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.
Trackademia
Value Measure

Journals

Citations · the 15 highest of 1,020
1 American Political Science Review 3 · 199 works 82,841
2 American Journal of Political Science unranked · 191 works 65,208
3 Political Analysis 2 · 79 works 40,764
4 International Organization 3 · 133 works 40,592
5 Journal of Statistical Software unranked · 14 works 36,222
6 The Journal of Politics unranked · 160 works 27,632
7 Statistical Science 1 · 25 works 26,773
8 Science 1 · 32 works 25,238
9 World Politics 3 · 86 works 23,309
10 Annual Review of Political Science 2 · 63 works 22,406
11 Perspectives on Politics unranked · 189 works 17,377
12 Comparative Politics 3 · 28 works 16,257
13 Political Studies 3 · 10 works 15,056
14 Journal of democracy 3 · 72 works 14,573
15 Journal of Conflict Resolution 3 · 64 works 14,156

938,856 citations over 4,807 of 6,183 works (78% carry a count). 99 of 100 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 Political Science ReviewAmerican Journal of Political SciencePolitical AnalysisInternational OrganizationJournal of Statistical SoftwareThe Journal of PoliticsStatistical ScienceScienceWorld PoliticsAnnual Review of Political SciencePerspectives on PoliticsComparative PoliticsPolitical StudiesJournal of democracyJournal of Conflict Resolution

The 15 journals highest on the list, of 1,020 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% 9450 6426/9450 0.68%
  • 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.Global NetworksGlobal Networks 6,918.06,918.0 over 1 of 1The Annals of Applied ProbabilityThe Annals of Applied Probability 2,796.02,796.0 over 1 of 2Journal of Statistical SoftwareJournal of Statistical Software 2,587.32,587.3 over 14 of 14Statistics and ComputingStatistics and Computing 2,193.42,193.4 over 5 of 5Psychological MethodsPsychological Methods 1,842.71,842.7 over 3 of 3PEDIATRICSPEDIATRICS 1,767.01,767.0 over 1 of 1Annual Review of PsychologyAnnual Review of Psychology 1,641.51,641.5 over 2 of 2Nature Reviews Methods PrimersNature Reviews Methods Primers 1,628.01,628.0 over 1 of 1Political StudiesPolitical Studies 1,505.61,505.6 over 10 of 10Journal of Business and Economic StatisticsJournal of Business and Economic Statistics 1,374.51,374.5 over 2 of 2Statistical ScienceStatistical Science 1,274.91,274.9 over 21 of 25The Journal of Southern HistoryThe Journal of Southern History 1,196.01,196.0 over 2 of 3Bayesian AnalysisBayesian Analysis 1,026.61,026.6 over 11 of 19The Annals of Applied StatisticsThe Annals of Applied Statistics 1,009.71,009.7 over 3 of 4Social Research: An International QuarterlySocial Research: An International Quarterly 1,009.01,009.0 over 1 of 10.02,500.05,000.0JournalCitations per counted work

The 15 highest of the 930 journals with a counted work. Each bar is over the works of that journal carrying a count, and says how many of how many; 1,376 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% 9450 6426/9450 0.68%
  • 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 1,020 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% 2458 1828/2458 0.7436940602115542%
Penn Political Science 15 15/15 1.0% 14/15 0.9333333333333333% 15/15 1.0% 1279 870/1279 0.6802189210320563%
Princeton Politics 13 13/13 1.0% 9/13 0.6923076923076923% 12/13 0.9230769230769231% 900 654/900 0.7266666666666667%
Brown Political Science 12 12/12 1.0% 7/12 0.5833333333333334% 12/12 1.0% 753 519/753 0.6892430278884463%
Columbia Political Science 12 12/12 1.0% 8/12 0.6666666666666666% 12/12 1.0% 2378 1341/2378 0.563919259882254%
Yale Political Science 11 11/11 1.0% 10/11 0.9090909090909091% 11/11 1.0% 861 665/861 0.7723577235772358%
Dartmouth Government 7 7/7 1.0% 6/7 0.8571428571428571% 7/7 1.0% 406 325/406 0.8004926108374384%
Cornell Government 6 6/6 1.0% 5/6 0.8333333333333334% 6/6 1.0% 603 394/603 0.6533996683250415%
  • 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% 9450 6426/9450 0.68%
  • 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.