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

Search the whole site

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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Penn Political Science

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Department

UniversityPenn
FieldPolitical Science
Academics15

Totals

Publications1,279
Citations212,527
Per academic14,354

Coverage

Works with a count870 of 1,279
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 1515051015RankAcademics

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.0246810125-14 Academics 1115-39 Academics 2240+ Academics 12125-1415-3940+AcademicsPublications by one academic

Citations per academic

Over the 15 of 15 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.02468100-999 Academics 111,000-9,999 Academics 7710,000+ Academics 77100-9991,000-9,99910,000+AcademicsCitations of one academic

Who writes with whom 5 pairs

Diana C. MutzEdward D. MansfieldMatthew LevenduskyBeth SimmonsMichael HorowitzDaniel J. HopkinsGuy Grossman
Diana C. Mutz 5 · 1 · · ·
Edward D. Mansfield 5 · · · · ·
Matthew Levendusky · · · 2 · 1
Beth Simmons 1 · · · 1 ·
Michael Horowitz · · 2 · · ·
Daniel J. Hopkins · · · 1 · ·
Guy Grossman · · 1 · · ·

10 of the 1,279 selected works are held by two of these academics, making 5 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 15

NameRankPublicationsCitations
Amy GutmannDistinguished11152,167
Beth SimmonsDistinguished9729,566
Diana C. MutzDistinguished8626,320
Edward D. MansfieldDistinguished12322,174
Matthew LevenduskyDistinguished5220,138
Daniel J. HopkinsDistinguished7116,838
Brendan O'LearyDistinguished30911,298
Michael HorowitzDistinguished1509,047
Guy GrossmanDistinguished486,054
Tulia G. FalletiDistinguished476,053
Erik WibbelsDistinguished605,783
Michael Jones-CorreaDistinguished715,238
Roxanne L. EubenDistinguished332,316
TARIQ THACHILDistinguished201,798
Daniel GillionDistinguished11513

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 212,527.

Top journals

JournalWorksCitations
The Irish Times53
International Organization4819,282
The Journal of Politics355,664
American Political Science Review3016,748
American Journal of Political Science2910,518
Public Opinion Quarterly235,573
Journal of Conflict Resolution213,237
Comparative Political Studies212,823
International Studies Quarterly191,762
Annual Review of Political Science1410,531
International Security142,601
Perspectives on Politics14329
Cambridge University Press eBooks137,141
World Politics132,010
Foreign Affairs13443

The 15 venues holding most of these works, of 273. Citations are over the works of that venue carrying a count; a venue with none is a dash.