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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Dartmouth Government

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Department

UniversityDartmouth
FieldPolitical Science
Academics28

Totals

Publications466
Citations49,127
Per academic1,819

Coverage

Works with a count363 of 466
Share78%

Publications over time

Every selected work, by the year it was published. An undated work is in no year, and a year the department published in none of is a gap rather than a measured zero.

Citations over time

Citations received in each year, from the academics’ verified Scholar profiles, which count every citation to everything they wrote: no publication filter reaches this line, and no journal weight either.

Makeup by rank

The current rank of every academic the filters keep (definitions section 7). A rank is current as of the CV, so no year window or kind moves it.

Series: value.DistinguishedDistinguished 77FullFull 99AssociateAssociate 99AssistantAssistant 3302468RankAcademics

Publications per academic

How the works are spread across the academics who wrote them. Publishing nothing under these filters is a real zero and is in the first band.

Series: Academics.0510151-4 Academics 225-14 Academics 131315-39 Academics 121240+ Academics 111-45-1415-3940+AcademicsPublications by one academic

Citations per academic

Over the 28 of 28 academics with at least one counted work. An academic none of whose works carries a count is unknown and is in no band, never in the first one.

Series: Academics.0246810121-99 Academics 99100-999 Academics 12121,000-9,999 Academics 6610,000+ Academics 111-99100-9991,000-9,99910,000+AcademicsCitations of one academic

Who writes with whom 9 pairs

JENNIFER M. LINDBrendan NyhanDaryl G. PressJohn Michael CareyStephen G. BrooksJason BarabasJennifer JeritDeborah Jordan BrooksWilliam C. WohlforthKathleen E. PowersJason LyallYang-Yang Zhou
JENNIFER M. LIND · 8 · · · · · 2 · · ·
Brendan Nyhan · · 8 · · · · · · · ·
Daryl G. Press 8 · · · · · · · · · ·
John Michael Carey · 8 · · · · · · · · ·
Stephen G. Brooks · · · · · · 3 1 1 · ·
Jason Barabas · · · · · 5 · · · · ·
Jennifer Jerit · · · · · 5 · · · · ·
Deborah Jordan Brooks · · · · 3 · · · 1 · ·
William C. Wohlforth 2 · · · 1 · · · · · ·
Kathleen E. Powers · · · · 1 · · 1 · · ·
Jason Lyall · · · · · · · · · · 2
Yang-Yang Zhou · · · · · · · · · · 2

29 of the 466 selected works are held by two of these academics, making 9 pairs - a work three of them share is three pairs, so the two figures are different quantities and neither is a sum of the other. Only collaborations inside this department are here: a work written with somebody anywhere else is counted everywhere on this page and cannot be paired.

Roster 28

NameRankPublicationsCitations
Brendan NyhanDistinguished7427,681
Sean J. WestwoodAssociate388,360
Benjamin A. ValentinoFull232,001
Jeremy FerwerdaAssociate181,967
Jennifer JeritDistinguished161,788
William C. WohlforthDistinguished251,158
John Michael CareyDistinguished321,108
Daryl G. PressFull20839
Mia CostaAssociate23740
Yang-Yang ZhouAssistant12684
Jason BarabasFull9681
Stephen G. BrooksFull18671
Jason LyallDistinguished9660
JENNIFER M. LINDAssociate25555
Jeffrey A. FriedmanFull22382
Russell MuirheadDistinguished14341
Deborah Jordan BrooksAssociate6317
Nicholas L. MillerAssociate33282
Kathleen E. PowersAssociate13238
Akshay Govind DixitAssistant495
Julie L. RoseAssociate885
Dean LacyFull378
Lucas SwaineFull565
James Bernard MurphyFull1454
Sonu BediDistinguished551
Michelle T. ClarkeAssociate1043
Lisa BaldezFull812
Keidrick J. RoyAssistant93

Citations are over each academic’s own selected works that carry a count; an academic with none of those is a dash, never a zero. A work two of them wrote is in both rows, which is why the column does not sum to the department’s 49,127.

Top journals

JournalWorksCitations
Foreign Affairs23546
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences173,149
International Security151,314
American Journal of Political Science132,629
Political Behavior132,198
The Monkey Cage135
The Journal of Politics111,194
Journal of Experimental Political Science10683
PNAS Nexus10104
The Washington Post98
Science810,746
Research & Politics8130

The 12 venues holding most of these works, of 152. Citations are over the works of that venue carrying a count; a venue with none is a dash.