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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Kate Baldwin

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Academic

RankAssociate
As of2023 · CV
DepartmentYale Political Science
UniversityYale
FieldPolitical Science
Scholarprofile

Totals

Publications23
Citations2,451
h-index14 · Scholar
Citations per year in post163.4
Years in post15 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count21 of 23
Share91%

Positions

Associate Professor, Department of Political…2023–
Peter Strauss Family Associate Professor (on…2020–2023
Peter Strauss Family Assistant Professor, Dep…2017–2020
Affiliated Faculty, Georg Walter Leitner Prog…2014–
Affiliated Faculty, Macmillan Center for Inte…2013–
Non-Resident Fellow, Yale Institution for Soc…2013–
Assistant Professor, Department of Political…2013–2017
Assistant Professor, Department of Political…2011–2013
Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Dem…2010–2011
Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Alexander Hamilton Cente…2009–2010

Top venues 15 venues

Comparative Political Studies3
American Journal of Political Science2
Cambridge University Press eBooks2
World Politics2
American Political Science Review1
Annual Review of Political Science1
Comparative Politics1
Current History1
Journal of democracy1
Journal of Globalization and Development1
Political Science Research and Methods1
Quarterly Journal of Political Science1
Studies in Comparative International Developm…1
The Journal of Politics1
World Development1

Collaborators 1 collaborator

Over every shown department of this field, not only the ones the filters select. 1 of these 23 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
John D. HuberColumbia Political Science1

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 23 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
2010Economic versus Cultural Differences: Forms of Ethnic Diversity and Public Goods Provision.American Political Science Reviewarticle641
2016The Paradox of Traditional Chiefs in Democratic AfricaCambridge University Press eBooksbook609
2013Why Vote with the Chief? Political Connections and Public Goods Provision in Zambia.American Journal of Political Sciencearticle403
2014When Politicians Cede Control of Resources: Land, Chiefs and Coalition-Building in Africa.Comparative Politicsarticle222
2019Traditional Political Institutions and Democracy: Reassessing their Compatibility and Accountability.Comparative Political Studiesarticle108
2020How Do Different Forms of Foreign Aid Affect Government Legitimacy? Evidence from an Informational Experiment in Uganda.Studies in Comparative International Developmentarticle94
2015Elections and Collective Action: Evidence from Changes in Traditional Institutions in Liberia.World Politicsarticle89
2019Elected MPs, Traditional Chiefs and Local Public Goods: Evidence on the Role of Leaders in Co-Production from Rural Zambia.Comparative Political Studiesarticle81
2018Bypass Aid and Perceptions of Local Government Performance and Legitimacyarticle36
2022Accountability and Inclusion in Customary Institutions: Evidence from a Village-Level Experiment in Zimbabwe.Quarterly Journal of Political Sciencearticle34
2023Foreign Aid and Political Support: How Politicians’ Aid Oversight Capacity and Voter Information Condition Credit Giving.World Politicsarticle32
2023How Political Insiders Lose Out When International Aid Underperforms: Evidence from a Participatory Development Experiment in Ghana.World Developmentarticle31
2020Chiefs, Democracy and Development in Contemporary AfricaCurrent Historyarticle15
2025Is Authority Fungible? Legitimacy, Domain Congruence, and the Limits of Power in Africa.American Journal of Political Sciencearticle14
2023Does Land Quality Increase the Power of Traditional Leaders in Contemporary Africa?The Journal of Politicsarticle13
2025Traditional Authorities Around the World: Toward a Better Understanding of their De Facto Power, Downward Accountability and State Recognition.Annual Review of Political Sciencearticle10
2015Ancillary Studies of Experiments: Opportunities and Challenges.Journal of Globalization and Developmentarticle7
2023Pandemic Risk and Demand for Social Protection in an Era of Populism.Political Science Research and Methodsarticle5
2011Secondary Analyses of Experiments: Opportunities and Challengesarticle5
2025Faith in Democracy: The Logic of Church Advocacy for Liberal Democratic Institutions in AfricaCambridge University Press eBooksbook1
2023Democracy’s Devout Defenders.Journal of democracyarticle1
2025Doing Comparative Politics: Perspectives from Pathbreaking Womenedited volume
2019Special Issue: Traditional Political Institutions in Contemporary PoliticsComparative Political Studiesedited volume