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
Value Statistic

Departments

Citations by mean * log(1 + people)
1 Columbia Political Science Columbia · 40 academics 8,099.0
2 Harvard Government Harvard · 41 academics 7,040.7
3 Dartmouth Government Dartmouth · 28 academics 6,126.0
4 Penn Political Science Penn · 37 academics 4,903.6
5 Princeton Politics Princeton · 56 academics 4,707.4
6 Cornell Government Cornell · 35 academics 3,776.3
7 Yale Political Science Yale · 42 academics 3,293.9
8 Brown Political Science Brown · 30 academics 2,388.4

360,335 citations over 4,029 of 5,578 works (72% carry a count). 273 of 309 academics have at least one counted work. A work with no citation count is unknown here, never a zero.

Publications over time

Works published in each year
Statistic

Dartmouth GovernmentHarvard GovernmentYale Political SciencePrinceton PoliticsColumbia Political ScienceCornell GovernmentPenn Political ScienceBrown Political Science

Every selected work, by the year it was published. An undated work is in no year.

Citations over time

Citations received in each year
Value Statistic

Dartmouth GovernmentHarvard GovernmentYale Political SciencePrinceton PoliticsColumbia Political ScienceCornell GovernmentPenn Political ScienceBrown Political Science

Citations received in each year, from the academics’ verified Scholar profiles.

Makeup by rank

Academics at each rank
Series: Distinguished, Full, Associate, Assistant, Research, Postdoc, Unknown.0102030405060Dartmouth Government Distinguished 7Dartmouth Government Full 9Dartmouth Government Associate 9Dartmouth Government Assistant 328Harvard Government Distinguished 24Harvard Government Full 3Harvard Government Associate 1Harvard Government Assistant 6Harvard Government Research 1Harvard Government Unknown 641Yale Political Science Distinguished 11Yale Political Science Full 5Yale Political Science Associate 7Yale Political Science Assistant 11Yale Political Science Postdoc 1Yale Political Science Unknown 742Princeton Politics Distinguished 13Princeton Politics Full 15Princeton Politics Associate 6Princeton Politics Assistant 13Princeton Politics Unknown 956Columbia Political Science Distinguished 12Columbia Political Science Full 10Columbia Political Science Associate 5Columbia Political Science Assistant 8Columbia Political Science Unknown 540Cornell Government Distinguished 6Cornell Government Full 7Cornell Government Associate 10Cornell Government Assistant 8Cornell Government Unknown 435Penn Political Science Distinguished 15Penn Political Science Full 5Penn Political Science Associate 6Penn Political Science Assistant 7Penn Political Science Postdoc 1Penn Political Science Unknown 337Brown Political Science Distinguished 12Brown Political Science Full 3Brown Political Science Associate 7Brown Political Science Assistant 5Brown Political Science Unknown 330Dartmouth GovernmentYale Political ScienceColumbia Political ScienceBrown Political ScienceAcademicsDepartment

DistinguishedFullAssociateAssistantResearchPostdocUnknown

The current rank of every academic the filters keep (definitions section 7).

Output by rank

Citations by mean * log(1 + people) at each rank
Value Statistic
Series: Dartmouth Government, Harvard Government, Yale Political Science, Princeton Politics, Columbia Political Science, Cornell Government, Penn Political Science, Brown Political Science.0.05,000.010,000.015,000.0Distinguished Dartmouth Government over 7 academics 9,739.8Distinguished Harvard Government over 24 academics 6,426.9Distinguished Yale Political Science over 11 academics 3,587.1Distinguished Princeton Politics over 13 academics 2,571.7Distinguished Columbia Political Science over 12 academics 12,631.1Distinguished Cornell Government over 6 academics 4,939.7Distinguished Penn Political Science over 15 academics 5,997.5Distinguished Brown Political Science over 12 academics 2,399.9Full Dartmouth Government over 9 academics 1,223.7Full Harvard Government over 3 academics 6,569.6Full Yale Political Science over 5 academics 2,370.1Full Princeton Politics over 15 academics 2,554.7Full Columbia Political Science over 10 academics 1,033.7Full Cornell Government over 7 academics 3,224.3Full Penn Political Science over 5 academics 1,429.8Full Brown Political Science over 3 academics 147.9Associate Dartmouth Government over 9 academics 3,220.3Associate Harvard Government over 1 academics 341.0Associate Yale Political Science over 7 academics 1,895.9Associate Princeton Politics over 6 academics 6,951.4Associate Columbia Political Science over 5 academics 1,277.9Associate Cornell Government over 10 academics 1,567.0Associate Penn Political Science over 6 academics 1,641.4Associate Brown Political Science over 7 academics 1,607.1Assistant Dartmouth Government over 3 academics 361.4Assistant Harvard Government over 6 academics 592.2Assistant Yale Political Science over 11 academics 738.0Assistant Princeton Politics over 13 academics 873.1Assistant Columbia Political Science over 8 academics 1,363.1Assistant Cornell Government over 8 academics 519.1Assistant Penn Political Science over 7 academics 720.7Assistant Brown Political Science over 5 academics 416.8Unknown Harvard Government over 6 academics 200.8Unknown Yale Political Science over 7 academics 330.3Unknown Princeton Politics over 9 academics 341.6Unknown Columbia Political Science over 5 academics 12.9Unknown Cornell Government over 4 academics 106.6Unknown Penn Political Science over 3 academics 0.0Unknown Brown Political Science over 3 academics 304.1Other Harvard Government over 1 academics 594.0Other Yale Political Science over 1 academics 17.3Other Penn Political Science over 1 academics 388.9DistinguishedFullAssociateAssistantUnknownOtherCitations by mean * log(1 + people)Rank

Dartmouth GovernmentHarvard GovernmentYale Political SciencePrinceton PoliticsColumbia Political ScienceCornell GovernmentPenn Political ScienceBrown Political Science

Each rank read on its own, so a department of thirty and one of sixty are comparable at the same career stage.

Academics ranked against academics

Each department's rank-n academic, citations
Value Ranks
Series: Dartmouth Government, Harvard Government, Yale Political Science, Princeton Politics, Columbia Political Science, Cornell Government, Penn Political Science, Brown Political Science.010000200003000040000500001 Dartmouth Government Brendan Nyhan 276811 Harvard Government Kosuke Imai 109871 Yale Political Science Joshua Kalla 35771 Princeton Politics Andrew M. Guess 131111 Columbia Political Science Andrew Gelman 437601 Cornell Government Sarah E. Kreps 57911 Penn Political Science Matthew Levendusky 108761 Brown Political Science Eric M. Patashnik 37162 Dartmouth Government Sean J. Westwood 83602 Harvard Government Dustin Tingley 102182 Yale Political Science Gregory Alain Huber 34652 Princeton Politics Rocío Titiunik 67402 Columbia Political Science Donald P. Green 99422 Cornell Government Thomas B. Pepinsky 49062 Penn Political Science Guy Grossman 37532 Brown Political Science Robert A. Blair 32603 Dartmouth Government Benjamin A. Valentino 20013 Harvard Government Steven Levitsky 100453 Yale Political Science Milan Svolik 30713 Princeton Politics Jonathan Mummolo 51353 Columbia Political Science John Marshall 21123 Cornell Government Peter John Loewen 46753 Penn Political Science Daniel J. Hopkins 36993 Brown Political Science Peter Andreas 26994 Dartmouth Government Jeremy Ferwerda 19674 Harvard Government Gary King 87964 Yale Political Science Alan S. Gerber 30104 Princeton Politics Helen V. Milner 36204 Columbia Political Science Nadia Urbinati 20664 Cornell Government Douglas L. Kriner 29054 Penn Political Science Michael Horowitz 32714 Brown Political Science Jeff D. Colgan 18825 Dartmouth Government Jennifer Jerit 17885 Harvard Government Joshua David Kertzer 35515 Yale Political Science P. M. Aronow 23445 Princeton Politics Arthur Spirling 24985 Columbia Political Science Maria Victoria Murillo 13205 Cornell Government Jamila Michener 25355 Penn Political Science Diana C. Mutz 30945 Brown Political Science Mark McGann Blyth 12186 Dartmouth Government William C. Wohlforth 11586 Harvard Government Peter A. Hall 29086 Yale Political Science Jacob S. Hacker 22746 Princeton Politics Frances E. Lee 18336 Columbia Political Science Junyan Jiang 12986 Cornell Government Suzanne Mettler 14256 Penn Political Science Beth Simmons 20326 Brown Political Science Jennifer Hadden 8647 Dartmouth Government John Michael Carey 11087 Harvard Government Daniel Ziblatt 21857 Yale Political Science Hélène Landemore 20117 Princeton Politics G. John Ikenberry 17167 Columbia Political Science Allison Carnegie 12627 Cornell Government Sabrina M. Karim 14127 Penn Political Science Daniel M. Smith 16517 Brown Political Science Juliet Hooker 6588 Dartmouth Government Daryl G. Press 8398 Harvard Government Ryan D. Enos 20268 Yale Political Science Elisabeth Jean Wood 14278 Princeton Politics Hye Young You 14518 Columbia Political Science Nikhar Gaikwad 10378 Cornell Government Kenneth Roberts 12608 Penn Political Science Parrish Bergquist 16418 Brown Political Science Donghyun Danny Choi 5809 Dartmouth Government Mia Costa 7409 Harvard Government Elizabeth J. Perry 17549 Yale Political Science Adam Michael Auerbach 13279 Princeton Politics Rory Truex 13509 Columbia Political Science Elizabeth Nathan Saunders 10099 Cornell Government Diana Fu 10839 Penn Political Science Sarah Bush 13249 Brown Political Science ROSE McDERMOTT 55010 Dartmouth Government Yang-Yang Zhou 68410 Harvard Government Paul E. Peterson 159610 Yale Political Science Daniel C. Mattingly 130410 Princeton Politics Nolan McCarty 121210 Columbia Political Science Timothy M. Frye 100310 Cornell Government Melissa Lee Sands 89710 Penn Political Science Julia Lynch 125310 Brown Political Science Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro 49011 Dartmouth Government Jason Barabas 68111 Harvard Government Torben Iversen 147711 Yale Political Science Nicholas Sambanis 127211 Princeton Politics Rafaela Dancygier 107411 Columbia Political Science Eunji Kim 99611 Cornell Government William R. Hobbs 88911 Penn Political Science Edward D. Mansfield 120711 Brown Political Science David Skarbek 46912 Dartmouth Government Stephen G. Brooks 67112 Harvard Government Alisha C. Holland 120412 Yale Political Science Shiro Kuriwaki 114212 Princeton Politics Layna Mosley 91412 Columbia Political Science Yamil Ricardo Velez 83812 Cornell Government Gustavo A. Flores-Macías 88612 Penn Political Science Michele F. Margolis 112512 Brown Political Science Reid B. C. Pauly 37013 Dartmouth Government Jason Lyall 66013 Harvard Government James M. Snyder, Jr. 106513 Yale Political Science Ian Shapiro 73513 Princeton Politics Leonard Wantchekon 80813 Columbia Political Science Andreas Wimmer 81013 Cornell Government Peter K. Enns 84813 Penn Political Science Marc Meredith 109213 Brown Political Science Wendy J. Schiller 36114 Dartmouth Government JENNIFER M. LIND 55514 Harvard Government Yuhua Wang 91814 Yale Political Science Isabela Mares 61814 Princeton Politics James Raymond Vreeland 80014 Columbia Political Science Carlo Prato 75314 Cornell Government Talbot M. Andrews 82514 Penn Political Science Amy Gutmann 101514 Brown Political Science Tyler Jost 26115 Dartmouth Government Jeffrey A. Friedman 38215 Harvard Government Alastair Iain Johnston 85715 Yale Political Science Peter E. Buisseret 50115 Princeton Politics Elizabeth R. Nugent 77915 Columbia Political Science Andrew J. Nathan 66115 Cornell Government Bryn Rosenfeld 77415 Penn Political Science Gareth Nellis 94415 Brown Political Science Alexander Hirschman Gourevitch 252123456789101112131415CitationsRank

Dartmouth GovernmentHarvard GovernmentYale Political SciencePrinceton PoliticsColumbia Political ScienceCornell GovernmentPenn Political ScienceBrown Political Science

Rank 15 of 56 at the deepest; 8 of 8 departments still have somebody at the last rank drawn. Rank n of one department is not otherwise related to rank n of another - what this compares is the shape of the lists.

Years to promotion

From the PhD to each rank
Series: Dartmouth Government, Harvard Government, Yale Political Science, Princeton Politics, Columbia Political Science, Cornell Government, Penn Political Science, Brown Political Science.0.05.010.015.020.0Associate Dartmouth Government median of 6 academics 7.07.0Associate Harvard Government median of 4 academics 6.56.5Associate Yale Political Science median of 7 academics 8.08.0Associate Princeton Politics median of 7 academics 8.08.0Associate Columbia Political Science median of 4 academics 9.09.0Associate Cornell Government median of 8 academics 9.09.0Associate Penn Political Science median of 7 academics 7.07.0Associate Brown Political Science median of 6 academics 7.57.5Full or distinguished Dartmouth Government median of 7 academics 16.016.0Full or distinguished Harvard Government median of 3 academics 10.010.0Full or distinguished Yale Political Science median of 5 academics 12.012.0Full or distinguished Princeton Politics median of 10 academics 12.512.5Full or distinguished Columbia Political Science median of 3 academics 16.016.0Full or distinguished Cornell Government median of 8 academics 12.012.0Full or distinguished Penn Political Science median of 12 academics 11.511.5Full or distinguished Brown Political Science median of 3 academics 13.013.0AssociateFull or distinguishedYears since the PhDRank reached

Dartmouth GovernmentHarvard GovernmentYale Political SciencePrinceton PoliticsColumbia Political ScienceCornell GovernmentPenn Political ScienceBrown Political Science

The median years from the PhD year a CV states to the first year it states that rank. An academic whose CV dates neither is in neither figure.

Journals used

Where these departments place work, by works
Value
Series: value.Foreign AffairsForeign Affairs 367367The Journal of PoliticsThe Journal of Politics 198198American Journal of Political ScienceAmerican Journal of Political Science 150150American Political Science ReviewAmerican Political Science Review 119119Perspectives on PoliticsPerspectives on Politics 117117Comparative Political StudiesComparative Political Studies 8282Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 7474International OrganizationInternational Organization 7474British Journal of Political ScienceBritish Journal of Political Science 6969The Monkey CageThe Monkey Cage 6161Cambridge University Press eBooksCambridge University Press eBooks 6060Political BehaviorPolitical Behavior 53530100200300JournalWorks

The twelve venues highest on this reading, of 812.