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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David C. Johnston

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Academic

RankFull
As of2017 · CV
DepartmentColumbia Political Science
UniversityColumbia
FieldPolitical Science

Totals

Publications3
Citations33
h-index6 · OpenAlex citations of CV works
Citations per year in post0.7
Years in post46 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count2 of 3
Share67%

Positions

Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosop…2002–2009
Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Conte…1998–2002
Singer Associate Professor1996–1998
Assistant, then Associate Professor of Politi…1986–1996
Lecturer, then Assistant Professor, Yale Univ…1980–1986
Professor of Political Science, Columbia Univ…—
Professor of Political Science, Columbia Univ…—

Top venues 2 venues

Critical Review2
History of Political Thought1

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

No drawing here: no year the filters keep carries a citation figure for this academic.

Publications 3 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
1997Hayek’s Attack on Social JusticeCritical Reviewarticle27
1998Is the Idea of Social Justice Meaningful?Critical Reviewarticle6
1989Hobbes’s MortalismHistory of Political Thoughtarticle—