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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Princeton Politics

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Department

UniversityPrinceton
FieldPolitical Science
Academics47

Totals

Publications1,857
Citations256,066
Per academic5,481

Coverage

Works with a count1,439 of 1,857
Share77%

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 1313FullFull 1515AssociateAssociate 66AssistantAssistant 1313051015RankAcademics

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.051015201-4 Academics 335-14 Academics 8815-39 Academics 161640+ Academics 20201-45-1415-3940+AcademicsPublications by one academic

Citations per academic

Over the 46 of 47 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 33100-999 Academics 13131,000-9,999 Academics 191910,000+ Academics 11111-99100-9991,000-9,99910,000+AcademicsCitations of one academic

Who writes with whom 11 pairs

Amaney A. JamalCharles M. CameronJonathan P. KastellecHelen V. MilnerAndrew MoravcsikRafaela DancygierElizabeth R. NugentNolan McCartyStephen MacedoAndreas WiedemannArthur SpirlingFrances E. LeeIsmail K. WhiteMelissa Schwartzberg
Amaney A. Jamal · · 2 · 2 3 · · · · · · ·
Charles M. Cameron · 6 · · · · 1 · · · · · ·
Jonathan P. Kastellec · 6 · · · · · · · · · · ·
Helen V. Milner 2 · · 1 · · · · · · · 1 ·
Andrew Moravcsik · · · 1 · · · 2 · · · · ·
Rafaela Dancygier 2 · · · · · · · 1 · · · ·
Elizabeth R. Nugent 3 · · · · · · · · · · · ·
Nolan McCarty · 1 · · · · · · · · 1 · ·
Stephen Macedo · · · · 2 · · · · · · · ·
Andreas Wiedemann · · · · · 1 · · · · · · ·
Arthur Spirling · · · · · · · · · · · · 1
Frances E. Lee · · · · · · · 1 · · · · ·
Ismail K. White · · · 1 · · · · · · · · ·
Melissa Schwartzberg · · · · · · · · · · 1 · ·

21 of the 1,857 selected works are held by two of these academics, making 11 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 47

NameRankPublicationsCitations
Helen V. MilnerDistinguished13326,953
Carles BoixDistinguished6020,302
Rocío TitiunikFull4317,771
Andrew MoravcsikFull7817,149
James Raymond VreelandFull7014,649
Nolan McCartyDistinguished7314,130
Markus PriorFull2713,818
Andrew M. GuessAssociate4413,346
G. John IkenberryDistinguished12511,741
Atul KohliDistinguished6911,484
Leonard WantchekonFull6111,038
John Benedict LondreganFull377,986
Amaney A. JamalDistinguished1087,841
Tali MendelbergDistinguished657,545
Charles M. CameronFull566,617
Frances E. LeeFull466,323
Layna MosleyFull726,031
Jonathan MummoloAssociate235,803
Stephen MacedoDistinguished694,164
Arthur SpirlingDistinguished474,007
Ismail K. WhiteFull363,440
Rafaela DancygierDistinguished323,153
Grigore Pop-ElechesFull482,717
Jonathan P. KastellecFull362,677
Rory TruexAssociate262,526
Deborah J. YasharDistinguished222,376
Kristopher W. RamsayFull332,008
Hye Young YouAssociate231,522
Matias IaryczowerFull181,219
Melissa SchwartzbergDistinguished481,208
Jennifer A. WidnerFull20973
Elizabeth R. NugentAssistant23910
Xu XuAssistant13764
Christopher BlairAssistant31729
Guadalupe TuñónAssistant11620
Noah ZuckerAssistant10433
Andreas WiedemannAssistant12326
Lafleur Stephens-DouganAssociate7325
Nicholas KuipersAssistant17301
Tanushree GoyalAssistant5243
Gregory ContiAssistant21139
Gleason JuddAssistant9122
Germán GieczewskiAssociate9113
Naima Green-RileyAssistant331
Zeyang (Arthur) YuAssistant423
Temi OgunyeAssistant118
Melissa Sharon LaneDistinguished54

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 256,066.

Top journals

JournalWorksCitations
The Journal of Politics10315,336
American Political Science Review7518,240
American Journal of Political Science7214,389
International Organization4817,557
Cambridge University Press eBooks3621,794
Comparative Political Studies356,528
Perspectives on Politics332,299
World Politics328,687
PS Political Science & Politics24735
Political Analysis234,684
Journal of Conflict Resolution233,006
Foreign Affairs221,130
The Monkey Cage22124
Legislative Studies Quarterly211,179
International Studies Quarterly201,885

The 15 venues holding most of these works, of 378. Citations are over the works of that venue carrying a count; a venue with none is a dash.