partisan Norms and Identity Signaling.PNAS Nexusarticle10
2021Exploring the role of media use within an integrated behavioral model (IBM) approach to vote likelihood.American Behavioral Scientistarticle10
2023Can Information Persuade Rather Than Polarize? A Review of Alex Coppock's Persuasion in ParallelPolitical Science Quarterlyarticle5
2026Perceptions of Discrimination against White People in Post-Floyd America: Media Coverage and Public Opinion, 2020-2024,Political Behaviorarticle1
2026Affective Polarization: From Concepts to Measures.Political Psychologyarticle—
2026To Know Courts Is to Love Them? New research shows jury service and civic education boost public understanding—and opinion—of courts.—article—
2024The Withering of Public Confidence in the Courts—article—
2024What Do We Measure When We Measure Affective Polarization?(vol 83, pg 114, 2019)Public Opinion Quarterlyarticle—
2021We Need to Talk: What Can We Do about Affective Polarization?; 2. Design of the Cross-Party Discussion Experiment; 3. Does Cross-Party Discussion Reduce Animus…—book—
2017American Government: Institutions and Policies, Brief Version—book—