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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Columbia Political Science

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Department

UniversityColumbia
FieldPolitical Science
Academics40

Totals

Publications3,042
Citations451,324
Per academic2,738.5

Coverage

Works with a count1,883 of 3,042
Share62%

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 1212FullFull 1010AssociateAssociate 55AssistantAssistant 88UnknownUnknown 55024681012RankAcademics

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 441-4 Academics 115-14 Academics 3315-39 Academics 181840+ Academics 1414none1-45-1415-3940+AcademicsPublications by one academic

Citations per academic

Over the 36 of 40 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.05101520251-99 Academics 11100-999 Academics 771,000-9,999 Academics 212110,000+ Academics 771-99100-9991,000-9,99910,000+AcademicsCitations of one academic

Who writes with whom 14 pairs

Jeffrey R. LaxJustin H. PhillipsDonald P. GreenAlessandra M. CasellaAndrew GelmanMichael M. TingAllison CarnegieJohn MarshallSarah Zukerman DalyShigeo HiranoGregory J. WawroNikhar GaikwadYamil Ricardo VelezDavid C. Johnston
Jeffrey R. Lax 8 · · · · · · · · · · · ·
Justin H. Phillips 8 · · · · · · · · · · · ·
Donald P. Green · · · 1 · 1 · · · · · 2 ·
Alessandra M. Casella · · · 3 · · · · · 1 · · ·
Andrew Gelman · · 1 3 · · · · · · · · ·
Michael M. Ting · · · · · · · · 3 · · · ·
Allison Carnegie · · 1 · · · · · · · 2 · ·
John Marshall · · · · · · · 3 · · · · ·
Sarah Zukerman Daly · · · · · · · 3 · · · · ·
Shigeo Hirano · · · · · 3 · · · · · · ·
Gregory J. Wawro · · · 1 · · · · · · · · ·
Nikhar Gaikwad · · · · · · 2 · · · · · ·
Yamil Ricardo Velez · · 2 · · · · · · · · · ·
David C. Johnston · · · · · · · · · · · · ·

29 of the 3,042 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. 6 more academics collaborate here and did not fit the square.

Roster 40

NameRankPublicationsCitations
Andrew GelmanDistinguished533233,390
Donald P. GreenDistinguished24061,250
Andreas WimmerDistinguished11430,506
Nadia UrbinatiDistinguished24512,949
John D. HuberFull3811,846
Jack L. SnyderDistinguished7911,833
Andrew J. NathanDistinguished74510,887
Maria Victoria MurilloFull1029,133
Sharyn O’HalloranDistinguished428,514
Robert Y. ShapiroDistinguished1258,394
Timothy M. FryeDistinguished647,200
Virginia Page FortnaDistinguished206,172
Justin H. PhillipsAssociate264,482
Jeffrey R. LaxFull234,112
Alessandra M. CasellaFull563,927
Michael M. TingFull353,480
John MarshallAssociate303,164
Jean Louise CohenDistinguished682,894
Ira I. KatznelsonDistinguished1052,583
Gregory J. WawroFull322,389
Allison CarnegieFull442,225
Shigeo HiranoAssociate181,882
Elizabeth Nathan SaundersFull341,821
Junyan JiangAssistant181,534
Yamil Ricardo VelezAssistant271,299
Sarah Zukerman DalyAssociate341,111
Fredrick C. HarrisFull351,109
Nikhar GaikwadAssistant181,065
Eunji KimAssistant17996
Carlo PratoAssociate22938
Turkuler ISIKSELAssistant20671
Joshua Foa DienstagUnknown27530
Gemma DipoppaAssistant12521
David C. JohnstonFull12465
Calvin ThrallAssistant9222
Andrew J. McCallAssistant25
Caterina ChioprisUnknown0
Daniel LubanUnknown0
Karuna MantenaUnknown0
Mahmood MamdaniUnknown0

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 451,324.

Top journals

JournalWorksCitations
Foreign Affairs5223,766
American Journal of Political Science7320,027
American Political Science Review6618,637
The Journal of Politics628,515
Public Opinion Quarterly444,021
Political Science Quarterly31590
The New Republic2932
Perspectives on Politics28373
World Politics275,472
Political Analysis273,332
CHANCE27210
Cambridge University Press eBooks2532,220

The 12 venues holding most of these works, of 557. Citations are over the works of that venue carrying a count; a venue with none is a dash.