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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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Wendy J. Schiller

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Academic

RankDistinguished
As of2024 · CV
DepartmentBrown Political Science
UniversityBrown
FieldPolitical Science
Scholarprofile

Totals

Publications37
Citations1,200
h-index14 · Scholar
Citations per year in post37.5
Years in post32 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count20 of 37
Share54%

Positions

Howard Swearer Interim Director, Thomas J. Wa…2024–
Alison S. Ressler Professor of Political Scie…2023–
Director, Taubman Center for American Politic…2021–
Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence…2020–2023
Chair, Department of Political Science2015–2021
Professor, Brown University2015
Associate Professor, Brown University2000
Assistant Professor, Brown University1994
and 5 more

Top venues 17 venues

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

Legislative Studies Quarterly5
Political Science Quarterly4
Princeton University Press eBooks3
Congress & the Presidency2
DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Techno…2
Perspectives on Politics2
American Journal of Political Science1
Cambridge University Press eBooks1

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 37 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
1995Senators as Political Entrepreneurs: Using Bill Sponsorship to Shape Legislative Agendas.American Journal of Political Sciencearticle612
2021Partners and RivalsPrinceton University Press eBooksbook195
2018The Contemporary Congress—book119
2006Building Careers and Courting Constituents: U.S. Senate Representation 1889-1924.Studies in American Political Developmentarticle54
2015Electing the Senate: Indirect Democracy before the Seventeenth AmendmentPrinceton University Press eBooksbook52
1999Trade Politics in the American Congress: A Study of the Interaction of Political Geography and Interest Group Behavior.Political Geographyarticle30
2013U.S. Senate Elections before the 17th Amendment: Political Party Cohesion and Conflict 1871– 1913.The Journal of Politicsarticle21
2011Gateways to Democracy: An Introduction to American Government—book20
2005U.S. Senate Elections before 1914DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)article18
2023Inequality Across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United StatesCambridge University Press eBooksbook16
2022Federalism, Policy Diffusion, and Gender Equality: Explaining Variation in State Domestic Firearm Laws 1990-2017.State Politics & Policy Quarterlyarticle15
2003Tactical and Contextual Determinants of U.S. Senators' Approval Ratings.Legislative Studies Quarterlyarticle15
2000Partners and Rivals: Representation in U.S. Senate DelegationsPrinceton University Press eBooksbook9
2023Obstacles to Federal Policy Adoption: The case of Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction in Native American Tribal Nations.Perspectives on Politicsarticle6
2021Dynamics of American Democracy: Partisan Polarization, Political Competition and Government PerformanceUniversity Press of Kansas eBooksedited volume6
2020Litigating Lives and Gender Inequality: Public Defenders, Policy Implementation, and Domestic Violence Sentencing.Journal of Women Politics & Policyarticle4
2011Senate Delegation Dynamics in an Age of Party PolarizationThe Forumarticle4
2000Has Free Trade Won the War in Congress, or is the Battle Still Raging?SMU Scholar (Southern Methodist University)article2
1997Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris.Political Science Quarterlyarticle2
2020Walking in Large Footprints and Forging New PathsPS Political Science & Politicsarticle0
2025Gateways to Democracy: An Introduction to American Government, 6th Edition—book—
2025Intersectional Advocacy: Redrawing Policy Boundaries Around Gender, Race, and Class. By Margaret Perez Brower. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 302p…Perspectives on Politicsarticle—
2016Graduate Students and U.S. Legislative Politics: The Road Ahead—article—
2015Gateways to Democracy: An Introduction to American Government, Essentials—book—
2015Grimmer, Justin, Sean J. Westwood, and Solomon Messing.The Impression of Influence: Legislator Communication, Representation, and Democratic AccountabilityCongress & the Presidencyarticle—
2012Howard Baker’s Leadership in the U.S. Senate: Lessons in Persuasion, Civility, and Success—article—
2006The New Congress: How Congress Has Changed Its Ways—article—
2006Andrew J. Taylor, Elephant's Edge: The Republicans as a Ruling PartyPolitical Science Quarterlyarticle—
2005Party Control and Legislator Loyalty in Senate ElectionsDSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)article—
2004The geography of power: Coalition formation and industry influence in the house and senate, 1880-1930.Legislative Studies Quarterlyarticle—
2003Tactical and Contextual Determinants of US Senators’ Approval Ratings1 Brian Schaffner Department of Political Science Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, M…Legislative Studies Quarterlyarticle—
2000Edward M. Kennedy: A BiographyPolitical Science Quarterlyarticle—
1997States as two-member districts. The effect of dual representation on Senate behavior and constituent awareness.Legislative Studies Quarterlyarticle—
1997Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris, by Richard KlugerPolitical Science Quarterlyarticle—
1996Stein, Robert M., and Kenneth N. Bickers. Perpetuating the Pork Barrel: Policy Subsystems and American DemocracyCongress & the Presidencyarticle—
1993THE CALCULUS OF BILL INTRODUCTION IN THE UNITED-STATES-SENATE-A PRELIMINARY EXPLORATIONLegislative Studies Quarterlyarticle—
1976Doing Justice--The Choice of Punishments—article—