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 Brown Political Science Brown · 30 academics 1,227.2
2 Columbia Political Science Columbia · 40 academics 1,192.4
3 Dartmouth Government Dartmouth · 28 academics 1,185.7
4 Princeton Politics Princeton · 56 academics 1,184.7
5 Harvard Government Harvard · 41 academics 1,165.4
6 Cornell Government Cornell · 35 academics 823.1
7 Penn Political Science Penn · 37 academics 809.5
8 Yale Political Science Yale · 42 academics 773.8

68,952 citations over 1,859 of 2,551 works (73% carry a count). 255 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.0.0500.01,000.01,500.02,000.0Distinguished Dartmouth Government over 7 academics 1,701.6Distinguished Harvard Government over 24 academics 883.6Distinguished Yale Political Science over 11 academics 427.9Distinguished Princeton Politics over 13 academics 464.9Distinguished Columbia Political Science over 12 academics 917.4Distinguished Cornell Government over 6 academics 789.1Distinguished Penn Political Science over 15 academics 841.9Distinguished Brown Political Science over 12 academics 1,513.3Full Dartmouth Government over 9 academics 190.9Full Harvard Government over 3 academics 1,249.1Full Yale Political Science over 5 academics 730.7Full Princeton Politics over 15 academics 767.1Full Columbia Political Science over 10 academics 148.9Full Cornell Government over 7 academics 857.3Full Penn Political Science over 5 academics 313.2Full Brown Political Science over 3 academics 41.1Associate Dartmouth Government over 9 academics 603.8Associate Harvard Government over 1 academics 93.6Associate Yale Political Science over 7 academics 613.4Associate Princeton Politics over 6 academics 1,364.7Associate Columbia Political Science over 5 academics 445.4Associate Cornell Government over 10 academics 262.6Associate Penn Political Science over 6 academics 238.4Associate Brown Political Science over 7 academics 506.8Assistant Dartmouth Government over 3 academics 148.3Assistant Harvard Government over 6 academics 247.5Assistant Yale Political Science over 11 academics 314.7Assistant Princeton Politics over 13 academics 502.6Assistant Columbia Political Science over 8 academics 513.9Assistant Cornell Government over 8 academics 174.7Assistant Penn Political Science over 7 academics 200.2Assistant Brown Political Science over 5 academics 257.3Unknown Harvard Government over 6 academics 29.2Unknown Yale Political Science over 7 academics 62.7Unknown Princeton Politics over 9 academics 15.9Unknown Columbia Political Science over 5 academics 0.0Unknown Cornell Government over 4 academics 28.2Unknown Penn Political Science over 3 academics 0.0Unknown Brown Political Science over 3 academics 25.9Other Harvard Government over 1 academics 6.9Other Yale Political Science over 1 academics 6.9Other Penn Political Science over 1 academics 42.3DistinguishedFullAssociateAssistantUnknownOtherCitations 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.010002000300040001 Dartmouth Government Brendan Nyhan 37871 Harvard Government Kosuke Imai 24761 Yale Political Science Joshua Kalla 15311 Princeton Politics Andrew M. Guess 32711 Columbia Political Science Andrew Gelman 29501 Cornell Government Jamila Michener 11621 Penn Political Science Matthew Levendusky 10541 Brown Political Science Eric M. Patashnik 34702 Dartmouth Government Sean J. Westwood 13352 Harvard Government Joshua David Kertzer 13022 Yale Political Science Daniel C. Mattingly 7132 Princeton Politics Rocío Titiunik 26672 Columbia Political Science Donald P. Green 6892 Cornell Government Peter John Loewen 9752 Penn Political Science Guy Grossman 9632 Brown Political Science Peter Andreas 25773 Dartmouth Government Jennifer Jerit 10303 Harvard Government Dustin Tingley 10843 Yale Political Science Gregory Alain Huber 4633 Princeton Politics Arthur Spirling 10153 Columbia Political Science John Marshall 6703 Cornell Government Sarah E. Kreps 8913 Penn Political Science Michael Horowitz 8923 Brown Political Science Robert A. Blair 10324 Dartmouth Government Jeremy Ferwerda 5534 Harvard Government Steven Levitsky 6184 Yale Political Science Shiro Kuriwaki 4604 Princeton Politics Christopher Blair 6254 Columbia Political Science Yamil Ricardo Velez 6064 Cornell Government Thomas B. Pepinsky 6614 Penn Political Science Daniel J. Hopkins 7234 Brown Political Science Mark McGann Blyth 4145 Dartmouth Government John Michael Carey 5255 Harvard Government Gary King 6125 Yale Political Science P. M. Aronow 4525 Princeton Politics Guadalupe Tuñón 5175 Columbia Political Science Nikhar Gaikwad 4665 Cornell Government Douglas L. Kriner 4855 Penn Political Science Sarah Bush 4925 Brown Political Science Donghyun Danny Choi 3966 Dartmouth Government Yang-Yang Zhou 3086 Harvard Government Daniel Ziblatt 6036 Yale Political Science Ana De La O Torres 3676 Princeton Politics Tali Mendelberg 4716 Columbia Political Science Carlo Prato 4426 Cornell Government Suzanne Mettler 3716 Penn Political Science Parrish Bergquist 4526 Brown Political Science Jennifer Hadden 3097 Dartmouth Government Stephen G. Brooks 2527 Harvard Government Paul E. Peterson 4827 Yale Political Science Hélène Landemore 3287 Princeton Politics James Raymond Vreeland 3637 Columbia Political Science Allison Carnegie 3347 Cornell Government Talbot M. Andrews 3527 Penn Political Science Daniel M. Smith 2507 Brown Political Science Tyler Jost 2618 Dartmouth Government William C. Wohlforth 2338 Harvard Government Yuhua Wang 4408 Yale Political Science Nicholas Sambanis 2878 Princeton Politics Hye Young You 3598 Columbia Political Science Eunji Kim 3208 Cornell Government Kenneth Roberts 3088 Penn Political Science Beth Simmons 2268 Brown Political Science Reid B. C. Pauly 2259 Dartmouth Government Benjamin A. Valentino 1789 Harvard Government Danielle S. Allen 4109 Yale Political Science Peter E. Buisseret 2599 Princeton Politics Leonard Wantchekon 3369 Columbia Political Science Gemma Dipoppa 2619 Cornell Government Sabrina M. Karim 2729 Penn Political Science Erik Wibbels 2129 Brown Political Science ROSE McDERMOTT 21210 Dartmouth Government Kathleen E. Powers 17210 Harvard Government Pia J. Raffler 29810 Yale Political Science Ian Shapiro 23710 Princeton Politics Rafaela Dancygier 25410 Columbia Political Science Nadia Urbinati 26010 Cornell Government William R. Hobbs 27210 Penn Political Science Marc Meredith 19410 Brown Political Science Jeff D. Colgan 20211 Dartmouth Government Jason Barabas 15311 Harvard Government Peter A. Hall 27911 Yale Political Science Charles T. Mcclean 23611 Princeton Politics Rory Truex 25011 Columbia Political Science Andreas Wimmer 12111 Cornell Government Bryn Rosenfeld 24911 Penn Political Science Julia Lynch 18411 Brown Political Science Ashutosh Varshney 7612 Dartmouth Government Jason Lyall 13412 Harvard Government Stephanie Ternullo 16812 Yale Political Science Luca Bellodi 22112 Princeton Politics Tanushree Goyal 24312 Columbia Political Science Elizabeth Nathan Saunders 12012 Cornell Government Gustavo A. Flores-Macías 22012 Penn Political Science TARIQ THACHIL 15012 Brown Political Science David Skarbek 6813 Dartmouth Government JENNIFER M. LIND 11813 Harvard Government James M. Snyder, Jr. 16613 Yale Political Science Jacob S. Hacker 21313 Princeton Politics Andreas Wiedemann 23113 Columbia Political Science Calvin Thrall 11613 Cornell Government Rachel Beatty Riedl 15713 Penn Political Science Michele F. Margolis 12213 Brown Political Science Richard Owen Snyder 6014 Dartmouth Government Nicholas L. Miller 8314 Harvard Government Stephen Chaudoin 13514 Yale Political Science GERARD PADRÓ i MIQUEL 20014 Princeton Politics Noah Zucker 21214 Columbia Political Science Sarah Zukerman Daly 11214 Cornell Government Melissa Lee Sands 14014 Penn Political Science Gareth Nellis 11414 Brown Political Science Juliet Hooker 5615 Dartmouth Government Daryl G. Press 7515 Harvard Government Marcel F. Roman 13315 Yale Political Science Milan Svolik 17215 Princeton Politics Elizabeth R. Nugent 21015 Columbia Political Science Maria Victoria Murillo 9415 Cornell Government Oumar Ba 8815 Penn Political Science Diana C. Mutz 11015 Brown Political Science Marques Zárate 54123456789101112131415CitationsRank

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 3030Cambridge University Press eBooksCambridge University Press eBooks 2929050100150JournalWorks

The twelve venues highest on this reading, of 507.