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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Benjamin A. Valentino

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Academic

RankFull
As of2021 · CV
DepartmentDartmouth Government
UniversityDartmouth
FieldPolitical Science
Scholarprofile

Totals

Publications23
Citations2,001
h-index23 · Scholar
Citations per year in post87.0
Years in post23 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count19 of 23
Share83%

Positions

Chair, Department of Government, Dartmouth Co…2021–
Professor, Department of Government, Dartmout…2021–
Coordinator, War and Peace Studies Program, D…2013–
Associate Professor, Department of Government…2008–2021
Assistant Professor, Department of Government…2003–2008
Research Associate, Center for International…2001–2003
Instructor, Department of Political Science,…2001–2003
John M. Olin Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow i…2000–2001
and 1 more

Top venues 15 venues

The 8 holding the most of these works; 7 more hold at least one.

International Security3
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists2
Ethics & International Affairs2
International Studies Quarterly2
Security Studies2
The Monkey Cage2
ACM/IMS Transactions on Data Science1
EPJ Data Science1

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 23 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
2019Final solutions: Mass killing and genocide in the 20th century—book1,253
2017Revisiting Hiroshima in Iran: American Attitudes about Nuclear Weapons and Non-Combatant ImmunityInternational Securityarticle279
2022Kettles of Hawks: Public Opinion on the Nuclear Taboo and Noncombatant Immunity in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and IsraelSecurity Studiesarticle115
2019What do Americans really think about conflict with nuclear North Korea?Bulletin of the Atomic Scientistsarticle62
2018Not Just a War Theory: American Public Opinion on Ethics in Military CombatInternational Studies Quarterlyarticle44
2019Just War and Unjust Soldiers: American Public Opinion on the Moral Equality of CombatantsEthics & International Affairsarticle42
2019Animals Are People Too: Explaining Variation in Respect for Animal RightsHuman Rights Quarterlyarticle35
2023Quantifying Participation Biases on Social MediaEPJ Data Sciencearticle33
2020Weighing Lives in War: How National Identity Influences American Public Opinion about Foreign Civilian and Compatriot FatalitiesJournal of Global Security Studiesarticle23
2017The Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty: Opportunities LostBulletin of the Atomic Scientistsarticle23
2020Does the Non-Combatant Immunity Norm Have Stopping Power?International Securityarticle19
2017More Than Words: “Genocide,” Holocaust Analogies, and Public Opinion in the United StatesJournal of Human Rightsarticle18
2021Using Impression Data to Improve Models of Online Social InfluenceScientific Reportsarticle17
2025Atomic Arguments and Counter-Arguments: How Exposure to Conflicting Information Influences American Public Support for the Use of Nuclear WeaponsInternational Studies Quarterlyarticle12
2022Inconstant Care: Public Attitudes Toward Force Protection and Civilian Casualties in the United States, United Kingdom, and IsraelJournal of Conflict Resolutionarticle9
2023Public Opinion and the Nuclear Taboo Across Nations: An Exchange – The Authors ReplySecurity Studiesarticle6
2019On Reciprocity, Revenge, and Replication: A Rejoinder to Walzer, McMahan, and KeohaneEthics & International Affairsarticle5
2022An interpretable model for real-time tracking of economic indicatorsACM/IMS Transactions on Data Sciencearticle3
2019Who supports animal rights?The Monkey Cagearticle3
2021Taboo or Not Taboo: A Rebuttal and Research AgendaMershon International Studies Reviewarticle—
2020The Stopping Power of Norms: Saturation Bombing, Civilian Immunity, and US Attitudes toward the Laws of WarInternational Securityarticle—
2019Living with a Nuclear North Korea˜The œWall Street journal (Eastern ed. : Online)/˜The œWall…article—
2019Do Americans approve of Trump’s pardons for court-martialed military officers?The Monkey Cagearticle—