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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Cornell Government

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Department

UniversityCornell
FieldPolitical Science
Academics31

Totals

Publications1,444
Citations80,032
Per academic2,702

Coverage

Works with a count985 of 1,444
Share68%

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 66FullFull 77AssociateAssociate 1010AssistantAssistant 880246810RankAcademics

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.0510151-4 Academics 445-14 Academics 3315-39 Academics 111140+ Academics 13131-45-1415-3940+AcademicsPublications by one academic

Citations per academic

Over the 31 of 31 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 991,000-9,999 Academics 181810,000+ Academics 111-99100-9991,000-9,99910,000+AcademicsCitations of one academic

Who writes with whom 13 pairs

Sarah E. KrepsDouglas L. KrinerKenneth RobertsThomas B. PepinskySuzanne MettlerGustavo A. Flores-MacíasJamila MichenerDaniel N.j. de KadtMelissa Lee SandsRachel Beatty RiedlAllen R. CarlsonPeter Joachim KatzensteinPeter K. Enns
Sarah E. Kreps 18 · · · 4 · · · · · · ·
Douglas L. Kriner 18 · · · 1 · · · · · · 1
Kenneth Roberts · · 3 3 · 1 · · 2 · · ·
Thomas B. Pepinsky · · 3 2 · 2 · · · · · ·
Suzanne Mettler · · 3 2 · 1 · · · · · ·
Gustavo A. Flores-Macías 4 1 · · · · · · · · · ·
Jamila Michener · · 1 2 1 · · · · · · ·
Daniel N.j. de Kadt · · · · · · · 4 · · · ·
Melissa Lee Sands · · · · · · · 4 · · · ·
Rachel Beatty Riedl · · 2 · · · · · · · · ·
Allen R. Carlson · · · · · · · · · · 1 ·
Peter Joachim Katzenstein · · · · · · · · · · 1 ·
Peter K. Enns · 1 · · · · · · · · · ·

34 of the 1,444 selected works are held by two of these academics, making 13 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 31

NameRankPublicationsCitations
Peter Joachim KatzensteinDistinguished11410,083
Kenneth RobertsFull1019,463
Sarah E. KrepsDistinguished1569,456
Suzanne MettlerDistinguished798,725
Thomas B. PepinskyDistinguished1528,649
Peter John LoewenFull1105,785
Douglas L. KrinerDistinguished855,167
Peter K. EnnsFull684,293
Richard F. BenselDistinguished372,730
Jamila MichenerFull702,651
Sabrina M. KarimAssociate482,017
Gustavo A. Flores-MacíasFull571,898
Rachel Beatty RiedlFull321,711
William R. HobbsAssociate221,471
Allen R. CarlsonAssociate371,388
Diana FuAssociate181,138
Bryn RosenfeldAssociate171,133
patchen markellAssociate201,084
Melissa Lee SandsAssociate141,036
Talbot M. AndrewsAssistant39825
Daniel N.j. de KadtAssociate13773
David Alexander BatemanAssociate25516
Alexander LivingstonAssociate40433
Dillon LaakerAssistant2359
Oumar BaAssistant49319
Isabel María PereraAssistant33204
Averell SchmidtAssistant8198
Jason FrankFull28193
Amanda WeissAssistant433
Sarah F. ThompsonAssistant19
Katherine IrajpanahAssistant38

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 80,032.

Top journals

JournalWorksCitations
Perspectives on Politics424,315
American Political Science Review274,087
Foreign Affairs251,104
The Monkey Cage256
The Journal of Politics233,040
The Washington Post2229
Cambridge University Press eBooks194,839
American Journal of Political Science173,311
International Organization172,574
Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law16525
Comparative Political Studies151,326
Political Behavior14479
PS Political Science & Politics14187
Studies in American Political Development13239
The New York Times1367

The 15 venues holding most of these works, of 366. Citations are over the works of that venue carrying a count; a venue with none is a dash.