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
309 academics under these filters. Open a row to see where each number came from.
Name Department Rank Publications Citations h-index
Andrew Gelman Columbia Political Science Distinguished 511 153,189 141
Gary King Harvard Government Distinguished 327 103,153 118
Kosuke Imai Harvard Government Full 161 58,564 75
Donald P. Green Columbia Political Science Distinguished 226 48,562 100
Peter A. Hall Harvard Government Distinguished 124 42,035 69
Brendan Nyhan Dartmouth Government Distinguished 99 38,225 61
Dustin Tingley Harvard Government Distinguished 98 37,922 62
James M. Snyder, Jr. Harvard Government Distinguished 139 27,381 80
Andreas Wimmer Columbia Political Science Distinguished 100 25,178 49
Alan S. Gerber Yale Political Science Distinguished 136 24,303 70
Steven Levitsky Harvard Government Distinguished 85 23,624 69
Beth Simmons Penn Political Science Distinguished 86 23,360 59
Amy Gutmann Penn Political Science Distinguished 76 20,009 58
Gregory Alain Huber Yale Political Science Distinguished 118 19,647 51
Diana C. Mutz Penn Political Science Distinguished 76 19,336 55
Helen V. Milner Princeton Politics Distinguished 112 17,632 61
Edward D. Mansfield Penn Political Science Distinguished 97 17,333 63
Matthew Levendusky Penn Political Science Distinguished 43 16,002 39
Rocío Titiunik Princeton Politics Full 41 15,917 35
Daniel J. Hopkins Penn Political Science Distinguished 68 15,597 46
Andrew Moravcsik Princeton Politics Full 74 15,060 37
Nicholas Sambanis Yale Political Science Distinguished 62 14,762 48
Torben Iversen Harvard Government Distinguished 56 14,241 52
Sean J. Westwood Dartmouth Government Associate 45 14,042 28
Stephen Daniel Ansolabehere Harvard Government Distinguished 79 14,001 42
Andrew M. Guess Princeton Politics Associate 44 13,346 38
Carles Boix Princeton Politics Distinguished 50 12,466 39
James Raymond Vreeland Princeton Politics Full 63 12,222 42
Leonard Wantchekon Princeton Politics Full 58 10,893 34
William C. Wohlforth Dartmouth Government Distinguished 81 10,872 48
Alastair Iain Johnston Harvard Government Research 46 10,644 42
Jennifer Gandhi Yale Political Science Full 20 10,029 23
Markus Prior Princeton Politics Full 25 9,805 26
John Michael Carey Dartmouth Government Distinguished 95 9,692 43
John D. Huber Columbia Political Science Full 35 8,758 33
Jennifer Jerit Dartmouth Government Distinguished 46 8,666 31
Sarah E. Kreps Cornell Government Distinguished 146 8,613 48
Daniel Paul Carpenter Harvard Government Distinguished 137 8,570 44
G. John Ikenberry Princeton Politics Distinguished 98 8,344 42
Jacob S. Hacker Yale Political Science Distinguished 188 7,987 43
Milan Svolik Yale Political Science Distinguished 20 7,774 20
Michael Horowitz Penn Political Science Distinguished 147 7,773 48
Thomas B. Pepinsky Cornell Government Distinguished 139 7,657 43
Nolan McCarty Princeton Politics Distinguished 64 7,620 44
Jack L. Snyder Columbia Political Science Distinguished 65 7,589 33
Paul E. Peterson Harvard Government Distinguished 351 7,448 71
Mark McGann Blyth Brown Political Science Distinguished 108 7,142 45
John Benedict Londregan Princeton Politics Full 32 7,072 25
Nadia Urbinati Columbia Political Science Distinguished 194 7,034 44
Kenneth Roberts Cornell Government Full 88 6,965 49
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