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

Every graph on this site

Publications

  • Ranking Ranked table
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work
  • Works published per year Lines over years
    • Measure: Total, Mean per academic, Median per academic
    • Calendar year or years since PhD
    • In each year or cumulative
  • Citations received per year Lines over years
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work, Mean per academic, Median per academic
    • In each year or cumulative
  • Citation distribution Bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations
  • Citations by age of work Lines over years
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work
  • Publication type mix Ranked bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
  • Top venues Ranked bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications

Academics

Departmentshere

  • Ranking Ranked table
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work, Mean per academic, Median per academic, Formula
  • Publications over time Lines over years
    • Measure: Total, Mean per academic, Median per academic, Formula
    • Calendar year or years since PhD
    • In each year or cumulative
  • Citations over time Lines over years
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations
    • Measure: Total, Mean per academic, Median per academic, Formula
    • In each year or cumulative
  • Makeup by tenure track Stacked bars
  • Output by rank Grouped bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work, Mean per academic, Median per academic, Formula
  • Academics ranked against academics Grouped bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
    • How many ranks (opens on 5)
  • Years to promotion Grouped bars
  • Journals used Stacked bars
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications

Journals

Fields

  • Ranking Ranked table
    • Value: Citations, Weighted citations, Publications
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work, Mean per academic, Median per academic
  • Departments by field Bars
    • Measure: Total, Mean per work, Median per work, Mean per academic, Median per academic
  • University rollup Ranked bars
  • Coverage by field Ranked bars

Trackademia

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Search a person, a department, a journal or the title of a work. A person’s name brings up their profile, their publications, their department and the journals they publish in.

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Harvard Government

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Department

UniversityHarvard
FieldPolitical Science
Academics24

Totals

Publications2,458
Citations410,756
Per academic17,553

Coverage

Works with a count1,828 of 2,458
Share74%

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 publication type moves it.

Series: value.DistinguishedDistinguished 242405101520RankAcademics

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.051015205-14 Academics 1115-39 Academics 5540+ Academics 18185-1415-3940+AcademicsPublications by one academic

Citations per academic

Over the 24 of 24 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.024681012100-999 Academics 221,000-9,999 Academics 111110,000+ Academics 1111100-9991,000-9,99910,000+AcademicsCitations of one academic

Who writes with whom 9 pairs

Stephen Daniel AnsolabehereJames M. Snyder, Jr.Daniel ZiblattSteven LevitskyGary KingGrzegorz EkiertClaudine GayDustin TingleyJennifer HochschildJoshua David KertzerElizabeth J. PerryPeter A. HallTorben Iversen
Stephen Daniel Ansolabehere 25 · · 1 · · · · · · · ·
James M. Snyder, Jr. 25 · · · · · · · · · · ·
Daniel Ziblatt · · 10 · 1 · · · · · · ·
Steven Levitsky · · 10 · · · · · · · · ·
Gary King 1 · · · · · · · · · 1 1
Grzegorz Ekiert · · 1 · · · · · · 1 · ·
Claudine Gay · · · · · · · 2 · · · ·
Dustin Tingley · · · · · · · · 2 · · ·
Jennifer Hochschild · · · · · · 2 · · · · ·
Joshua David Kertzer · · · · · · · 2 · · · ·
Elizabeth J. Perry · · · · · 1 · · · · · ·
Peter A. Hall · · · · 1 · · · · · · ·
Torben Iversen · · · · 1 · · · · · · ·

44 of the 2,458 selected works are held by two of these academics, making 9 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 24

NameRankPublicationsCitations
Gary KingDistinguished356122,507
Peter A. HallDistinguished15458,875
Dustin TingleyDistinguished10138,589
Steven LevitskyDistinguished10738,219
James M. Snyder, Jr.Distinguished14227,734
Paul E. PetersonDistinguished41919,853
Torben IversenDistinguished6717,530
Theda SkocpolDistinguished15115,616
Stephen Daniel AnsolabehereDistinguished8414,514
Daniel Paul CarpenterDistinguished14213,814
Elizabeth J. PerryDistinguished13911,008
Jennifer HochschildDistinguished1607,644
Daniel ZiblattDistinguished725,675
Joshua David KertzerDistinguished555,612
Michael J. HiscoxDistinguished164,511
Melani CammettDistinguished514,243
Taeku LeeDistinguished563,297
Christina L. DavisDistinguished393,058
Claudine GayDistinguished122,181
Yuhua WangDistinguished302,121
Grzegorz EkiertDistinguished451,973
Danielle S. AllenDistinguished521,588
Eric NelsonDistinguished23859
Michael Eric ROSENDistinguished29240

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 410,756.

Top journals

JournalWorksCitations
Education next1402,245
American Political Science Review6831,278
American Journal of Political Science5928,276
Perspectives on Politics465,772
PS Political Science & Politics452,119
The Journal of Politics393,623
Political Analysis3626,489
Journal of democracy269,031
Princeton University Press eBooks2525,842
Cambridge University Press eBooks2310,910
International Organization236,610
British Journal of Political Science236,084
Comparative Political Studies233,985
˜The œWall Street journal (Eastern ed. : Online)/˜The œWall Street journal. Eastern edition2329
World Politics2210,374

The 15 venues holding most of these works, of 515. Citations are over the works of that venue carrying a count; a venue with none is a dash.