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

Publicationshere

  • 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

Journals

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

Publications

Citations · the 15 highest of 2,466 works
1 A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving 2023 · CQ Press · Eric M. Patashnik 3,378
2 Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide 2022 · Cornell University Press · Peter Andreas 2,567
3 A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs: Extensions 2024 · Cambridge Elements: Quantitative and Computational Methods for Social Science, Cambridge University Press · Rocío Titiunik 1,835
4 Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology, 3rd Edition 2023 · Oxford University Press · Jennifer Jerit 919
5 Bayesian Workflow 2026 · London: CRC Press · Andrew Gelman 751
6 Matching Methods for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data 2023 · American Journal of Political Science · Kosuke Imai 700
7 How Do Social Media Feed Algorithms Affect Attitudes and Behavior in an Election Campaign? 2023 · Science · Andrew M. Guess, Brendan Nyhan 673
8 Pareto smoothed importance sampling 2024 · Journal of Machine Learning Research · Andrew Gelman 659
9 Regression Discontinuity Designs 2022 · Annual Review of Economics · Rocío Titiunik 635
10 Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing 2023 · Nature · Andrew M. Guess, Brendan Nyhan 549
11 Asymmetric Ideological Segregation in Exposure to Political News on Facebook 2023 · Science · Andrew M. Guess, Brendan Nyhan 503
12 Does Affective Polarization Undermine Democratic Norms or Accountability? Maybe Not 2023 · American Journal of Political Science · Joshua Kalla, Sean J. Westwood 437
13 Word Embeddings: What works, what doesn’t, and how to tell the difference for applied research 2022 · The Journal of Politics · Arthur Spirling 395
14 Placebo Tests for Causal Inference. 2024 · American Journal of Political Science · Guadalupe Tuñón 377
15 Re-assessing Elite-Public Gaps in Political Behavior. 2022 · American Journal of Political Science · Joshua David Kertzer 349

63,322 citations over 1,778 of 2,466 works (72% carry a count). 255 of 309 academics have at least one counted work. A work with no citation count is unknown here, never a zero.

Works published per year

Publications in each year
Measure X axis Each point

Every selected work by the year it was published, each work once however many of these departments hold it. 162 carry no year and are on 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% 2466 1778/2466 0.7210056772100568%
  • 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.

Citations received per year

Citations in each year
Value Measure Each point

The works these filters select, whatever year they were published; the year window picks the years the citations arrived in. 6,227 of 14,158 works carry a year-by-year record inside it.

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% 2466 1778/2466 0.7210056772100568%
  • 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.
Notes

A year-by-year record of citations to one work is OpenAlex’s. A Scholar profile counts everything one person wrote and is not about a work, so no Scholar figure is in this chart; the counts beside it still follow the one citation rule.

Citation distribution

How the citations fall across the works
Value
Series: Works.02004006008000-1 Works 2902902-10 Works 60360311-100 Works 757757100+ Works 1281280-12-1011-100100+WorksCitations

The 1,778 works that carry a count, by how many citations they have; the last bucket is everything above a hundred. The median is 10. 688 works carry no count and are in no bucket.

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% 2466 1778/2466 0.7210056772100568%
  • 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.

Citations by age of work

Citations by years since publication
Value Measure

The total citations of the works published that many years ago, over the works that carry a count. A work with no year is on no point, and a point at the far end is over few works: 175 at the thinnest age.

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% 2466 1778/2466 0.7210056772100568%
  • 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.

Publication type mix

Citations by publication type
Value
Series: value.ArticlesArticles 49,90649,906BooksBooks 11,96711,967Edited volumesEdited volumes 1,4491,449010,00020,00030,00040,000Publication typeCitations

The 1,778 works that carry a count, by their publication type. A type none of whose works carries one is on no bar rather than on a zero. The Publication type filter decides which are here at all.

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% 2466 1778/2466 0.7210056772100568%
  • 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.

Top venues

Where these works earned their citations
Value
Series: value.American Journal of Political ScienceAmerican Journal of Political Science 6,3666,366The Journal of PoliticsThe Journal of Politics 4,1924,192American Political Science ReviewAmerican Political Science Review 3,1813,181Latin American Politics and SocietyLatin American Politics and Society 2,6872,687Cambridge University Press eBooksCambridge University Press eBooks 2,4732,473ScienceScience 2,0212,021Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1,8611,861Annual Review of Political ScienceAnnual Review of Political Science 1,8381,838NatureNature 1,0501,050Princeton University Press eBooksPrinceton University Press eBooks 1,0171,017Political Science Research and MethodsPolitical Science Research and Methods 964964International OrganizationInternational Organization 959959Comparative Political StudiesComparative Political Studies 902902British Journal of Political ScienceBritish Journal of Political Science 900900arXiv (Cornell University)arXiv (Cornell University) 89089002,5005,000VenueCitations

The 15 venues whose works earned the most citations, of 507 holding a selected work; a venue none of whose works carries a count is on no bar rather than on a zero. 358 works are in no journal record.

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% 2466 1778/2466 0.7210056772100568%
  • 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.