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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Richard F. Bensel

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Academic

RankDistinguished
As of2022 · CV
DepartmentCornell Government
UniversityCornell
FieldPolitical Science
Scholarprofile

Totals

Publications37
Citations2,730
h-index12 · Scholar
Citations per year in post56.9
Years in post48 from the PhD year

Coverage

Works with a count21 of 37
Share57%

Positions

University Assembly, Faculty Senate represent…2021–
University Assembly, Vice Chair of Operations2021–2022
University Code and Judicial Committee2021–
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department…2018–2019
University Assembly, Faculty Senate represent…2018–2020
University Code and Judicial Committee2018–2020
Director of Placement, Department of Governme…2016–2017
Government Department Senator, Faculty Senate2015–
and 10 more

Top venues 17 venues

The 8 holding the most of these works; 9 more hold at least one.

Studies in American Political Development6
Cambridge University Press eBooks4
Civil War history3
Perspectives on Politics3
American Political Science Review2
Polity2
The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive…2
Journal of American 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 37 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
1990Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877Cambridge University Press eBooksbook1,042
2000The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900Cambridge University Press eBooksbook592
1984Sectionalism and American Political Development, 1880-1980The American Historical Reviewbook520
2004The American Ballot Box in the Mid-nineteenth CenturyCambridge University Press eBooksbook352
2008Passion and Preferences: William Jennings Bryan and the 1896 Democratic National ConventionMedical Entomology and Zoologybook58
1979The Effect of Electoral Rules on Voting Behavior: The Electoral College and Shift VotingPublic Choicearticle48
2003The American Ballot Box: Law, Identity, and the Polling Place in the Mid-Nineteenth CenturyStudies in American Political Developmentarticle32
1980Creating the Statutory State: The Implications of a Rule of Law Standard in American PoliticsAmerican Political Science Reviewarticle22
2022The Founding of Modern StatesCambridge University Press eBooksbook17
2003The Tension between American Political Development as a Research Comunity and as a Disciplinary SubfieldStudies in American Political Developmentarticle15
2016Lost in Translation: An Epistemological Exploration of the Relation between Historical Analysis and the NOMINATE AlgorithmStudies in American Political Developmentarticle13
2000Of Rules and Speakers: Towards a Theory of Institutional Change for the U.S. House of RepresentativesSocial Science Historyarticle7
2009Comments: Forum on Should We Abolish the "Gilded Age"?The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Eraarticle3
1982Sectional Stress and Ideology in the U.S. House of RepresentativesPolityarticle3
2008Valor and Valkyries: Why the State Needs ValhallaPolityarticle2
2000Reconstructing America: Consolidation of State Power, 1865–1890—article2
2011Comment on `Populism, Paranoia, and the Politics of Free Silver'Studies in American Political Developmentarticle1
2005Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social AnalysisPerspectives on Politicsarticle1
2022The Opening Dilemma: Why Democracies Cannot Found ThemselvesStudies in American Political Developmentarticle0
2011Comments on Aziz Rana, The Two Faces of American FreedomScholarship @ Cornell Law (Cornell University)article0
1999Rejoinder to: `Why No Parties?: Investigating the Disappearance of Democratic-Whig Divisions in the Confederacy'Studies in American Political Developmentarticle0
2025Agents of Empire: English Imperial Governance and the Making of American Political Institutions. By Sean Gailmard. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024.…Perspectives on Politicsarticle—
2025Looking Backward : Capitalism, Political Economy, and HistoryReviews in American Historyarticle—
2015Fighting for the Speakership: The House and the Rise of Party GovernmentPerspectives on Politicsarticle—
2011Reforming Jim Crow: Southern Politics and State in the Age Before Brown by Kimberley JohnsonPolitical Science Quarterlyarticle—
2009The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War (review)Civil War historyarticle—
2009Who Were the Gilders? And Other Seldom-Asked Questions about Business, Technology, and Political Economy in the United States, 1877-1900.The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Eraarticle—
2007The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been (review)Civil War historyarticle—
2005Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age PoliticsJournal of American Historyarticle—
2005Index to VolumeCivil War historyarticle—
1999Heroic Project Revisited - Paul A. C. Koistinen, Beating Plowshares into Swords: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1606–1865. Lawrence: University Pre…Journal of Policy Historyarticle—
1999Heroic Project Revisited—book—
1997The Making of an American Senate: Reconstitutive Change in Congress, 1787-1841American Political Science Reviewarticle—
1996The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics.The Journal of Southern Historyarticle—
1993Ballard, Michael B. 1986. A Long Shadow: Jefferson Davis and the Final Days—article—
1980The Regional Distribution of Aid to Families with Dependent Children—article—
—Admin1 units boundary persistence, 129 colonial, 65 definition, 17 and electoral blocs, 129—article—