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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UniversityHarvard
FieldPolitical Science
Academics41

Totals

Publications2,826
Citations459,747
Per academic3,991.5

Coverage

Works with a count2,130 of 2,826
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.0510152025none Academics 551-4 Academics 115-14 Academics 4415-39 Academics 101040+ Academics 2121none1-45-1415-3940+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.0510151-99 Academics 11100-999 Academics 881,000-9,999 Academics 141410,000+ Academics 13131-99100-9991,000-9,99910,000+AcademicsCitations of one academic

Who writes with whom 15 pairs

Stephen Daniel AnsolabehereJames M. Snyder, Jr.Kosuke ImaiGary KingDustin TingleyDaniel ZiblattSteven LevitskyJennifer HochschildStephen ChaudoinGrzegorz EkiertClaudine GayJoshua David KertzerPeter A. HallTorben Iversen
Stephen Daniel Ansolabehere 25 · 1 · · · · · · · · · ·
James M. Snyder, Jr. 25 · · · · · · · · · · · ·
Kosuke Imai · · 14 9 · · · · · · · · ·
Gary King 1 · 14 · · · · · · · · 1 1
Dustin Tingley · · 9 · · · · 3 · · 2 · ·
Daniel Ziblatt · · · · · 10 · · 1 · · · ·
Steven Levitsky · · · · · 10 · · · · · · ·
Jennifer Hochschild · · · · · · · · · 2 · · ·
Stephen Chaudoin · · · · 3 · · · · · · · ·
Grzegorz Ekiert · · · · · 1 · · · · · · ·
Claudine Gay · · · · · · · 2 · · · · ·
Joshua David Kertzer · · · · 2 · · · · · · · ·
Peter A. Hall · · · 1 · · · · · · · · ·
Torben Iversen · · · 1 · · · · · · · · ·

73 of the 2,826 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. 5 more academics collaborate here and did not fit the square.

Roster 41

NameRankPublicationsCitations
Gary KingDistinguished356122,507
Peter A. HallDistinguished15458,875
Kosuke ImaiFull16658,761
Dustin TingleyDistinguished10138,589
Steven LevitskyDistinguished10738,219
James M. Snyder, Jr.Distinguished14227,734
Paul E. PetersonDistinguished41919,853
Torben IversenDistinguished6717,530
Alastair Iain JohnstonResearch5515,764
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
Ryan D. EnosFull403,740
Taeku LeeDistinguished563,297
Christina L. DavisDistinguished393,058
Alisha C. HollandFull242,459
Claudine GayDistinguished122,181
Yuhua WangDistinguished302,121
Grzegorz EkiertDistinguished451,973
Danielle S. AllenDistinguished521,588
Stephen ChaudoinAssociate271,473
Eric NelsonDistinguished23859
Katrina ForresterUnknown22841
Pia J. RafflerAssistant8695
Mashail MalikAssistant8448
Christoph MikulaschekAssistant10298
Michael Eric ROSENDistinguished29240
Marcel F. RomanAssistant15200
Stephanie TernulloAssistant19168
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 459,747.

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
Princeton University Press eBooks2727,394
Journal of democracy279,040
British Journal of Political Science276,204
Comparative Political Studies274,623

The 12 venues holding most of these works, of 560. Citations are over the works of that venue carrying a count; a venue with none is a dash.