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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Cornell Government

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Department

UniversityCornell
FieldPolitical Science
Academics35

Totals

Publications376
Citations6,491
Per academic203

Coverage

Works with a count271 of 376
Share72%

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 66FullFull 77AssociateAssociate 1010AssistantAssistant 88UnknownUnknown 440246810RankAcademics

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.051015none Academics 331-4 Academics 995-14 Academics 131315-39 Academics 7740+ Academics 33none1-45-1415-3940+AcademicsPublications by one academic

Citations per academic

Over the 31 of 35 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 1717100-999 Academics 13131,000-9,999 Academics 111-99100-9991,000-9,999AcademicsCitations of one academic

Who writes with whom 12 pairs

Douglas L. KrinerSarah E. KrepsKenneth RobertsThomas B. PepinskyJamila MichenerSuzanne MettlerGustavo A. Flores-MacíasRachel Beatty RiedlDaniel N.j. de KadtMelissa Lee SandsPeter K. Enns
Douglas L. Kriner 10 · · · · 1 · · · 1
Sarah E. Kreps 10 · · · · 1 · · · ·
Kenneth Roberts · · 2 1 1 · 2 · · ·
Thomas B. Pepinsky · · 2 2 1 · · · · ·
Jamila Michener · · 1 2 1 · · · · ·
Suzanne Mettler · · 1 1 1 · · · · ·
Gustavo A. Flores-Macías 1 1 · · · · · · · ·
Rachel Beatty Riedl · · 2 · · · · · · ·
Daniel N.j. de Kadt · · · · · · · · 1 ·
Melissa Lee Sands · · · · · · · · 1 ·
Peter K. Enns 1 · · · · · · · · ·

17 of the 376 selected works are held by two of these academics, making 12 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 35

NameRankPublicationsCitations
Jamila MichenerFull401,162
Peter John LoewenFull41975
Sarah E. KrepsDistinguished44891
Thomas B. PepinskyDistinguished36661
Douglas L. KrinerDistinguished19485
Suzanne MettlerDistinguished13371
Talbot M. AndrewsAssistant25352
Kenneth RobertsFull16308
Sabrina M. KarimAssociate17272
William R. HobbsAssociate9272
Bryn RosenfeldAssociate8249
Gustavo A. Flores-MacíasFull10220
Rachel Beatty RiedlFull11157
Melissa Lee SandsAssociate7140
Oumar BaAssistant1688
Diana FuAssociate681
Begüm AdaletUnknown769
Averell SchmidtAssistant365
Peter K. EnnsFull1664
Dillon LaakerAssistant152
Daniel N.j. de KadtAssociate338
David Alexander BatemanAssociate536
Isabel María PereraAssistant1335
Amanda WeissAssistant333
Richard F. BenselDistinguished517
Sarah F. ThompsonAssistant19
Peter Joachim KatzensteinDistinguished98
Alexander LivingstonAssociate85
Katherine IrajpanahAssistant12
patchen markellAssociate12
Christopher Robert WayUnknown11
Alexandra BlackmanUnknown0
Allen R. CarlsonAssociate1
Jason FrankFull0
Kennia CoronadoUnknown0

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 6,491.

Top journals

JournalWorksCitations
American Political Science Review12220
Perspectives on Politics8314
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science8303
Annual Review of Political Science6311
Cambridge University Press eBooks676
Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law667
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences5223
PLoS ONE5175
Political Psychology5135
Public Opinion Quarterly596
Political Behavior583
PS Political Science & Politics538

The 12 venues holding most of these works, of 168. Citations are over the works of that venue carrying a count; a venue with none is a dash.