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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Bryan Garsten

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Academic

RankFull
As of2014 · CV
DepartmentYale Political Science
UniversityYale
FieldPolitical Science
Scholarprofile

Totals

Publications20
Citations1,064
h-index10 · Scholar
Citations per year in post46.3
Years in post23 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count11 of 20
Share55%

Positions

Professor of Humanities, Yale University2014–
Professor of Political Science, Yale Universi…2009–
Associate Professor of Political Science, Yal…2008–2009
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yal…2004–2008
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Wil…2003–2004
Professor of Political Science, Yale Universi…
Professor of Humanities, Yale University

Top venues 14 venues

Journal of democracy2
Political Theory2
Annual Review of Political Science1
Critical Review1
Critical Review of International Social and P…1
European Journal of Political Theory1
Journal of the History of Ideas1
Medical Entomology and Zoology1
Modern Intellectual History1
Perspectives on Politics1
Polis The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman…1
Polity1
Social research1
The Review of Politics1

Collaborators 1 collaborator

Over every shown department of this field, not only the ones the filters select. 1 of these 20 works are held by another academic here; the column adds to more than that, because a work three of them hold is a shared work with each of the other two.

CollaboratorDepartmentShared works
Jennifer HochschildHarvard Government1

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
2006Saving Persuasion: A defense of rhetoric and judgmentbook761
2011The rhetoric revival in political theoryAnnual Review of Political Sciencearticle137
2008The Elusiveness of Arendtian JudgmentSocial researcharticle89
2010Religion and the case against ancient liberty: Benjamin Constant’s other lecturesPolitical Theoryarticle29
2012Liberalism and the rhetorical vision of politicsJournal of the History of Ideasarticle18
2011The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in PoliticsModern Intellectual Historyarticle8
2007The Idea of an Un-­‐Rhetorical PresidencyCritical Reviewarticle7
2013Rhetoric and human separateness in AristotlePolis The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Tho…article6
2024The Liberalism of RefugeJournal of democracyarticle5
2010Leviathanbook3
2024A Reply To My CriticsJournal of democracyarticle1
2026The Civic Power of Attention: “Keeping Our Thoughts on High Things”Polityarticle
2026Humanistic judgment ten experiments in readingarticle
2025The great reconciliation of reason and mythCritical Review of International Social and Political Philo…article
2020The Inheritance of Loss: Symposium on Jeffrey K. Tulis and Nicole Mellow, Legacies of Losing in American Politics , University of Chicago Press, 2018Political Theoryarticle
2019Hobbes and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns - Devin Stauffer: Hobbes's Kingdom of Light: A Study of the Foundations of Modern Political Philoso…The Review of Politicsarticle
2018Ethics and the Orator: The Ciceronian Tradition of Political Morality. By Gary A. Remer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 304p. $55.00 cloth.Perspectives on Politicsarticle
2012Rousseau, The Enlightenment, and Their Legaciesedited volume
2009European Journal of PoliticalEuropean Journal of Political Theoryarticle
2003Saving persuasion : rhetoric and judgment in political thoughtMedical Entomology and Zoologybook