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

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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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Journal

The China Quarterly

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Citation weight

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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’ median2,486.0 · 7%
B · citations per work116.2 · 56%
N · works41 · 57%
P · academics10 · 16%
Formula result0.506

From this institution

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

Works30
Citations2,802 over 22 of 30 works
Citations per counted work127.4
Weighted citations
Academics9
Departments7
First seen1973

Works placed per year

29 of these 30 works carry a year; an undated work is in no year. Works placed, under these filters.

Departments publishing there 7

DepartmentWorks
Columbia Political Science11
Harvard Government9
Penn Political Science3
Princeton Politics3
Cornell Government2
Brown Political Science1
Dartmouth Government1

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

Works placed there 30

YearTitleAcademicsCitations
1973A Factionalism Model for CCP PoliticsAndrew J. Nathan630
2015The Rise of the Chinese Security StateYuhua Wang329
1994Trends in the Study of Contemporary Chinese Politics: State-Society RelationsElizabeth J. Perry289
2012Local Energy Efficiency Policy Implementation in China: bridging the gap between national priorities and local interests.William R. Hobbs286
2016Real-world Islands in a Social Media Sea: Nationalism and Censorship on Weibo during the 2012 Diaoyu/Senkaku CrisisAllen R. Carlson187
1994Shanghai's Strike Wave of 1957Elizabeth J. Perry174
1985Rural Violence in Socialist ChinaElizabeth J. Perry152
1994Human Rights in Chinese Foreign PolicyAndrew J. Nathan142
2020Repressive Experiences in the China Field: New Evidence from Survey Data.Rory Truex137
2014Empowering the Police: How the Chinese Communist Party Manages its Coercive LeadersYuhua Wang115
2016Beyond Local Protectionism: China’s State–Business Relations in the Last Two DecadesYuhua Wang104
2021Who Not What: The Logic of China's Information Control StrategyBlake Miller89
1976Oscillations in the PRC: A CritiqueAndrew J. Nathan47
2015Public Opinion towards Return Migration: A Survey Experiment of Chinese Netizens.Rory Truex31
2021Missionaries of the Party: Work Team Participation and Intellectual IncorporationElizabeth J. Perry28
2019The Limits of Commercialized Censorship in China.Blake Miller24
2004The Tiananmen Papers RevisitedAndrew J. Nathan16
2001The Tiananmen Papers: An Editor’s ReflectionsAndrew J. Nathan8
2025The Politics of Promotion in China’s Foreign Policy BureaucracyTyler Jost7
2024Dethroning the Mao-Era Elite, Clearing the Way for ReformYuhua Wang4
2004Rejoinder to Alfred L. ChanAndrew J. Nathan2
2024Information Diets in an Information Desert: Selective Exposure in a Restricted Information EnvironmentSean J. Westwood1
2019Roderick Lemonde MacFarquhar, 1930–2019Elizabeth J. Perry
2023Tim OakesRory Truex
1988People's Republic of China: The Human Rights Exception. By Roberta Cohen. Corrected edition. A Report to the Parliamentary Human Rights Group. [London: Parliamentary Human Rights Group, 1988. 104 pp.]Andrew J. Nathan
1994American Studies of Contemporary China. Edited by Shambaugh David. [Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1993. 369 pp. Hard cover £44.00, ISBN 1-56324-266-4; paperback £18.00, ISBN 1-56324-267-2.]Andrew J. Nathan
1976ReplyAndrew J. Nathan
2021This list of books received at The China Quarterly during the period stated is intended to serve as an up-to-date guide to books published on imperial, modern and contemporary …Andrew J. Nathan
1976Andrew J. Nathan RepliesAndrew J. Nathan
Uncertainties in the Empirical Analysis of Data from Platforms in China.Blake Miller

Citations as counted, before any journal weight: 22 of these 30 works carry a count, and a work with no count is unknown, never a zero.