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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Torben Iversen

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Academic

RankDistinguished
As of2017 · CV
DepartmentHarvard Government
UniversityHarvard
FieldPolitical Science
Scholarprofile

Totals

Publications9
Citations125
h-index52 · Scholar
Citations per year in post3.9
Years in post32 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count6 of 9
Share67%

Positions

BP Centennial Professor, London School of Eco…2016–2017
Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Politic…2005–
Faculty Associate, Institute for Quantitative…2002–
Professor, Department of Government, Harvard…2001–2005
John L. Loeb Associate Professor, Department…1999–2001
Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center for Int…1999–
Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell Nati…1999–2000
Assistant Professor, Department of Government…1994–1999
and 2 more

Top venues 6 venues

Comparative Political Studies2
American Political Science Review1
Cambridge University Press eBooks1
Socio-Economic Review1
Theory and Society1
World Politics1

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 9 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
2022The Democratic State and Redistribution: Whose Interests Are Served?American Political Science Reviewarticle50
2022Big Data and the Welfare State: How the Information Revolution Threatens SolidarityCambridge University Press eBooksbook39
2022Information and Financialization: Credit Markets as a New Source of InequalityComparative Political Studiesarticle21
2024Probabilistic justice against status defense: inequality, uncertainty, and the future of the welfare stateTheory and Societyarticle8
2025The Politics of Pessimism: Unfunded Public Goods as a Source of Right-Wing PopulismComparative Political Studiesarticle4
2025Unleashing a Monster? Causes and Consequences of the Knowledge Economy in Advanced Capitalist DemocraciesWorld Politicsarticle3
2022Big Data and the Welfare State: Introduction; 2. A theoretical framework; 3. A brief analytical history of social protection; 4. Private markets for life and h…—book—
—Women, work, and politics: the political economy of gender inequality—book—
—The Political Economy of Skills and InequalitySocio-Economic Reviewedited volume—