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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Margaret M. Weir

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Academic

RankDistinguished
As of2021 · CV
DepartmentBrown Political Science
UniversityBrown
FieldPolitical Science
Scholarprofile

Totals

Publications44
Citations1,147
h-index34 · Scholar
Citations per year in post28.0
Years in post41 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count32 of 44
Share73%

Positions

Wilson Professor of International and Public…2017–
Professor of Political Science and Internatio…2016–2017
Professor Emerita, University of California,…2016–
Avice M. Saint Endowed Chair in Public Policy…2012–2016
Director, University of California, Berkeley2002–2004
Professor, University of California-Berkeley1997–2016
Visiting Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins U…1995–1995
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution1992–1997
and 3 more

Top venues 21 venues

The 8 holding the most of these works; 13 more hold at least one.

Perspectives on Politics4
The Brookings Review3
Urban Affairs Review3
American Journal of Education1
Dissent1
eScholarship (California Digital Library)1
Health Affairs1
International Journal of Comparative Sociology1

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 44 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
1988Understanding American Social PoliticsPrinceton University Press eBooksarticle226
2009Collaboration is Not Enough: Virtuous Cycles of Reform in Transportation PolicyUrban Affairs Reviewarticle161
2005States, Race, and the Decline of New Deal LiberalismStudies in American Political Developmentarticle90
2005The Calculus of Coalitions: Cities, Suburbs, and the Metropolitan AgendaUrban Affairs Reviewarticle83
1993Las estructuras del Estado: una propuesta "keynesiana" a la Gran DepresiónZona abiertaarticle75
1996Central Cities’ Loss of Power in State Politics—article65
1994Urban Poverty and Defensive LocalismDissentarticle51
1983State Structures and Social Keynesianism: Responses to the Great Depression in Sweden and the United StatesInternational Journal of Comparative Sociologyarticle38
1988The Future of Social Policy in the United States: Political Constraints and Possibilities—article34
1992Innovation and Boundaries in American Employment PolicyPolitical Science Quarterlyarticle30
1997Is Anybody Listening?: The Uncertain Future of Welfare Reform in the CitiesThe Brookings Reviewarticle29
1982Public Schooling and Working Class Formation: The Case of the United StatesAmerican Journal of Educationarticle29
2009The Long Shadow of the Past: Risk Pooling and the Political Development of State Health Care ReformJournal of Health Politics Policy and Lawarticle28
2015The Power of Coalitions: Advancing the Public in California’s Public-Private Welfare StatePolitics & Societyarticle27
1993Race and Urban Poverty: Comparing Europe and AmericaThe Brookings Reviewarticle25
1987Full Employment as a Political Issue in the United StatesSocial researcharticle22
2018America’s Two Worlds of Welfare: Subnational Institutions and Social Assistance in Metropolitan AmericaPerspectives on Politicsarticle20
2020Governing the New Geography of Poverty in Metropolitan AmericaUrban Affairs Reviewarticle19
2004Challenging InequalityPerspectives on Politicsarticle17
2010Property Rights, Taxpayer Rights, and the Multiscalar Attack on the State: Consequences for Regionalism in the United StatesRegional Studiesarticle15
1995Institutional and Political Obstacles to ReformHealth Affairsarticle15
1985Race and Schooling: Reflections on the Social Bases of Urban Movements—article12
2007Multi-Level Power and Progressive RegionalismeScholarship (California Digital Library)article11
2010Collaborative Governance and Civic Empowerment: A Discussion of Investing in Democracy: Engaging Citizens in Collaborative GovernancePerspectives on Politicsarticle7
1995In the Shadows: Central Cities' Loss of Power in State PoliticsThe Brookings Reviewarticle6
2002Theda Skocpol: “Probing the Institutional Roots of Politics”PS Political Science & Politicsarticle4
2002The 2001-2002 California Workforce Survey: BACKGROUND, METHODS, AND SAMPLEState of California Laborarticle3
2010Investing in Democracy: Engaging Citizens in Collaborative GovernancePerspectives on Politicsarticle1
2003Cities and State Legislatures: Changing Coalitions and the Metropolitan Agenda, Working Paper 003—article1
1993Breaking Barriers, Forging New Bonds—article1
1992Commentary: Schooling, Citizenship, and the New American EconomyTeachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Educati…article1
—The Politics of Spatial Inequality—article1
2022Overlooked Suburbs: The Changing Metropolitan Geography of Poverty in the Western United States—article—
2020The Pandemic and the Production of Solidarity—article—
2018The Journal would like to thank all of the reviewers, including the following, and the members of the Editorial Board, who have very kindly contributed to our…—article—
2017Point: ACA Repeal Threatens America’s Rural Jobs—article—
2013Reach out to local governments, nonprofits and neighbors, on everything from maintenance to demolition—article—
2012Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects, Vol. 4: Building Resilient Regions edited by Margaret Weir, Nancy Pindus, Howard Wial, and Harold Wolman—article—
1997A lasting impression—article—
1996Materials Week evolves to meet member needs for annual...—article—
1996Materials science division becomes the materials science critical technologies sector—article—
1993Estructuras estatales y posibilidades de las respuestas keynesianas a la gran depresión en Suecia, Gran Bretaña y EEUURevista Hacienda Pública Españolaarticle—
1978Decline of the first MBThe Lancetarticle—
—&Theda Skocpol, The Future of Social Policy in the United States: Political Constraints and Possibilities—article—