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.
Trackademia
Value Statistic Unit

Academics

Citations per year in post (from the first professorial appointment, else the PhD year) · the 20 highest of 309 academics
1 Andrew M. Guess Princeton Politics · Associate · 9 years in post 363.4
2 Brendan Nyhan Dartmouth Government · Distinguished · 15 years in post 252.5
3 Luca Bellodi Yale Political Science · Assistant · 1 years in post 221.0
4 Joshua Kalla Yale Political Science · Full · 7 years in post 218.7
5 Christopher Blair Princeton Politics · Assistant · 3 years in post 208.3
6 Sean J. Westwood Dartmouth Government · Associate · 11 years in post 121.4
7 Shiro Kuriwaki Yale Political Science · Assistant · 4 years in post 115.0
8 Kosuke Imai Harvard Government · Full · 22 years in post 112.0
9 Joshua David Kertzer Harvard Government · Distinguished · 12 years in post 103.2
10 Robert A. Blair Brown Political Science · Associate · 11 years in post 93.8
11 Jamila Michener Cornell Government · Full · 13 years in post 88.6
12 Guadalupe Tuñón Princeton Politics · Assistant · 6 years in post 86.2
13 Daniel C. Mattingly Yale Political Science · Associate · 9 years in post 79.2
14 Parrish Bergquist Penn Political Science · Assistant · 6 years in post 75.3
15 Noah Zucker Princeton Politics · Assistant · 3 years in post 70.7
16 Guy Grossman Penn Political Science · Distinguished · 14 years in post 68.8
17 Talbot M. Andrews Cornell Government · Assistant · 5 years in post 68.6
18 John Marshall Columbia Political Science · Associate · 10 years in post 67.0
19 Nikhar Gaikwad Columbia Political Science · Assistant · 7 years in post 66.6
20 Marcel F. Roman Harvard Government · Assistant · 2 years in post 66.5

49,906 citations over 1,634 of 2,271 works (72% carry a count). 253 of 309 academics have at least one counted work. A work with no citation count is unknown here, never a zero.

Publications by career year

Publications in each year of a career
Statistic

Pooled over the 268 of 309 academics whose CV states a PhD year, across 8 departments; career year 0 is the PhD year. A career year fewer than 5 of them have reached is a gap. A total counts only the academics who had reached that career year, so the tail is low because fewer of them are in it; the mean and the median divide by exactly those academics.

Citations by career year

Citations of the works published in each career year
Value Statistic

Pooled over the 268 of 309 academics whose CV states a PhD year, across 8 departments; career year 0 is the PhD year. A career year fewer than 5 of them have reached is a gap. The citations of the works published in that career year, not the citations received in it. A total counts only the academics who had reached that career year, so the tail is low because fewer of them are in it; the mean and the median divide by exactly those academics.

Publications per year

Works published in each year
Statistic Unit Each point

One line, publications per academic over the 309 academics the filters select, by the year each work was published; an undated work is in no year. A work two of them share counts for each of them.

Citations per year

Citations received in each year
Statistic Unit Each point

One line, citations per academic over the 309 academics the filters select. Citations received in each year, from the academics’ verified Scholar profiles, which count every citation to everything they wrote: no publication filter reaches this line, and no journal weight either, which is why it offers no Value.

h-index

Academics at each h-index
Series: Academics.0204060801001–4 Academics 22225–9 Academics 373710–19 Academics 939320–39 Academics 848440+ Academics 47471–45–910–1920–3940+Academicsh-index

The verified Scholar profile’s h-index where there is one, else computed from the OpenAlex citations of the academic’s CV works (definitions section 6): Scholar for 232 academics, OpenAlex citations of CV works for 51, 26 with no h-index. Never OpenAlex’s author-level figure, and no filter here moves it.

Makeup by rank

Academics at each current rank
Series: value.DistinguishedDistinguished 100100FullFull 5757AssociateAssociate 5151AssistantAssistant 6161ResearchResearch 11PostdocPostdoc 22UnknownUnknown 3737020406080100RankAcademics

The current rank of every academic the filters keep (definitions section 7). A rank is current as of the CV, so no year window or kind moves it.

Top collaborators

Works two of the selected academics both hold
Series: value.Andrew M. Guess · Brendan NyhanAndrew M. Guess · Brendan Nyhan 1111Alan S. Gerber · Gregory Alain HuberAlan S. Gerber · Gregory Alain Huber 1010Douglas L. Kriner · Sarah E. KrepsDouglas L. Kriner · Sarah E. Kreps 1010Brendan Nyhan · John Michael CareyBrendan Nyhan · John Michael Carey 66Brendan Nyhan · Peter John LoewenBrendan Nyhan · Peter John Loewen 55Daniel Ziblatt · Steven LevitskyDaniel Ziblatt · Steven Levitsky 55Daryl G. Press · JENNIFER M. LINDDaryl G. Press · JENNIFER M. LIND 44Kosuke Imai · Shiro KuriwakiKosuke Imai · Shiro Kuriwaki 44Alan S. Gerber · Eric M. PatashnikAlan S. Gerber · Eric M. Patashnik 33Christopher Blair · Michael HorowitzChristopher Blair · Michael Horowitz 33Markus Prior · Talbot M. AndrewsMarkus Prior · Talbot M. Andrews 33Adam Michael Auerbach · TARIQ THACHILAdam Michael Auerbach · TARIQ THACHIL 220246810PairShared works

The pairs of the 309 selected academics who share the most of these works. 140 of the 2,271 selected works are held by two of them, making 106 pairs - a work three of them share is three pairs, so the two figures are different quantities and neither is a sum of the other. Only collaborations inside this selection are here: a work written with somebody outside it is counted everywhere else on this page and cannot be paired.

First Second

Pick two academics to see how many of the selected works they share.