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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Harvard Government

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Department

UniversityHarvard
FieldPolitical Science
Academics41

Totals

Publications2,481
Citations346,694
Per academic9,577

Coverage

Works with a count1,850 of 2,481
Share75%

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 2424FullFull 33AssociateAssociate 11AssistantAssistant 66ResearchResearch 11UnknownUnknown 6605101520RankAcademics

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.05101520none Academics 551-4 Academics 115-14 Academics 4415-39 Academics 121240+ Academics 1919none1-45-1415-3940+AcademicsPublications by one academic

Citations per academic

Over the 36 of 41 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 22100-999 Academics 991,000-9,999 Academics 161610,000+ Academics 991-99100-9991,000-9,99910,000+AcademicsCitations of one academic

Who writes with whom 14 pairs

Stephen Daniel AnsolabehereJames M. Snyder, Jr.Kosuke ImaiGary KingDustin TingleyDaniel ZiblattSteven LevitskyStephen ChaudoinJennifer HochschildJoshua David KertzerClaudine GayGrzegorz EkiertPeter A. HallTorben Iversen
Stephen Daniel Ansolabehere 24 · 1 · · · · · · · · · ·
James M. Snyder, Jr. 24 · · · · · · · · · · · ·
Kosuke Imai · · 14 9 · · · · · · · · ·
Gary King 1 · 14 · · · · · · · · 1 1
Dustin Tingley · · 9 · · · 3 · 2 · · · ·
Daniel Ziblatt · · · · · 8 · · · · 1 · ·
Steven Levitsky · · · · · 8 · · · · · · ·
Stephen Chaudoin · · · · 3 · · · · · · · ·
Jennifer Hochschild · · · · · · · · · 1 · · ·
Joshua David Kertzer · · · · 2 · · · · · · · ·
Claudine Gay · · · · · · · · 1 · · · ·
Grzegorz Ekiert · · · · · 1 · · · · · · ·
Peter A. Hall · · · 1 · · · · · · · · ·
Torben Iversen · · · 1 · · · · · · · · ·

68 of the 2,481 selected works are held by two of these academics, making 14 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. 4 more academics collaborate here and did not fit the square.

Roster 41

NameRankPublicationsCitations
Gary KingDistinguished327103,153
Kosuke ImaiFull16158,564
Peter A. HallDistinguished12442,035
Dustin TingleyDistinguished9837,922
James M. Snyder, Jr.Distinguished13927,381
Steven LevitskyDistinguished8523,624
Torben IversenDistinguished5614,241
Stephen Daniel AnsolabehereDistinguished7914,001
Alastair Iain JohnstonResearch4610,644
Daniel Paul CarpenterDistinguished1378,570
Paul E. PetersonDistinguished3517,448
Joshua David KertzerDistinguished525,254
Michael J. HiscoxDistinguished154,269
Daniel ZiblattDistinguished644,117
Elizabeth J. PerryDistinguished1014,061
Theda SkocpolDistinguished1273,561
Ryan D. EnosFull393,151
Jennifer HochschildDistinguished1422,923
Melani CammettDistinguished432,580
Christina L. DavisDistinguished332,354
Claudine GayDistinguished112,058
Alisha C. HollandFull221,943
Yuhua WangDistinguished261,681
Taeku LeeDistinguished471,596
Stephen ChaudoinAssociate261,473
Grzegorz EkiertDistinguished41988
Pia J. RafflerAssistant8695
Danielle S. AllenDistinguished37552
Mashail MalikAssistant8448
Katrina ForresterUnknown20329
Eric NelsonDistinguished18307
Christoph MikulaschekAssistant9296
Marcel F. RomanAssistant15200
Stephanie TernulloAssistant18127
Michael Eric ROSENDistinguished2182
Feyaad AllieAssistant344
Eric BeerbohmUnknown0
Hojung JooUnknown0
Michael SandelUnknown0
Shterna S. FriedmanUnknown0
Timothy ColtonUnknown0

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 346,694.

Top journals

JournalWorksCitations
Education next1402,245
American Political Science Review8534,212
American Journal of Political Science7431,728
Political Analysis5430,642
The Journal of Politics544,588
Perspectives on Politics517,215
PS Political Science & Politics452,119
International Organization327,709
Journal of democracy279,040
British Journal of Political Science276,204
Comparative Political Studies264,623
World Politics2310,592

The 12 venues holding most of these works, of 529. Citations are over the works of that venue carrying a count; a venue with none is a dash.