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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Penn Political Science

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Department

UniversityPenn
FieldPolitical Science
Academics37

Totals

Publications1,487
Citations164,961
Per academic4,594

Coverage

Works with a count1,050 of 1,487
Share71%

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 1515FullFull 55AssociateAssociate 66AssistantAssistant 77PostdocPostdoc 11UnknownUnknown 33051015RankAcademics

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.051015none Academics 331-4 Academics 225-14 Academics 5515-39 Academics 141440+ Academics 1313none1-45-1415-3940+AcademicsPublications by one academic

Citations per academic

Over the 34 of 37 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 22100-999 Academics 10101,000-9,999 Academics 161610,000+ Academics 661-99100-9991,000-9,99910,000+AcademicsCitations of one academic

Who writes with whom 15 pairs

Matthew LevenduskyMarc MeredithDiana C. MutzEdward D. MansfieldDaniel J. HopkinsGuy GrossmanMichael HorowitzJulia LynchTulia G. FalletiBeth SimmonsGareth NellisMichele F. MargolisAlex WeisigerTARIQ THACHIL
Matthew Levendusky 1 · · · 1 2 · · · · 2 · ·
Marc Meredith 1 · · 3 1 · · · · · · · ·
Diana C. Mutz · · 5 · · · · · 1 · · · ·
Edward D. Mansfield · · 5 · · · · · · · · · ·
Daniel J. Hopkins · 3 · · · · · · 1 · · · ·
Guy Grossman 1 1 · · · · · · · 1 · · ·
Michael Horowitz 2 · · · · · · · · · · 1 ·
Julia Lynch · · · · · · · 3 · · · · ·
Tulia G. Falleti · · · · · · · 3 · · · · ·
Beth Simmons · · 1 · 1 · · · · · · · ·
Gareth Nellis · · · · · 1 · · · · · · 1
Michele F. Margolis 2 · · · · · · · · · · · ·
Alex Weisiger · · · · · · 1 · · · · · ·
TARIQ THACHIL · · · · · · · · · · 1 · ·

23 of the 1,487 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. 2 more academics collaborate here and did not fit the square.

Roster 37

NameRankPublicationsCitations
Beth SimmonsDistinguished8623,360
Amy GutmannDistinguished7620,009
Diana C. MutzDistinguished7619,336
Edward D. MansfieldDistinguished9717,333
Matthew LevenduskyDistinguished4316,002
Daniel J. HopkinsDistinguished6815,597
Michael HorowitzDistinguished1477,773
Guy GrossmanDistinguished475,758
Erik WibbelsDistinguished545,365
Brendan O'LearyDistinguished2524,859
Tulia G. FalletiDistinguished384,297
Marc MeredithFull423,850
Julia LynchFull573,749
Michael Jones-CorreaDistinguished623,657
Michele F. MargolisAssociate182,541
Sarah BushFull352,053
Rudra SilFull311,945
Daniel M. SmithAssociate391,775
Julia GrayAssociate281,773
Parrish BergquistAssistant191,641
John S. LapinskiPostdoc201,517
TARIQ THACHILDistinguished161,272
Melissa LeeAssociate16852
Roxanne L. EubenDistinguished29795
Gareth NellisAssociate15730
Fiona S. CunninghamAssistant13575
Alex WeisigerAssistant7413
Daniel GillionDistinguished8305
Jane EsbergAssistant13291
Jeffrey Edward GreenFull30224
Blake MillerAssistant7195
Loren GoldmanAssociate17124
Soosun YouAssistant318
Christian "Chris" ChambersAssistant21
Andrew ThompsonUnknown0
John DiIulioUnknown0
Marie GottschalkUnknown0

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 164,961.

Top journals

JournalWorksCitations
International Organization5620,416
The Journal of Politics537,510
The Irish Times53
American Journal of Political Science4513,414
American Political Science Review4418,108
Comparative Political Studies303,498
Public Opinion Quarterly285,759
International Studies Quarterly272,667
Journal of Conflict Resolution233,291
Perspectives on Politics211,633
Annual Review of Political Science1910,931
International Security172,987

The 12 venues holding most of these works, of 337. Citations are over the works of that venue carrying a count; a venue with none is a dash.