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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Dartmouth Government

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Department

UniversityDartmouth
FieldPolitical Science
Academics28

Totals

Publications983
Citations128,758
Per academic1,290.0

Coverage

Works with a count766 of 983
Share78%

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 77FullFull 99AssociateAssociate 99AssistantAssistant 3302468RankAcademics

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.0246810121-4 Academics 115-14 Academics 5515-39 Academics 111140+ Academics 11111-45-1415-3940+AcademicsPublications by one academic

Citations per academic

Over the 28 of 28 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.0510151-99 Academics 22100-999 Academics 991,000-9,999 Academics 131310,000+ Academics 441-99100-9991,000-9,99910,000+AcademicsCitations of one academic

Who writes with whom 15 pairs

Stephen G. BrooksWilliam C. WohlforthJason BarabasJennifer JeritDaryl G. PressJENNIFER M. LINDJohn Michael CareyBrendan NyhanBenjamin A. ValentinoDeborah Jordan BrooksJason LyallYang-Yang ZhouJeremy FerwerdaNicholas L. Miller
Stephen G. Brooks 27 · · · · · · · 3 · · · ·
William C. Wohlforth 27 · · · 2 · · · · · · · ·
Jason Barabas · · 16 · · · · · · · · · ·
Jennifer Jerit · · 16 · · · · · · · · · ·
Daryl G. Press · · · · 10 · · 3 · · · · ·
JENNIFER M. LIND · 2 · · 10 · · · · · · · ·
John Michael Carey · · · · · · 9 1 · · · · ·
Brendan Nyhan · · · · · · 9 1 · · · · ·
Benjamin A. Valentino · · · · 3 · 1 1 1 · · · ·
Deborah Jordan Brooks 3 · · · · · · · 1 · · · ·
Jason Lyall · · · · · · · · · · 2 · ·
Yang-Yang Zhou · · · · · · · · · · 2 · ·
Jeremy Ferwerda · · · · · · · · · · · · 1
Nicholas L. Miller · · · · · · · · · · · · 1

75 of the 983 selected works are held by two of these academics, making 15 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. 2 more academics collaborate here and did not fit the square.

Roster 28

NameRankPublicationsCitations
Brendan NyhanDistinguished10038,368
John Michael CareyDistinguished10218,632
William C. WohlforthDistinguished10215,015
Sean J. WestwoodAssociate4714,347
Jennifer JeritDistinguished479,585
Stephen G. BrooksFull587,947
Jason BarabasFull285,320
Benjamin A. ValentinoFull464,929
Jason LyallDistinguished204,156
Daryl G. PressFull644,095
JENNIFER M. LINDAssociate562,593
Lisa BaldezFull372,289
Jeremy FerwerdaAssociate202,137
Deborah Jordan BrooksAssociate131,399
Jeffrey A. FriedmanFull341,181
Nicholas L. MillerAssociate451,107
Dean LacyFull191,106
Yang-Yang ZhouAssistant14984
James Bernard MurphyFull52978
Russell MuirheadDistinguished25820
Mia CostaAssociate26776
Kathleen E. PowersAssociate14771
Lucas SwaineFull30634
Sonu BediDistinguished19556
Julie L. RoseAssociate13348
Michelle T. ClarkeAssociate16165
Akshay Govind DixitAssistant495
Keidrick J. RoyAssistant93

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 128,758.

Top journals

JournalWorksCitations
International Security5410,149
Foreign Affairs472,519
American Journal of Political Science2911,477
The Journal of Politics276,175
The Washington Post208
The Monkey Cage1930
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences173,149
Political Behavior157,337
Public Opinion Quarterly151,121
Security Studies14944
American Political Science Review134,283
Journal of Experimental Political Science131,312

The 12 venues holding most of these works, of 250. Citations are over the works of that venue carrying a count; a venue with none is a dash.