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

Every graph on this site

Publications

  • Ranking Ranked table
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work
  • Works published per year Lines over years
    • Measure: Total, Mean per academic, Median per academic
    • Calendar year or years since PhD
    • In each year or cumulative
  • Citations received per year Lines over years
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work, Mean per academic, Median per academic
    • In each year or cumulative
  • Citation distribution Bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations
  • Citations by age of work Lines over years
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work
  • Publication type mix Ranked bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
  • Top venues Ranked bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications

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Departments

  • Ranking Ranked table
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work, Mean per academic, Median per academic, Formula
  • Publications over time Lines over years
    • Measure: Total, Mean per academic, Median per academic, Formula
    • Calendar year or years since PhD
    • In each year or cumulative
  • Citations over time Lines over years
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations
    • Measure: Total, Mean per academic, Median per academic, Formula
    • In each year or cumulative
  • Makeup by tenure track Stacked bars
  • Output by rank Grouped bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work, Mean per academic, Median per academic, Formula
  • Academics ranked against academics Grouped bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
    • How many ranks (opens on 5)
  • Years to promotion Grouped bars
  • Journals used Stacked bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications

Journals

Fields

  • Ranking Ranked table
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work, Mean per academic, Median per academic
  • Departments by field Bars
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work, Mean per academic, Median per academic
  • University rollup Ranked bars
  • Coverage by field Ranked bars

Trackademia

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Search a person, a department, a journal or the title of a work. A person’s name brings up their profile, their publications, their department and the journals they publish in.

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TARIQ THACHIL

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Academic

RankDistinguished
As of2025 · CV
DepartmentPenn Political Science
UniversityPenn
FieldPolitical Science
Scholarprofile

Totals

Publications20
Citations1,798
h-index15 · Scholar
Citations per year in post112.4
Years in post16 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count17 of 20
Share85%

Positions

Faculty Fellow, Institute for Urban Research,…2025–
Faculty Associate, Penn Development and Resea…2023–
Professor of Political Science, University of…2022–
Madan Lal Sobti Professor for the Study of Co…2020–
Director, Center for Advanced Study of India,…2020–2025
Associate Professor of Political Science, Uni…2020–2022
Associate Professor of Political Science, Van…2016–2020
Peter Strauss Family Assistant Professor, Yal…2015–2016
Assistant Professor of Political Science and…2010–2015
Malathy Singh Postdoctoral Fellow, South Asia…2009–2010

Top venues 13 venues

American Political Science Review3
American Journal of Political Science2
Cambridge University Press eBooks1
Comparative Political Studies1
Comparative Politics1
Contemporary South Asia1
Perspectives on Politics1
Princeton University Press eBooks1
PS Political Science & Politics1
Studies in Comparative International Developm…1
The Journal of Politics1
World Development1
World Politics1

Collaborators

No collaborator here: no academic on another shown roster of this field holds any of these works. That is a measured zero and not an unknown - it says nothing about co-authors outside this site, who are names on a record rather than people on a roster.

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 publication type, works 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 publication types, not the works switch, not the year window on publication - and no weight either. It is a profile total, so it does not match the works listed below.

Publications 20 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.

YearTitleVenuePublication typeCitations
2016Elite parties, poor votersbook374
2018How Clients Select Brokers: Competition and Choice in India’s SlumsAmerican Political Science Reviewarticle334
2014Elite Parties and Poor Voters: Theory and Evidence from India.American Political Science Reviewarticle161
2011Embedded Mobilization: Nonstate Service Provision as Electoral Strategy in India.World Politicsarticle154
2021How Does COVID-19 Affect Urban Slums? Evidence from Settlement Leaders in IndiaWorld Developmentarticle124
2017Do Rural Migrants Divide Ethnically in the City? Ethnographic and Experimental Evidence From India.American Journal of Political Sciencearticle94
2014Elite Parties, Poor Voters: How Social Services Win Votes in IndiaCambridge University Press eBooksbook91
2022Rethinking the Study of Electoral Politics in the Developing World: Reflections on the Indian CasePerspectives on Politicsarticle66
2020Who Do Political Brokers Serve? Reputation, Responsiveness, and Ethnic Indifference in India’s SlumsAmerican Journal of Political Sciencearticle64
2023Migrants and Machine Politics: How India’s Urban Poor Seek Representation and ResponsivenessPrinceton University Press eBooksbook61
2018Improving Surveys Through Ethnography: Insights from India’s Urban Periphery.Studies in Comparative International Developmentarticle59
2015Ethnic Parties and Public Spending in the Indian StatesComparative Political Studiesarticle59
2020Does Police Repression Spur Everyday Cooperation? Evidence from Urban India.The Journal of Politicsarticle43
2009Neoliberalism’s Two Faces in Asia: Globalization, Educational Policies, and Religious Schooling in India, Pakistan and Malaysia.Comparative Politicsarticle43
2008Poor Choices: dealignment, development and Dalit/Adivasi voting patterns in Indian states.Contemporary South Asiaarticle36
2025Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small Town CouncilsAmerican Political Science Reviewarticle23
2018The Strategic and Moral Imperatives of Local Engagement: Reflections on IndiaPS Political Science & Politicsarticle12
2023Migrants and Machines: How Party Networks Form in an Urbanizing Indiabook
2019How does poor service delivery shape politics in clientelist settings?article
2019Making Sense of the 2019 General Electionarticle