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.

Value Measure

Publications

Citations · the 15 highest of 129 works
1 What Is Marriage? 2020 · Ius Humani, Revista de Derecho · Robert P. George 557
2 In the shadow of justice: Postwar liberalism and the remaking of political philosophy 2019 · Princeton University Press · Katrina Forrester 511
3 Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos 2017 · Oxford University Press · Juliet Hooker 403
4 Building an American empire: The era of territorial and political expansion 2017 · Princeton University Press · Paul Frymer 293
6 Labor unions and white racial politics 2021 · American Journal of Political Science · Paul Frymer 214
7 Hotels and highways: The construction of modernization theory in Cold War Turkey 2018 · Stanford University Press · Begüm Adalet 183
8 Conditionality & coercion: Electoral clientelism in Eastern Europe 2019 · Oxford University Press · Isabela Mares 162
9 Forecasting stock market movements using Google Trend searches 2019 · Empirical Economics · Melody Huang 157
10 Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction 2018 · Princeton University Press · John S. Lapinski 136
11 The core voter’s curse: Clientelistic threats and promises in Hungarian elections 2018 · Comparative Political Studies · Isabela Mares 120
14 A House Divided? Roll Calls, Polarization, and Policy Differences in the US House, 1877-2011 2017 · American Journal of Political Science · John S. Lapinski 73
15 How to think beyond sovereignty: On Sieyes and constituent power 2019 · European Journal of Political Theory · Lucia Rubinelli 72

4,611 citations over 97 of 129 works (75% carry a count). 14 of 39 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. 2 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 39 4/39 0.10256410256410256% 12/39 0.3076923076923077% 3/39 0.07692307692307693% 129 97/129 0.751937984496124%
  • 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. 26 of 335 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 39 4/39 0.10256410256410256% 12/39 0.3076923076923077% 3/39 0.07692307692307693% 129 97/129 0.751937984496124%
  • 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.0102030400-1 Works 16162-10 Works 313111-100 Works 3939100+ Works 11110-12-1011-100100+WorksCitations

The 97 works that carry a count, by how many citations they have; the last bucket is everything above a hundred. The median is 11. 32 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 39 4/39 0.10256410256410256% 12/39 0.3076923076923077% 3/39 0.07692307692307693% 129 97/129 0.751937984496124%
  • 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: 5 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 39 4/39 0.10256410256410256% 12/39 0.3076923076923077% 3/39 0.07692307692307693% 129 97/129 0.751937984496124%
  • 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 2,7822,782BooksBooks 1,8291,82905001,0001,5002,0002,500Publication typeCitations

The 97 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 39 4/39 0.10256410256410256% 12/39 0.3076923076923077% 3/39 0.07692307692307693% 129 97/129 0.751937984496124%
  • 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 305305Science AdvancesScience Advances 291291Comparative Political StudiesComparative Political Studies 148148South Atlantic QuarterlySouth Atlantic Quarterly 140140American Political Science ReviewAmerican Political Science Review 8585Explorations in Economic HistoryExplorations in Economic History 7474European Journal of Political TheoryEuropean Journal of Political Theory 7272Political Science Research and MethodsPolitical Science Research and Methods 6969Contemporary Political TheoryContemporary Political Theory 6565Comparative PoliticsComparative Politics 6060Government and OppositionGovernment and Opposition 5959Political TheoryPolitical Theory 5959Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 4848Philosophy & Social CriticismPhilosophy & Social Criticism 4343Journal of Political PhilosophyJournal of Political Philosophy 41410100200300VenueCitations

The 15 venues whose works earned the most citations, of 57 holding a selected work; a venue none of whose works carries a count is on no bar rather than on a zero. 30 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 39 4/39 0.10256410256410256% 12/39 0.3076923076923077% 3/39 0.07692307692307693% 129 97/129 0.751937984496124%
  • 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.