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

Departments

  • 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

Journalshere

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.

Value Measure

Journals

Citations · the 15 highest of 484
1 Science 1 · 18 works 14,113
2 Journal of Statistical Software unranked · 2 works 13,711
3 Annual Review of Political Science 2 · 26 works 8,536
4 Statistics and Computing unranked · 2 works 7,846
5 Nature Human Behaviour 1 · 15 works 7,404
6 The Journal of Politics unranked · 71 works 7,036
8 American Journal of Political Science unranked · 52 works 6,941
9 Political Analysis 2 · 20 works 5,375
10 American Political Science Review 3 · 33 works 5,248
11 Bayesian Analysis 1 · 9 works 4,300
12 International Organization 3 · 40 works 3,896
13 Comparative Political Studies unranked · 31 works 2,704
14 Journal of Business and Economic Statistics unranked · 1 works 2,692
15 Latin American Politics and Society 2 · 3 works 2,637

169,573 citations over 1,507 of 2,022 works (75% carry a count). 94 of 96 academics have at least one counted work. A work with no citation count is unknown here, never a zero.

Works placed per year

Works published in each year
Value Each point

ScienceJournal of Statistical SoftwareAnnual Review of Political ScienceStatistics and ComputingNature Human BehaviourThe Journal of PoliticsProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesAmerican Journal of Political SciencePolitical AnalysisAmerican Political Science ReviewBayesian AnalysisInternational OrganizationComparative Political StudiesJournal of Business and Economic StatisticsLatin American Politics and Society

The 15 journals highest on the list, of 484 these filters select. A publication count is over every selected work; an undated work is in no year.

What these filters select, over everything selected not what the graph divided by
Selected Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Everything selected 100 100/100 1.0% 75/100 0.75% 98/100 0.98% 2863 1892/2863 0.6608452672022355%
  • Over the academics these filters select, so a filtered page describes the academics it selected and not the whole department.
  • A row with nothing held draws no mark above: the graph is quiet there because the evidence is missing, not because the work is.
  • What there was to draw from, not what the graph divided by - the graph states its own denominator above.
  • A Scholar profile is attached when at least 3 of the CV titles are found on it, or 30% of them are; one at another institution or under a different name needs 10 titles, and a profile far larger than the CV that holds only a small part of it is refused. Its articles are then checked one by one: what is not a work, or not by this person, is not counted.

Mean citations per work

Citations a work in the venue carries
Measure
Series: value.Journal of Statistical SoftwareJournal of Statistical Software 6,855.56,855.5 over 2 of 2Statistics and ComputingStatistics and Computing 3,923.03,923.0 over 2 of 2Journal of Business and Economic StatisticsJournal of Business and Economic Statistics 2,692.02,692.0 over 1 of 1Nature Reviews Methods PrimersNature Reviews Methods Primers 1,628.01,628.0 over 1 of 1British Journal of SociologyBritish Journal of Sociology 1,368.01,368.0 over 1 of 1Latin American Politics and SocietyLatin American Politics and Society 1,318.51,318.5 over 2 of 3OUP CatalogueOUP Catalogue 1,276.01,276.0 over 1 of 1Annual Review of PsychologyAnnual Review of Psychology 1,121.01,121.0 over 1 of 1ScienceScience 830.2830.2 over 17 of 18International AffairsInternational Affairs 709.0709.0 over 2 of 2Bayesian AnalysisBayesian Analysis 614.3614.3 over 7 of 9Nature Human BehaviourNature Human Behaviour 528.9528.9 over 14 of 15Behavioural Public PolicyBehavioural Public Policy 474.7474.7 over 3 of 3EntropyEntropy 403.5403.5 over 2 of 2Nature MedicineNature Medicine 373.2373.2 over 4 of 50.02,500.05,000.0JournalCitations per counted work

The 15 highest of the 438 journals with a counted work. Each bar is over the works of that journal carrying a count, and says how many of how many; 515 selected works carry no count and are in no bar. Citations as counted, before any journal weight: the weight is what the next chart is testing.

What these filters select, over everything selected not what the graph divided by
Selected Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Everything selected 100 100/100 1.0% 75/100 0.75% 98/100 0.98% 2863 1892/2863 0.6608452672022355%
  • Over the academics these filters select, so a filtered page describes the academics it selected and not the whole department.
  • A row with nothing held draws no mark above: the graph is quiet there because the evidence is missing, not because the work is.
  • What there was to draw from, not what the graph divided by - the graph states its own denominator above.
  • A Scholar profile is attached when at least 3 of the CV titles are found on it, or 30% of them are; one at another institution or under a different name needs 10 titles, and a profile far larger than the CV that holds only a small part of it is refused. Its articles are then checked one by one: what is not a work, or not by this person, is not counted.

Which departments publish in which journal

What each department placed in each of these journals.
Value

The 10 journals highest on the list, of 484 these filters select, against the 8 departments with most in them. A work by two departments counts once in each, and a work by two academics of one department counts once in theirs. A pair that placed nothing is a dot.

What these filters select, per department not what the graph divided by
Department Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Harvard Government 24 24/24 1.0% 16/24 0.6666666666666666% 23/24 0.9583333333333334% 621 459/621 0.7391304347826086%
Penn Political Science 15 15/15 1.0% 14/15 0.9333333333333333% 15/15 1.0% 447 304/447 0.680089485458613%
Princeton Politics 13 13/13 1.0% 9/13 0.6923076923076923% 12/13 0.9230769230769231% 239 184/239 0.7698744769874477%
Brown Political Science 12 12/12 1.0% 7/12 0.5833333333333334% 12/12 1.0% 229 135/229 0.5895196506550219%
Columbia Political Science 12 12/12 1.0% 8/12 0.6666666666666666% 12/12 1.0% 689 348/689 0.5050798258345428%
Yale Political Science 11 11/11 1.0% 10/11 0.9090909090909091% 11/11 1.0% 234 185/234 0.7905982905982906%
Dartmouth Government 7 7/7 1.0% 6/7 0.8571428571428571% 7/7 1.0% 167 142/167 0.8502994011976048%
Cornell Government 6 6/6 1.0% 5/6 0.8333333333333334% 6/6 1.0% 267 162/267 0.6067415730337079%
  • Over the academics these filters select, so a filtered page describes the academics it selected and not the whole department.
  • A row with nothing held draws no mark above: the graph is quiet there because the evidence is missing, not because the work is.
  • What there was to draw from, not what the graph divided by - the graph states its own denominator above.
  • A Scholar profile is attached when at least 3 of the CV titles are found on it, or 30% of them are; one at another institution or under a different name needs 10 titles, and a profile far larger than the CV that holds only a small part of it is refused. Its articles are then checked one by one: what is not a work, or not by this person, is not counted.

Weight against citations per work

What each weight band is cited

Nothing to draw under these filters.

Every journal the charts are about weighs the same under the current citation weight, so there is nothing to compare. Set a weight in the Citation weight pane.

What these filters select, over everything selected not what the graph divided by
Selected Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Everything selected 100 100/100 1.0% 75/100 0.75% 98/100 0.98% 2863 1892/2863 0.6608452672022355%
  • Over the academics these filters select, so a filtered page describes the academics it selected and not the whole department.
  • A row with nothing held draws no mark above: the graph is quiet there because the evidence is missing, not because the work is.
  • What there was to draw from, not what the graph divided by - the graph states its own denominator above.
  • A Scholar profile is attached when at least 3 of the CV titles are found on it, or 30% of them are; one at another institution or under a different name needs 10 titles, and a profile far larger than the CV that holds only a small part of it is refused. Its articles are then checked one by one: what is not a work, or not by this person, is not counted.