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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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Suzanne Mettler

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RankDistinguished
As of2018 · CV
DepartmentCornell Government
UniversityCornell
FieldPolitical Science
Scholarprofile

Totals

Publications79
Citations8,725
h-index35 · Scholar
Citations per year in post272.7
Years in post32 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count56 of 79
Share71%

Positions

John L. Senior Professor of American Institut…2018–
Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Instit…2007–2018
Distinguished Professor, Syracuse University,…2006–2007
Full Professor, Syracuse University, Maxwell…2006–2007
Alumni Associate Professor, Syracuse Universi…2002–2006
Associate Professor, Syracuse University2000–2002
Assistant Professor1994–2000
National Organizer, NETWORK, A Catholic Socia…1984–1987
and 2 more

Top venues 34 venues

The 8 holding the most of these works; 26 more hold at least one.

Perspectives on Politics8
Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law4
The Annals of the American Academy of Politic…4
The New York Times4
Policy Studies Journal3
Studies in American Political Development3
American Political Science Review2
Foreign Affairs2

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 79 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
2004The Consequences of Public Policy for Democratic Citizenship: Bridging Policy Studies and Mass PoliticsPerspectives on Politicsarticle1,351
2011The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy—book1,262
2005Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation—book1,191
2002Bringing the State Back In to Civic Engagement: Policy Feedback Effects of the G.I. Bill for World War II VeteransAmerican Political Science Reviewarticle743
1998Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public PolicyCornell University Press eBooksbook654
2014Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American DreamHistory of Education Quarterlybook639
2019The Trump Presidency and American Democracy: A Historical and Comparative AnalysisPerspectives on Politicsarticle237
2016The Policyscape and the Challenges of Contemporary Politics to Policy MaintenancePerspectives on Politicsarticle192
2020Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy—book172
2018The Government-Citizen DisconnectRussell Sage Foundation eBooksbook167
2008Government Program Usage and Political VoiceSocial Science Quarterlyarticle156
2018When and How New Policy Creates New Politics: Examining the Feedback Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Public OpinionPerspectives on Politicsarticle152
2010Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenges of Social Policy Reform in the Obama EraPerspectives on Politicsarticle148
2022The Growing Rural-Urban Political Divide and Democratic VulnerabilityThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social…article147
2004Civic Generation: Policy Feedback Effects of the G.I. Bill on Political Involvement Over the Life CourseBritish Journal of Political Sciencearticle140
2007Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of InequalityRussell Sage Foundation eBooksedited volume121
2005The Creation of the G.I. Bill of Rights of 1944: Melding Social and Participatory Citizenship IdealsJournal of Policy Historyarticle109
2024Sequential Polarization: The Development of the Rural-Urban Political Divide, 1976-2020Perspectives on Politicsarticle107
2011Why Public Opinion Changes: The Implications for Health and Health PolicyJournal of Health Politics Policy and Lawarticle97
2008On Race and Policy History: A Dialogue About the G.I. BillPerspectives on Politicsarticle78
2021The Pathways of Policy Feedback: How Health Reform Influences Political Efficacy and Political ParticipationPolicy Studies Journalarticle70
2000States’ Rights, Women’s Obligations: Contemporary Welfare Reform in Historical PerspectiveJournal of Women Politics & Policyarticle65
2021When Rural and Urban Become ‘Us’ versus ‘Them’: How a Growing Divide is Reshaping American PoliticsThe Forumarticle55
2005‘The Only Good Thing Was the G.I. Bill:’ Program Effects on African American Veterans’ Political ParticipationStudies in American Political Developmentarticle52
2023Policy Threat, Partisanship, and the Case of the Affordable Care ActAmerican Political Science Reviewarticle47
2021Democratic Resilience: Can the United States Withstand Rising Polarization?—edited volume44
2007American Political Development from Citizens’ Perspective: Tracking Federal Government’s Presence in Individual Lives over TimeStudies in American Political Developmentarticle44
1998`More a Distinction of Words than Things: The Evolution of Separated Powers in the American StatesRoger Williams University - Digital Commons (Roger Williams…article41
2019The Paradox of the Earned Income Tax Credit: Appreciating Benefits But Not Their SourcePolicy Studies Journalarticle38
2016Oxford Handbook of American Political Development—edited volume36
2019Making What Government Does Apparent to Citizens: Policy Feedback Effects, Their Limitations, and How They Might Be FacilitatedThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social…article35
2020Revealing the ‘Hidden Welfare State’: How Policy Information Influences Public Attitudes about Tax ExpendituresJournal of Behavioral Public Administrationarticle34
2016Liking Health Reform But Turned Off by Toxic PoliticsHealth Affairsarticle30
1994Federalism, Gender and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938Polityarticle29
2025Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide that Threatens DemocracyPrinceton University Press eBooksbook19
2024A Rural-Urban Political Divide Among Whom? Race, Ethnicity, and Political Behavior Across PlacePolitics Groups and Identitiesarticle19
2022Democratic vulnerabilities and pathways for reformThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social…article19
1998Dividing Social Citizenship by Gender: The Implementation of Unemployment Insurance and Aid to Dependent Children, 1935-1950Studies in American Political Developmentarticle18
2011Our Hidden Government BenefitsThe New York Timesarticle17
2020What Health Reform Tells Us About American PoliticsJournal of Health Politics Policy and Lawarticle16
2019Affordable Care Act Moving to New Stage of Public AcceptanceJournal of Health Politics Policy and Lawarticle15
2020The Fragile Republic: American Democracy Has Never Faced So Many Threats At OnceForeign Affairsarticle14
1999The Stratification of Social Citizenship: Gender and Federalism in the Formation of Old Age Insurance and Aid to Dependent ChildrenJournal of Policy Historyarticle13
2015From Pioneer Egalitarianism to the Reign of the Superrich: How the U.S. Political System Has Promoted Equality and Inequality Over Time—article12
2014Equalizers No More˜The œchronicle of higher educationarticle12
2014College: The Great UnlevelerThe New York Timesarticle12
2015Twenty Years On: Paul Pierson’s Dismantling the Welfare StatePS Political Science & Politicsarticle11
2023The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical ContextThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social…article10
2012Who Says They Have Ever Used A Government Social Program? The Role of Policy Visibility—article10
201120,000 Leagues Under the StateWashington Monthlyarticle10
2018The Welfare BoogeymanThe New York Timesarticle5
2011Public Opinion, Health Policy, and American PoliticsJournal of Health Politics Policy and Lawedited volume3
2025Rural Politics in the United StatesAnnual Review of Political Sciencearticle2
2010Bridging Historical Institutionalism and the Study of Political Behavior: A Promising Intellectual Agenda—article2
2005American democracy and inequalityDissentarticle2
—From Shifting Modes of Governance to Transformed Civic Attitudes? Exploring Social Program Effects, 1970-2008—article1
2026Democrats Must Rebuild in Rural AmericaBoston Reviewarticle—
2025Rural RevivalWashington Monthlyarticle—
2023The Pathways of Policy Feedback: How Health Reform Influences Political Efficacy and Participation (Mar, 10.1111/psj. 12424, 2021)Policy Studies Journalarticle—
2020Republicans Are Relying on the Affordable Care Act to Respond to the PandemicThe Washington Postarticle—
2020Four Deadly Threats to American Democracy are Raging All At OnceLos Angeles Timesarticle—
2020A Plot Against an Embattled Governor? Militias Disrupting Elections? It Happened in the 1850s – And Holds a Lesson for Today.—article—
2020Where Next, America?—article—
2019Theodore J. Lowi, APSA President (1990-91) In MemoriamPS Political Science & Politicsarticle—
2017Outside of Washington, There is a New Vital Center in Health Reform—article—
2017Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive GovernmentForeign Affairsarticle—
2016Why Public Opinion on Obamacare Should Worry Us AllThe Hillarticle—
2016Clinton Rossiter Professor of American InstitutionsPerspectives on Politicsarticle—
2015What Have We Learned, Two Decades After the" End of Welfare"?—article—
2014More Bad News for Millenials: College is Actually Making Inequality Worse—article—
2012We Are the 96 PercentThe New York Timesarticle—
2011Obama’s Forgotten Triumphs—article—
2008Back to SchoolDemocracy: A Journal of Ideasarticle—
2007The GI Bill—article—
2006Toward a G.I. Bill for the Twenty-First Century—article—
2005When Government WithersThe Christian Science Monitorarticle—
2005Why Skimp on the G.I. Bill?Los Angeles Timesarticle—
1998Dividing Citizens: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast—book—
—Recreational SexContemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviewsarticle—