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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Nolan McCarty

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Academic

RankDistinguished
As of2023 · CV
DepartmentPrinceton Politics
UniversityPrinceton
FieldPolitical Science
Scholarprofile

Totals

Publications14
Citations1,212
h-index44 · Scholar
Citations per year in post36.7
Years in post33 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count11 of 14
Share79%

Positions

Vice Dean for Academic Assessment in the Offi…2023–
Research associate, National Bureau of Econom…2012–
Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Pub…2007–
Fellow, Center for the Advanced Study in the…2004–2005
Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Pri…2003–2007
Associate professor of Politics and Public Af…2001–2003
Associate professor of Political Science (wit…2000–2001
Robert Eckles Swain National Fellow, Hoover I…1999–2000
and 3 more

Top venues 11 venues

The 8 holding the most of these works; 3 more hold at least one.

The Journal of Politics2
American Journal of Political Science1
Annual Review of Political Science1
Cambridge University Press eBooks1
Journal of Political Institutions and Politic…1
OPUS 4 (Zuse Institute Berlin)1
Perspectives on Politics1
Political Science Research and Methods1

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 14 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
2019Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know—book575
2020Polarization under Rising Inequality and Economic DeclineOPUS 4 (Zuse Institute Berlin)article180
2018On the Theory of PartiesAnnual Review of Political Sciencearticle109
2018Geography, Uncertainty, and PolarizationPolitical Science Research and Methodsarticle89
2022Two Decades of Polarization in American State LegislaturesJournal of Political Institutions and Political Economyarticle76
2021Inequality, Identity, and Partisanship: How redistribution can stem the tide of mass polarizationProceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesarticle69
2017Regulation and Self-Regulation of a Complex Industry.The Journal of Politicsarticle68
2019Can America Govern Itself?Cambridge University Press eBooksedited volume19
2023Agenda Control Under Policy UncertaintyAmerican Journal of Political Sciencearticle15
2018Pivotal Politics, Political Polarization, and Policy Predictability.The Journal of Politicsarticle11
2019Learning From Each Other: Causal Inference and American Political DevelopmentPublic Choicearticle1
2025Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era. By Paul Pierson and Eric Schickler. Chicago: The University of Chicago Pre…Perspectives on Politicsarticle—
—Political Bubbles (eGalley): Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy—book—
—Nathan D. GibsonThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social…article—