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 1,157.1
4 Sean J. Westwood Dartmouth Government · Associate · 11 years in post 751.9
5 Dustin Tingley Harvard Government · Distinguished · 16 years in post 629.4
6 Jonathan Mummolo Princeton Politics · Associate · 9 years in post 570.6
7 Matthew Levendusky Penn Political Science · Distinguished · 19 years in post 547.4
8 Joshua Kalla Yale Political Science · Full · 7 years in post 511.0
9 Kosuke Imai Harvard Government · Full · 22 years in post 490.5
10 Dillon Laaker Cornell Government · Assistant · 1 years in post 359.0
11 Sarah E. Kreps Cornell Government · Distinguished · 18 years in post 310.2
12 Rocío Titiunik Princeton Politics · Full · 16 years in post 305.4
13 Joshua David Kertzer Harvard Government · Distinguished · 12 years in post 290.6
14 Peter John Loewen Cornell Government · Full · 16 years in post 289.9
15 Robert A. Blair Brown Political Science · Associate · 11 years in post 289.6
16 Shiro Kuriwaki Yale Political Science · Assistant · 4 years in post 285.5
17 Parrish Bergquist Penn Political Science · Assistant · 6 years in post 273.5
18 Guy Grossman Penn Political Science · Distinguished · 14 years in post 246.9
19 Christopher Blair Princeton Politics · Assistant · 3 years in post 243.0
20 Thomas B. Pepinsky Cornell Government · Distinguished · 19 years in post 240.3

275,958 citations over 3,494 of 4,923 works (71% carry a count). 272 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 1717Brendan Nyhan · John Michael CareyBrendan Nyhan · John Michael Carey 88Daryl G. Press · JENNIFER M. LINDDaryl G. Press · JENNIFER M. LIND 88Daniel Ziblatt · Steven LevitskyDaniel Ziblatt · Steven Levitsky 77Adam Michael Auerbach · TARIQ THACHILAdam Michael Auerbach · TARIQ THACHIL 55Brendan Nyhan · Peter John LoewenBrendan Nyhan · Peter John Loewen 55Dustin Tingley · Helen V. MilnerDustin Tingley · Helen V. Milner 55Jason Barabas · Jennifer JeritJason Barabas · Jennifer Jerit 55Kosuke Imai · Shiro KuriwakiKosuke Imai · Shiro Kuriwaki 55Alan S. Gerber · Eric M. PatashnikAlan S. Gerber · Eric M. Patashnik 440510152025PairShared works

The pairs of the 309 selected academics who share the most of these works. 294 of the 4,923 selected works are held by two of them, making 176 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

Pick two academics to see how many of the selected works they share.