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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Jacob S. Hacker

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Academic

RankDistinguished
As of2022 · CV
DepartmentYale Political Science
UniversityYale
FieldPolitical Science
Scholarprofile

Totals

Publications42
Citations2,274
h-index43 · Scholar
Citations per year in post94.8
Years in post24 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count18 of 42
Share43%

Positions

Co-Director, Carol and Gene Ludwig Program in…2022–
Co-Chair, APE Section, American Political Sci…2022–
Visiting Fellow, Max Planck-Sciences Po (MaxP…2022–2022
Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance, U…2022–2022
Co-Leader, Consortium on APE (CAPE), American…2020–
Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fel…2018–2018
Visiting Professor, Department of Political S…2018–2018
Co-Leader, Connecticut Chapter, Scholars Stra…2012–
and 13 more

Top venues 23 venues

The 8 holding the most of these works; 15 more hold at least one.

Perspectives on Politics4
The New York Times4
Vox3
Boston Review2
Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law2
The American Prospect2
The Annals of the American Academy of Politic…2
The Washington Post2

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 42 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 Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American DreamOUP Cataloguebook1,276
2020Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme InequalityMedical Entomology and Zoologybook400
2019Policy Feedback in an Age of PolarizationThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social…article125
2022The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and PowerCambridge University Press eBooksedited volume102
2020The Political Effects of Policy Drift: Policy Stalemate and American Political DevelopmentStudies in American Political Developmentarticle87
2022The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic GovernanceAnnual Review of Political Sciencearticle73
2018The Dog that Almost Barked: What the ACA Repeal Fight Says about the Resilience of the American Welfare StateJournal of Health Politics Policy and Lawarticle70
2020Reducing Risk as Well as Inequality: Assessing the Welfare State’s Insurance EffectsBritish Journal of Political Sciencearticle46
2023Bridging the Blue Divide: The Democrats’ New Metro Coalition and the Unexpected Prominence of RedistributionPerspectives on Politicsarticle30
2019The Republican Devolution: Partisanship and the Decline of American GovernanceForeign Affairsarticle17
2019Medicare Expansion as a Path as well as DestinationThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social…article11
2021Between the Waves: Building Power for a Public OptionJournal of Health Politics Policy and Lawarticle10
2017The Road to Medicare for EveryoneThe American Prospectarticle10
2018Social Security Plus—article6
2025Race, Responsiveness, and Representation in U.S. LawmakingAmerican Political Science Reviewarticle3
2025How the Economic and Political Geography of the United States Fuels Right-wing Populism—and What the Democratic Party can Do About It—article3
2021Medicare for More—Why We Still Need a Public Option and How to Get ThereNew England Journal of Medicinearticle3
2024THE NEW BLUE DIVIDE.Boston Reviewarticle2
2025America’s New Racial Battle Lines. By Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. 392p.Perspectives on Politicsarticle—
2024Arnold, R. Douglas. Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized AgeCongress & the Presidencyarticle—
2024BUILDING A BETTER PARTY.Boston Reviewarticle—
2023For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America by Jonathan D. CohenThe Journal of Interdisciplinary Historyarticle—
2022The Great Disconnect: Why are Americans So Unhappy about the Economy?The American Prospectarticle—
2022Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy. By Elizabeth Popp Berman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 344p…Perspectives on Politicsarticle—
2021Enacting Lasting Policies in an Era of Gridlock—article—
2021Democrats Need a New Social Security — Paid Family and Medical Leave is ItThe Boston Globearticle—
2021Why McConnell Gets Away With Filibustering˜The œAtlanticarticle—
2020Republicans Think They Can Get Away With It. They Might Be RightThe New York Timesarticle—
2020Average Workers Can’t Bear Any More Risk: The GOP Push to Give Businesses Immunity from Coronavirus Liability is Part of a Long, Ugly Trend˜The œAtlanticarticle—
2020GOP voters Want Medicaid Expansion. GOP Elites don’t. Something Has to GiveThe Washington Postarticle—
2019The Economy is Strong. So Why Do So Many Americans Still Feel at Risk?The New York Timesarticle—
2019Elizabeth Warren is Asking the Most Important Question on Health CareThe New York Timesarticle—
2019401(k)s Will Be Considered Unthinkable 50 Years from NowVoxarticle—
2018The Great Risk Shift that Helped Deliver Donald Trump—article—
2018Trump’s Tax Cuts are Worse than Fiercest Critics ClaimThe Washington Postarticle—
2018The New Economic Populism: How States Respond to Economic Inequality. By William W. Franko and Christopher Witko. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 248p…Perspectives on Politicsarticle—
2018How to Rescue RetirementPoliticoarticle—
2017The GOP is Trying to Pass a Super-Unpopular Agenda—and That’s a Bad Sign for DemocracyVoxarticle—
2017How Republicans Obsession with Tax Cuts Drove their Health Care Plan Over a CliffVoxarticle—
2017Robbing Blue States to Pay RedThe New York Timesarticle—
2017America’s Health Care WarIntereconomicsarticle—
—economic intervention, xv–xvi, 41–43, 81–83, 87–89, 92–94, 113–115, 117–122 intervention as function of long-term control of Congress and presidency—article—