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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RankDistinguished
As of2014 · CV
DepartmentHarvard Government
UniversityHarvard
FieldPolitical Science

Totals

Publications18
Citations307
h-index9 · OpenAlex citations of CV works
Citations per year in post14.6
Years in post21 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count15 of 18
Share83%

Positions

Robert M. Beren Professor of Government, Harv…2014–
Professor of Government, Harvard University2009–2014
Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of…2009–2009
Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard Un…2005–2009
Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows2003–2007
Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge2001–2003

Top venues 13 venues

The 8 holding the most of these works; 5 more hold at least one.

The William and Mary Quarterly3
Political Theory2
The Historical Journal2
Commentary1
Eighteenth-Century Studies1
Harvard Law Review1
History of European Ideas1
Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies1

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

No drawing here: no year the filters keep carries a citation figure for this academic.

Publications 18 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
2008From Primary Goods to Capabilities: Distributive Justice and the Problem of NeutralityPolitical Theoryarticle76
2005Liberty: one concept too many?Political Theoryarticle62
2001Greek Nonsense in More’s UtopiaThe Historical Journalarticle46
2006Utopia through Italian Eyes: Thomas More and the Critics of Civic HumanismRenaissance Quarterlyarticle31
2007‘Talmudical Commonwealthsmen’ and the Rise of Republican ExclusivismThe Historical Journalarticle29
2001‘True Liberty’: Isocrates and Milton’s AreopagiticaMilton Studiesarticle24
2011Patriot Royalism: The Stuart Monarchy in American Political Thought, 1769-75The William and Mary Quarterlyarticle19
2018Representation and the FallModern Intellectual Historyarticle7
2016‘Barons’ Wars, under Other Names’: Feudalism, Royalism, and the American FoundingHistory of European Ideasarticle5
2018What kind of book is The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution?The New England Quarterlyarticle2
2017The Ideological Origins and the History of Political ThoughtEighteenth-Century Studiesarticle2
2013Hebraism and the Republican Turn of 1776: A Contemporary Account of the Debate over Common SenseThe William and Mary Quarterlyarticle2
2011Taking Them Seriously: Patriots, Prerogative, and the English Seventeenth CenturyThe William and Mary Quarterlyarticle2
2022ReplyJerusalem Review of Legal Studiesarticle0
2015A Response to Professor Helfman’s Review of The Royalist RevolutionHarvard Law Reviewarticle0
2025Justice Sotomayor was right for the wrong reasonsThe Economistarticle—
2022Wagner and the Antisemitism of ‘The Ring’Commentaryarticle—
2019James Wilson and the Ancient Constitution—article—