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 454
1 American Journal of Political Science unranked · 92 works 6,366
2 The Journal of Politics unranked · 104 works 4,192
3 American Political Science Review 3 · 74 works 3,181
4 Science 1 · 14 works 2,021
6 Annual Review of Political Science 2 · 25 works 1,838
7 Nature unranked · 9 works 1,050
8 Political Science Research and Methods unranked · 29 works 964
9 International Organization 3 · 30 works 959
10 Comparative Political Studies unranked · 36 works 902
12 Perspectives on Politics unranked · 47 works 844
13 Nature Human Behaviour 1 · 13 works 837
14 World Politics 3 · 27 works 717
15 Journal of democracy 3 · 29 works 695

47,873 citations over 1,533 of 1,870 works (82% carry a count). 248 of 254 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

American Journal of Political ScienceThe Journal of PoliticsAmerican Political Science ReviewScienceProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesAnnual Review of Political ScienceNaturePolitical Science Research and MethodsInternational OrganizationComparative Political StudiesBritish Journal of Political SciencePerspectives on PoliticsNature Human BehaviourWorld PoliticsJournal of democracy

The 15 journals highest on the list, of 454 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 309 274/309 0.8867313915857605% 232/309 0.7508090614886731% 266/309 0.86084142394822% 2271 1634/2271 0.7195068251871423%
  • 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.Annual Review of EconomicsAnnual Review of Economics 635.0635.0 over 1 of 1AI & SocietyAI & Society 196.0196.0 over 1 of 1NatureNature 175.0175.0 over 6 of 9ScienceScience 168.4168.4 over 12 of 14Humanities and Social Sciences CommunicationsHumanities and Social Sciences Communications 159.0159.0 over 1 of 3American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Review 159.0159.0 over 1 of 1Journal of Online Trust and SafetyJournal of Online Trust and Safety 157.0157.0 over 1 of 1Journal of International Business StudiesJournal of International Business Studies 129.0129.0 over 1 of 1iScienceiScience 127.0127.0 over 1 of 1Current Opinion in PsychologyCurrent Opinion in Psychology 114.0114.0 over 1 of 1Journal of Data Science Statistics and VisualisationJournal of Data Science Statistics and Visualisation 114.0114.0 over 1 of 1JAMAJAMA 113.0113.0 over 2 of 2Observational StudiesObservational Studies 111.3111.3 over 3 of 4European Journal of International RelationsEuropean Journal of International Relations 106.0106.0 over 1 of 1Advances in Methods and Practices in...chological ScienceAdvances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 101.5101.5 over 2 of 30.0250.0500.0JournalCitations per counted work

The 15 highest of the 402 journals with a counted work. Each bar is over the works of that journal carrying a count, and says how many of how many; 337 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 309 274/309 0.8867313915857605% 232/309 0.7508090614886731% 266/309 0.86084142394822% 2271 1634/2271 0.7195068251871423%
  • 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 454 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
Princeton Politics 56 48/56 0.8571428571428571% 41/56 0.7321428571428571% 45/56 0.8035714285714286% 325 270/325 0.8307692307692308%
Yale Political Science 42 36/42 0.8571428571428571% 36/42 0.8571428571428571% 35/42 0.8333333333333334% 269 225/269 0.8364312267657993%
Harvard Government 41 35/41 0.8536585365853658% 28/41 0.6829268292682927% 34/41 0.8292682926829268% 329 251/329 0.7629179331306991%
Columbia Political Science 40 35/40 0.875% 25/40 0.625% 35/40 0.875% 399 229/399 0.5739348370927319%
Penn Political Science 37 34/37 0.918918918918919% 28/37 0.7567567567567568% 34/37 0.918918918918919% 289 190/289 0.657439446366782%
Cornell Government 35 31/35 0.8857142857142857% 28/35 0.8% 30/35 0.8571428571428571% 349 254/349 0.7277936962750716%
Brown Political Science 30 27/30 0.9% 22/30 0.7333333333333333% 27/30 0.9% 199 138/199 0.6934673366834171%
Dartmouth Government 28 28/28 1.0% 24/28 0.8571428571428571% 26/28 0.9285714285714286% 193 154/193 0.7979274611398963%
  • 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 309 274/309 0.8867313915857605% 232/309 0.7508090614886731% 266/309 0.86084142394822% 2271 1634/2271 0.7195068251871423%
  • 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.