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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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Rudra Sil

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Academic

RankFull
As of2024 · CV
DepartmentPenn Political Science
UniversityPenn
FieldPolitical Science
Scholarprofile

Totals

Publications31
Citations1,945
h-index25 · Scholar
Citations per year in post64.8
Years in post30 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count26 of 31
Share84%

Positions

Director of Graduate Studies, University of P…2021–2024
Professor of Political Science, University of…2012–
SAS Director, Huntsman Program in Internation…2011–
Director of Undergraduate Studies, University…2004–2009
Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvan…2003–2012
Bers Chair in the Social Sciences, University…2000–2003
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvan…1996–2003
Professor of Political Science, University of…—

Top venues 17 venues

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

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclea…5
Economy and Society2
Journal of Industrial Relations2
Mershon International Studies Review2
Perspectives on Politics2
Comparative Political Studies1
Current History1
Economic and Industrial Democracy1

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 31 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
2010Reconfiguring Problems and Mechanisms Across Research Traditions: The Role of Analytic Eclecticism in the Study of World PoliticsPerspectives on Politicsarticle879
2012When Multi-Method Research Subverts Methodological Pluralism – Or, Why We Still Need Single-Method ResearchPerspectives on Politicsarticle171
2000The Foundations of Eclecticism: The Epistemological Status of Agency, Culture, and Structure in Social TheoryJournal of Theoretical Politicsarticle142
2004State Legitimacy and the (In)significance of Democracy in Post-Communist RussiaEurope Asia Studiesarticle134
2011De-centering, not Discarding, the ‘Isms’: Some Friendly Amendments” – Response to David A. Lake, “Why ‘Isms’ are EvilInternational Studies Quarterlyarticle90
2009Beliefs as rules for action: Pragmatism as a theory of thought and actionMershon International Studies Reviewarticle85
2009Simplifying Pragmatism: From Social Theory to Problem-Driven EclecticismMershon International Studies Reviewarticle61
2000The Division of Labor in Social Science Research: Unified Methodology or ‘Organic Solidarity’?Polityarticle54
2007Stretching Postcommunism: Diversity, Context and Comparative Historical AnalysisPost-Soviet Affairsarticle48
2005What is Analytic Eclecticism and Why Do We Need It? A Pragmatic Perspective on Problems and Mechanisms in the Study of World Politics—article47
2006Communist Legacies, Postcommunist Transformations, and the Fate of Organized Labor in Russia and ChinaStudies in Comparative International Developmentarticle42
2009Is Multi-Method Research Really Better?Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)article37
2017The Battle Over Flexibilization in Post-Communist Transitions: Labor Politics in Poland and the Czech Republic, 1989-2010Journal of Industrial Relationsarticle25
2010Analytic Eclecticism: Not Perfect, But IndispensableZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)article18
2020The Dynamics of Labor Militancy in the Extractive Sector: Kazakhstan's Oilfields and South Africa's Platinum Belt in Comparative PerspectiveComparative Political Studiesarticle17
2018Anatomy of a Massacre: The Roots of Heightened Labour Militancy in South Africa's Platinum BeltEconomy and Societyarticle15
2019The Fate of Labor After Regime Change: Lessons From Post-Communist Poland and Post- Apartheid South Africa For Tunisia’s Nobel-Prize Winning UnionsEconomic and Industrial Democracyarticle14
2009Area Studies, Comparative Politics, and the Utility of Cross-Regional Small-N ComparisonZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)article11
2020Comparative Area Studies and the Study of the Global SouthVestnik RUDN International Relationsarticle10
2018The Dynamics of Labour Protest in an Era of Declining Social ProtectionEconomy and Societyarticle10
2016Avant-Garde or Dogmatic? DA-RT [Data Access & Research Transparency] in the Mirror of the Social Sciences—article10
2020Analytic Eclecticism – Continuing the ConversationInternational Journal Canada s Journal of Global Policy Ana…article9
2014Which BRIC Will Wield the Most Influence in Twenty-Five Years? Russia ReconsideredInternational Studies Reviewarticle6
2017Labor’s Travails in Postcommunist Eastern EuropeCurrent Historyarticle5
2025Sites, Phenomena, and the Search for Usable Knowledge: Beyond the ‘Standard Model’ of Political Science?Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)article3
2005The Legacies of Soviet Nationality Politics and Divergent Patterns of Post-Soviet Ethno-Political Mobilization: Russian Minorities in the Baltics and Central A…—article2
2026We Need a Revitalized Area Studies—article—
2013Introduction: Symposium on Deconstructing Social Science ConceptsZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)article—
2003Christopher Candland and Rudra Sil (eds), The Politics of Labor in a Global Age: Continuity and Change in Late-industrializing and Post-socialist EconomiesJournal of Industrial Relationsarticle—
2001Beyond Boundaries? Disciplines, Paradigms, and Theoretical Integration in International Studies: Rudra Sil and Eileen M. Doherty; Albany, NY: State University…—article—
1998Comment on “International Division of Labour in Contemporary Political Science”—article—