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 Unit

Departments

Citations per academic
1 Dartmouth Government Dartmouth · 28 academics 289
2 Harvard Government Harvard · 41 academics 216
3 Princeton Politics Princeton · 56 academics 199
4 Cornell Government Cornell · 35 academics 194
5 Columbia Political Science Columbia · 40 academics 174
6 Penn Political Science Penn · 37 academics 169
7 Yale Political Science Yale · 42 academics 167
8 Brown Political Science Brown · 30 academics 106

55,415 citations over 1,711 of 2,352 works (73% carry a count). 253 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 Unit Each point

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 Unit Each point

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

Median citations per academic 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.0.0100.0200.0300.0400.0500.0Distinguished Dartmouth Government over 7 academics 134.0Distinguished Harvard Government over 24 academics 76.5Distinguished Yale Political Science over 11 academics 111.0Distinguished Princeton Politics over 13 academics 71.0Distinguished Columbia Political Science over 12 academics 68.0Distinguished Cornell Government over 6 academics 411.0Distinguished Penn Political Science over 15 academics 89.0Distinguished Brown Political Science over 12 academics 34.5Full Dartmouth Government over 9 academics 59.0Full Harvard Government over 3 academics 132.0Full Yale Political Science over 5 academics 31.0Full Princeton Politics over 15 academics 41.0Full Columbia Political Science over 10 academics 8.0Full Cornell Government over 7 academics 191.0Full Penn Political Science over 5 academics 165.0Full Brown Political Science over 3 academics 20.0Associate Dartmouth Government over 9 academics 83.0Associate Harvard Government over 1 academics 135.0Associate Yale Political Science over 7 academics 259.0Associate Princeton Politics over 6 academics 221.5Associate Columbia Political Science over 5 academics 69.0Associate Cornell Government over 10 academics 59.5Associate Penn Political Science over 6 academics 107.0Associate Brown Political Science over 7 academics 50.0Assistant Dartmouth Government over 3 academics 10.0Assistant Harvard Government over 6 academics 112.0Assistant Yale Political Science over 11 academics 104.0Assistant Princeton Politics over 13 academics 183.0Assistant Columbia Political Science over 8 academics 188.5Assistant Cornell Government over 8 academics 42.5Assistant Penn Political Science over 7 academics 18.0Assistant Brown Political Science over 5 academics 54.0Unknown Harvard Government over 6 academics 0.0Unknown Yale Political Science over 7 academics 6.0Unknown Princeton Politics over 9 academics 0.0Unknown Columbia Political Science over 5 academics 0.0Unknown Cornell Government over 4 academics 0.5Unknown Penn Political Science over 3 academics 0.0Unknown Brown Political Science over 3 academics 0.0Other Harvard Government over 1 academics 10.0Other Yale Political Science over 1 academics 10.0Other Penn Political Science over 1 academics 61.0DistinguishedFullAssociateAssistantUnknownOtherMedian citations per academicRank

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.010002000300040001 Dartmouth Government Brendan Nyhan 37871 Harvard Government Kosuke Imai 24641 Yale Political Science Joshua Kalla 15311 Princeton Politics Andrew M. Guess 32711 Columbia Political Science Andrew Gelman 21881 Cornell Government Jamila Michener 11521 Penn Political Science Guy Grossman 9631 Brown Political Science Robert A. Blair 10322 Dartmouth Government Sean J. Westwood 13352 Harvard Government Joshua David Kertzer 12382 Yale Political Science Daniel C. Mattingly 7132 Princeton Politics Arthur Spirling 10152 Columbia Political Science Donald P. Green 6702 Cornell Government Peter John Loewen 9752 Penn Political Science Michael Horowitz 8922 Brown Political Science Donghyun Danny Choi 3483 Dartmouth Government Jeremy Ferwerda 5533 Harvard Government Dustin Tingley 9373 Yale Political Science Shiro Kuriwaki 4603 Princeton Politics Rocío Titiunik 8323 Columbia Political Science John Marshall 6703 Cornell Government Sarah E. Kreps 8893 Penn Political Science Matthew Levendusky 8023 Brown Political Science Jennifer Hadden 3024 Dartmouth Government John Michael Carey 5254 Harvard Government Gary King 4824 Yale Political Science Gregory Alain Huber 4584 Princeton Politics Christopher Blair 6254 Columbia Political Science Yamil Ricardo Velez 6064 Cornell Government Douglas L. Kriner 4854 Penn Political Science Daniel J. Hopkins 6934 Brown Political Science Tyler Jost 2335 Dartmouth Government Yang-Yang Zhou 3085 Harvard Government Paul E. Peterson 4585 Yale Political Science P. M. Aronow 4525 Princeton Politics Guadalupe Tuñón 5175 Columbia Political Science Nikhar Gaikwad 4665 Cornell Government Thomas B. Pepinsky 4705 Penn Political Science Parrish Bergquist 4525 Brown Political Science Reid B. C. Pauly 2196 Dartmouth Government Stephen G. Brooks 2436 Harvard Government Danielle S. Allen 3786 Yale Political Science Ana De La O Torres 3676 Princeton Politics Tali Mendelberg 4716 Columbia Political Science Carlo Prato 4426 Cornell Government Suzanne Mettler 3526 Penn Political Science Sarah Bush 4366 Brown Political Science ROSE McDERMOTT 2127 Dartmouth Government William C. Wohlforth 1887 Harvard Government Steven Levitsky 3517 Yale Political Science Hélène Landemore 3077 Princeton Politics James Raymond Vreeland 3637 Columbia Political Science Allison Carnegie 3267 Cornell Government Talbot M. Andrews 3437 Penn Political Science Beth Simmons 2267 Brown Political Science Jeff D. Colgan 2028 Dartmouth Government Benjamin A. Valentino 1788 Harvard Government Yuhua Wang 3188 Yale Political Science Peter E. Buisseret 2598 Princeton Politics Hye Young You 3558 Columbia Political Science Eunji Kim 3118 Cornell Government Kenneth Roberts 2888 Penn Political Science Erik Wibbels 2128 Brown Political Science Mark McGann Blyth 1289 Dartmouth Government Jason Barabas 1539 Harvard Government Pia J. Raffler 2989 Yale Political Science Nicholas Sambanis 2399 Princeton Politics Leonard Wantchekon 3369 Columbia Political Science Gemma Dipoppa 2619 Cornell Government William R. Hobbs 2729 Penn Political Science Marc Meredith 1929 Brown Political Science Ashutosh Varshney 7610 Dartmouth Government Jason Lyall 13410 Harvard Government Daniel Ziblatt 27810 Yale Political Science Charles T. Mcclean 23610 Princeton Politics Rafaela Dancygier 25210 Columbia Political Science Andreas Wimmer 12110 Cornell Government Sabrina M. Karim 26610 Penn Political Science Daniel M. Smith 17410 Brown Political Science David Skarbek 6811 Dartmouth Government JENNIFER M. LIND 11311 Harvard Government Peter A. Hall 17611 Yale Political Science Luca Bellodi 22111 Princeton Politics Rory Truex 25011 Columbia Political Science Elizabeth Nathan Saunders 12011 Cornell Government Bryn Rosenfeld 24911 Penn Political Science Julia Lynch 16511 Brown Political Science Richard Owen Snyder 6012 Dartmouth Government Kathleen E. Powers 11212 Harvard Government James M. Snyder, Jr. 16612 Yale Political Science GERARD PADRÓ i MIQUEL 20012 Princeton Politics Tanushree Goyal 24312 Columbia Political Science Calvin Thrall 11612 Cornell Government Gustavo A. Flores-Macías 19112 Penn Political Science Michele F. Margolis 12212 Brown Political Science Marques Zárate 5413 Dartmouth Government Jennifer Jerit 11113 Harvard Government Stephen Chaudoin 13513 Yale Political Science Milan Svolik 17213 Princeton Politics Andreas Wiedemann 23113 Columbia Political Science Maria Victoria Murillo 9113 Cornell Government Rachel Beatty Riedl 15713 Penn Political Science Gareth Nellis 11413 Brown Political Science Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro 5014 Dartmouth Government Nicholas L. Miller 8314 Harvard Government Marcel F. Roman 13314 Yale Political Science Melody Huang 15614 Princeton Politics Noah Zucker 21214 Columbia Political Science Timothy M. Frye 8914 Cornell Government Melissa Lee Sands 14014 Penn Political Science Diana C. Mutz 11014 Brown Political Science Eric M. Patashnik 4815 Dartmouth Government Daryl G. Press 7515 Harvard Government Alisha C. Holland 13215 Yale Political Science Kate Baldwin 14015 Princeton Politics Elizabeth R. Nugent 21015 Columbia Political Science Virginia Page Fortna 8815 Cornell Government Oumar Ba 8715 Penn Political Science Jane Esberg 10515 Brown Political Science Aditi Sahasrabuddhe 33123456789101112131415CitationsRank

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 2 academics 8.08.0Associate Harvard Government median of 1 academics 14.014.0Associate Yale Political Science median of 4 academics 9.09.0Associate Princeton Politics median of 6 academics 8.58.5Associate Columbia Political Science median of 3 academics 11.011.0Associate Cornell Government median of 5 academics 9.09.0Associate Penn Political Science median of 3 academics 9.09.0Associate Brown Political Science median of 2 academics 7.57.5Full or distinguished Dartmouth Government median of 2 academics 17.017.0Full or distinguished Harvard Government median of 2 academics 10.510.5Full or distinguished Yale Political Science median of 3 academics 12.012.0Full or distinguished Princeton Politics median of 3 academics 8.08.0Full or distinguished Columbia Political Science median of 2 academics 12.512.5Full or distinguished Cornell Government median of 2 academics 14.514.5Full or distinguished Penn Political Science median of 2 academics 14.014.0Full 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 150150The Journal of PoliticsThe Journal of Politics 104104American Journal of Political ScienceAmerican Journal of Political Science 9292American Political Science ReviewAmerican Political Science Review 7474Perspectives on PoliticsPerspectives on Politics 4747The Irish TimesThe Irish Times 4242Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 4141Comparative Political StudiesComparative Political Studies 3636British Journal of Political ScienceBritish Journal of Political Science 3434International OrganizationInternational Organization 3030International Studies QuarterlyInternational Studies Quarterly 3030Political Science Research and MethodsPolitical Science Research and Methods 2929050100150JournalWorks

The twelve venues highest on this reading, of 498.