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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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

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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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British Journal of Political Science

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Citation weight

Tier3
Weight in force
Weightingoff

Weight inputs

Each figure with its percentile among the ranked journals. A is the median, over the academics with a work here, of that academic’s citations to the works this site counts for them - never a Google Scholar profile total. Over every academic of this field, all years, whatever the filters select.

A · academics’ median4,962.5 · 32%
B · citations per work148.5 · 67%
N · works126 · 86%
P · academics82 · 94%
Formula result0.790

From this institution

Under these filters. A work with no citation count is unknown here, never a zero.

Works70
Citations13,821 over 70 of 70 works
Citations per counted work197.4
Weighted citations
Academics37
Departments7
First seen1979

Works placed per year

70 of these 70 works carry a year; an undated work is in no year. Works placed, under these filters.

Departments publishing there 7

DepartmentWorks
Harvard Government23
Penn Political Science12
Yale Political Science12
Columbia Political Science10
Princeton Politics10
Cornell Government3
Dartmouth Government3

A work held by two departments counts once in each, so these add up to more than the works above.

Works placed there 70

YearTitleAcademicsCitations
1993Why are American Presidential election campaign polls so variable when votes are so predictable?Andrew Gelman · Gary King1,356
1999Social Capital in BritainPeter A. Hall1,334
2009Varieties of Capitalism and Institutional Complementarities in the Political EconomyPeter A. Hall1,277
1998Social Capital: Explaining Its Origins and Effects on Governmental PerformanceCarles Boix1,013
1986Presidential Leadership and the Resurgence of Trust in GovernmentDonald P. Green707
2014The Institutional Turn in Comparative AuthoritarianismThomas B. Pepinsky627
2000Habit-formation and Political Behavior: Evidence of Consuetude in Voter TurnoutDonald P. Green414
2019Beliefs about Beliefs: The Importance of Second-Order Opinions for Climate PoliticsDustin Tingley405
2015Which Democracies Will Last? Coups, Incumbent Takeovers, and the Dynamic of Democratic ConsolidationMilan Svolik371
2004Dismantling the Health Care State? Political Institutions, Public Policies, and the Comparative Politics of Health ReformJacob S. Hacker320
2007Vetoing Cooperation: The Impact of Veto Players on Preferential Trading Arrangements,Edward D. Mansfield · Helen V. Milner281
2010Disaggregating Deliberation’s Effects: An Experiment within a Deliberative PollDonald P. Green257
1991Constituency Service and Incumbency AdvantageGary King251
2020The Extraordinary Relationship between Peacekeeping and Peace.Virginia Page Fortna250
2004Standard voting power indexes don’t work: An empirical analysisAndrew Gelman214
1997Privatizating the Public Business Sector in the Eighties: Economic Performance, Partisan Responses and Divided GovernmentsCarles Boix212
1997On the Nature of Nationalism: A Critical Appraisal of Ernest Gellner's Writings on NationalismBrendan O'Leary212
2010Informal Social Networks and Rational VotingTorben Iversen206
1989Principled Tolerance and the American Mass PublicDonald P. Green206
2015The Upside of Accents: Language, Skin Tone, and Attitudes toward ImmigrationDaniel J. Hopkins201
2015Scandal Potential: How Political Context and News Congestion Affect the President’s Vulnerability to Media ScandalBrendan Nyhan194
2016Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter TurnoutAlan S. Gerber194
2021The Political Legacy of Violence during China’s Cultural RevolutionYuhua Wang191
1991Democratization Processes in East Central Europe: A Theoretical ReconsiderationGrzegorz Ekiert185
2018Do Men and Women Have Different Policy Preferences in Africa? Determinants and Implications of Gender Gaps in Policy Prioritization.Guy Grossman179
2011National Debates, Local Responses: The Origins of Local Concern about Immigration in the U.K. and the U.S.Daniel J. Hopkins168
2013Is There a Secret Ballot? Ballot Secrecy Perceptions and Their Implications for Voting BehaviorAlan S. Gerber · Gregory Alain Huber165
2018Hitting Them With Carrots: Voter Intimidation and Vote Buying in Russia.Timothy M. Frye164
2015Human Rights Institutions, Sovereignty Costs, and Democratization,Edward D. Mansfield159
2020Reciprocity and Public Opposition to Foreign Direct InvestmentDustin Tingley156
2020Reciprocity and public opposition to foreign direct investmentHelen V. Milner153
2004Civic Generation: Policy Feedback Effects of the G.I. Bill on Political Involvement Over the Life CourseSuzanne Mettler140
2021How Do Observers Assess Resolve?Joshua David Kertzer128
2013Testing the Swing Voter Hypothesis Using Federal Spending in the U.S. StatesJames M. Snyder, Jr.126
2016Why People Vote: Estimating the Social Returns to VotingAlan S. Gerber · Gregory Alain Huber123
2020Party Polarization, Ideological Sorting and the Emergence of the Partisan Gender GapDaniel Gillion105
2003Fragmenting Protection: The Political Economy of Trade Policy in the Post-Communist World.Edward D. Mansfield · Timothy M. Frye104
1991The Vanishing Marginals and Electoral Responsiveness,Stephen Daniel Ansolabehere98
1998Wage Bargaining, Hard Money and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence for Organized Market Economies.Torben Iversen93
2019Effects of the Great Recession on American Attitudes toward Trade,Diana C. Mutz · Edward D. Mansfield93
1979A Unitary Model of Local Taxation and Expenditure Policies in the United StatesPaul E. Peterson71
2016Party Cohesion in Westminster Systems: Inducements, Replacement and Discipline in the House of Commons, 1836–1910Arthur Spirling71
2021More Accurate, But No Less Polarized: Comparing the Factual Beliefs of Government Officials and the Public (corrigendum)Brendan Nyhan70
2014The Shadow Cabinet in Westminster Systems Modeling Opposition Agenda-Setting using House of Commons Speeches, 1832{1915Arthur Spirling64
1994Why Executive-Legislative Conflict in the United States is DwindlingPaul E. Peterson55
2009Partisan Dynamics and the Volatility of Presidential ApprovalDouglas L. Kriner49
2001Learning From Defeat? Political Analysis and the Failure of Health Care Reform in the United StatesJacob S. Hacker48
2020Reducing Risk as Well as Inequality: Assessing the Welfare State’s Insurance EffectsJacob S. Hacker46
2019When Deliberation Produces Persuasion rather than Polarization: Measuring and Modeling Small Group Dynamics in a Field Experiment.Taeku Lee42
2025How Mainstream Politicians Erode NormsDaniel Ziblatt40
2014‘It Isn’t What We Don’t Know that Gives Us Trouble, It’s What We Know that Ain’t So’: Misinformation and Democratic PoliticsJennifer Hochschild35
2023Informal Work, Risk and Clientelism: Evidence from 223 Slums Across India.Erik Wibbels31
2024Personal Economic Shocks and Opposition to Unauthorized ImmigrationDaniel J. Hopkins28
2024Giving to the Extreme? Experimental Evidence on Donor Response to Candidate and District CharacteristicsGregory Alain Huber26
2026Elite Misperceptions in Foreign Policy.Joshua David Kertzer23
2022The Effect of Electoral Inversions on Democratic Legitimacy: Evidence from the United StatesBrendan Nyhan · John Michael Carey19
2022Can Raising the Stakes of Election Outcomes Increase Participation? Results from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in Local ElectionsAlan S. Gerber · Gregory Alain Huber11
2022The Rise of Swedish Social DemocracyCarles Boix9
1989Principled tolerance and American political valuesDonald P. Green9
2023Stable Views in a Time of Tumult: Assessing Trends in American Public Opinion, 2007-2020Daniel J. Hopkins7
2011Rational Voting With Socially Embedded IndividualsTorben Iversen6
2025The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian IndoctrinationDaniel Ziblatt6
2024House Members on the News: Local Television News Coverage of IncumbentsGregory Alain Huber6
2025Field Experiments Invoking Gloating Villains to Increase Voter Participation: Anger, Anticipated Emotions, and Voting Turnout. British Journal of Political ScienceAlan S. Gerber · Gregory Alain Huber4
2024The Shadow Carceral State and Racial InequalityTali Mendelberg4
2026The First Wave of Globalization and Electoral Populism in the United StatesHelen V. Milner4
2020Public Opposition to Foreign Acquisitions of Domestic Companies: Evidence from the United States and China.Helen V. Milner3
2024The Importance of Breaking Even: How Local and Aggregate Returns Make Politically Feasible PoliciesAlan S. Gerber · Gregory Alain Huber2
1994Why Presidential-Congressional Conflict is DwindlingPaul E. Peterson0
1979A Unitary Model of Taxation and Expenditure Policy in the United StatesPaul E. Peterson0

Citations as counted, before any journal weight: 70 of these 70 works carry a count, and a work with no count is unknown, never a zero.