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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Harvard Government

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Department

UniversityHarvard
FieldPolitical Science
Academics41

Totals

Publications840
Citations61,255
Per academic1,608

Coverage

Works with a count639 of 840
Share76%

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 2424FullFull 33AssociateAssociate 11AssistantAssistant 66ResearchResearch 11UnknownUnknown 6605101520RankAcademics

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.05101520none Academics 661-4 Academics 335-14 Academics 8815-39 Academics 171740+ Academics 77none1-45-1415-3940+AcademicsPublications by one academic

Citations per academic

Over the 35 of 41 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.051015201-99 Academics 55100-999 Academics 17171,000-9,999 Academics 101010,000+ Academics 331-99100-9991,000-9,99910,000+AcademicsCitations of one academic

Who writes with whom 9 pairs

Steven LevitskyDaniel ZiblattDustin TingleyKosuke ImaiJoshua David KertzerStephen ChaudoinAlisha C. HollandElizabeth J. PerryGary KingGrzegorz EkiertJennifer HochschildMarcel F. RomanMashail MalikRyan D. Enos
Steven Levitsky 9 · · · · 1 · · · · · · ·
Daniel Ziblatt 9 · · · · · · · · · · · ·
Dustin Tingley · · 2 2 2 · · · · · · · ·
Kosuke Imai · · 2 · · · · 1 · · · · ·
Joshua David Kertzer · · 2 · · · · · · · · · ·
Stephen Chaudoin · · 2 · · · · · · · · · ·
Alisha C. Holland 1 · · · · · · · · · · · ·
Elizabeth J. Perry · · · · · · · · 1 · · · ·
Gary King · · · 1 · · · · · · · · ·
Grzegorz Ekiert · · · · · · · 1 · · · · ·
Jennifer Hochschild · · · · · · · · · · · · 1
Marcel F. Roman · · · · · · · · · · · 1 ·
Mashail Malik · · · · · · · · · · · 1 ·
Ryan D. Enos · · · · · · · · · · 1 · ·

20 of the 840 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 41

NameRankPublicationsCitations
Kosuke ImaiFull8110,987
Dustin TingleyDistinguished4810,218
Steven LevitskyDistinguished4310,045
Gary KingDistinguished838,796
Joshua David KertzerDistinguished383,551
Peter A. HallDistinguished282,908
Daniel ZiblattDistinguished452,185
Ryan D. EnosFull282,026
Elizabeth J. PerryDistinguished231,754
Paul E. PetersonDistinguished891,596
Torben IversenDistinguished161,477
Alisha C. HollandFull171,204
James M. Snyder, Jr.Distinguished191,065
Yuhua WangDistinguished19918
Alastair Iain JohnstonResearch13857
Melani CammettDistinguished16712
Christina L. DavisDistinguished18699
Daniel Paul CarpenterDistinguished45695
Pia J. RafflerAssistant8695
Katrina ForresterUnknown12619
Stephen ChaudoinAssociate18492
Mashail MalikAssistant8448
Danielle S. AllenDistinguished22445
Taeku LeeDistinguished19298
Christoph MikulaschekAssistant5271
Grzegorz EkiertDistinguished5206
Marcel F. RomanAssistant15200
Stephanie TernulloAssistant19168
Theda SkocpolDistinguished17132
Stephen Daniel AnsolabehereDistinguished3127
Jennifer HochschildDistinguished2264
Feyaad AllieAssistant344
Eric NelsonDistinguished818
Claudine GayDistinguished18
Michael Eric ROSENDistinguished62
Eric BeerbohmUnknown0
Hojung JooUnknown0
Michael J. HiscoxDistinguished0
Michael SandelUnknown0
Shterna S. FriedmanUnknown0
Timothy ColtonUnknown0

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 61,255.

Top journals

JournalWorksCitations
Education next39963
The Journal of Politics261,317
American Journal of Political Science234,312
American Political Science Review193,500
Political Analysis184,882
Perspectives on Politics18409
International Organization161,230
Comparative Political Studies141,337
Journal of Conflict Resolution14732
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences14685
Journal of democracy12345
British Journal of Political Science111,103

The 12 venues holding most of these works, of 246. Citations are over the works of that venue carrying a count; a venue with none is a dash.