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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Suzanne Mettler

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Academic

RankDistinguished
As of2018 · CV
DepartmentCornell Government
UniversityCornell
FieldPolitical Science
Scholarprofile

Totals

Publications34
Citations1,425
h-index35 · Scholar
Citations per year in post44.5
Years in post32 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count23 of 34
Share68%

Positions

John L. Senior Professor of American Institut…2018–
Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Instit…2007–2018
Distinguished Professor, Syracuse University,…2006–2007
Full Professor, Syracuse University, Maxwell…2006–2007
Alumni Associate Professor, Syracuse Universi…2002–2006
Associate Professor, Syracuse University2000–2002
Assistant Professor1994–2000
National Organizer, NETWORK, A Catholic Socia…1984–1987
and 2 more

Top venues 19 venues

The 8 holding the most of these works; 11 more hold at least one.

The Annals of the American Academy of Politic…4
Perspectives on Politics3
Policy Studies Journal3
Foreign Affairs2
Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law2
American Political Science Review1
Annual Review of Political Science1
Boston Review1

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 34 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 Trump Presidency and American Democracy: A Historical and Comparative AnalysisPerspectives on Politicsarticle237
2020Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy—book172
2018The Government-Citizen DisconnectRussell Sage Foundation eBooksbook167
2018When and How New Policy Creates New Politics: Examining the Feedback Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Public OpinionPerspectives on Politicsarticle152
2022The Growing Rural-Urban Political Divide and Democratic VulnerabilityThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social…article147
2024Sequential Polarization: The Development of the Rural-Urban Political Divide, 1976-2020Perspectives on Politicsarticle107
2021The Pathways of Policy Feedback: How Health Reform Influences Political Efficacy and Political ParticipationPolicy Studies Journalarticle70
2021When Rural and Urban Become ‘Us’ versus ‘Them’: How a Growing Divide is Reshaping American PoliticsThe Forumarticle55
2023Policy Threat, Partisanship, and the Case of the Affordable Care ActAmerican Political Science Reviewarticle47
2021Democratic Resilience: Can the United States Withstand Rising Polarization?—edited volume44
2019The Paradox of the Earned Income Tax Credit: Appreciating Benefits But Not Their SourcePolicy Studies Journalarticle38
2019Making What Government Does Apparent to Citizens: Policy Feedback Effects, Their Limitations, and How They Might Be FacilitatedThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social…article35
2020Revealing the ‘Hidden Welfare State’: How Policy Information Influences Public Attitudes about Tax ExpendituresJournal of Behavioral Public Administrationarticle34
2025Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide that Threatens DemocracyPrinceton University Press eBooksbook19
2024A Rural-Urban Political Divide Among Whom? Race, Ethnicity, and Political Behavior Across PlacePolitics Groups and Identitiesarticle19
2022Democratic vulnerabilities and pathways for reformThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social…article19
2020What Health Reform Tells Us About American PoliticsJournal of Health Politics Policy and Lawarticle16
2019Affordable Care Act Moving to New Stage of Public AcceptanceJournal of Health Politics Policy and Lawarticle15
2020The Fragile Republic: American Democracy Has Never Faced So Many Threats At OnceForeign Affairsarticle14
2023The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical ContextThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social…article10
2018The Welfare BoogeymanThe New York Timesarticle5
2025Rural Politics in the United StatesAnnual Review of Political Sciencearticle2
—From Shifting Modes of Governance to Transformed Civic Attitudes? Exploring Social Program Effects, 1970-2008—article1
2026Democrats Must Rebuild in Rural AmericaBoston Reviewarticle—
2025Rural RevivalWashington Monthlyarticle—
2023The Pathways of Policy Feedback: How Health Reform Influences Political Efficacy and Participation (Mar, 10.1111/psj. 12424, 2021)Policy Studies Journalarticle—
2020Republicans Are Relying on the Affordable Care Act to Respond to the PandemicThe Washington Postarticle—
2020Four Deadly Threats to American Democracy are Raging All At OnceLos Angeles Timesarticle—
2020A Plot Against an Embattled Governor? Militias Disrupting Elections? It Happened in the 1850s – And Holds a Lesson for Today.—article—
2020Where Next, America?—article—
2019Theodore J. Lowi, APSA President (1990-91) In MemoriamPS Political Science & Politicsarticle—
2017Outside of Washington, There is a New Vital Center in Health Reform—article—
2017Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive GovernmentForeign Affairsarticle—
—Recreational SexContemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviewsarticle—