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

Publications13
Citations213
h-index43 · Scholar
Citations per year in post8.9
Years in post24 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count6 of 13
Share46%

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 8 venues

Perspectives on Politics3
Boston Review2
American Political Science Review1
Annual Review of Political Science1
Cambridge University Press eBooks1
Congress & the Presidency1
The American Prospect1
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History1

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 13 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 American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and PowerCambridge University Press eBooksedited volume102
2022The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic GovernanceAnnual Review of Political Sciencearticle73
2023Bridging the Blue Divide: The Democrats’ New Metro Coalition and the Unexpected Prominence of RedistributionPerspectives on Politicsarticle30
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
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—
—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—