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 55 works
1 Feminist demands and the problem of housework 2022 · American Political Science Review · Katrina Forrester 58
2 Black grief/white grievance: The politics of loss 2023 · Princeton University Press · Juliet Hooker 54
3 Does AI help humans make better decisions? A statistical evaluation framework for experimental and observational studies 2025 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Melody Huang 48
4 Equal Protection and the Unborn Child: A Dobbs Brief 2022 · Harv. JL & Pub. Pol'y · Robert P. George 43
5 Sensitivity analysis for survey weights 2024 · Political Analysis · Melody Huang 38
6 Infrastructures of decolonization: scales of worldmaking in the writings of Frantz Fanon 2022 · Political Theory · Begüm Adalet 32
7 Protecting the Integrity of Survey Research 2023 · PNAS Nexus · John S. Lapinski 31
8 Trumped by Trump? Public Support for Vote By Mail Voting in Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic 2022 · Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy · John S. Lapinski 30
9 Leveraging population outcomes to improve the generalization of experimental results: Application to the JTPA study 2023 · The Annals of Applied Statistics · Melody Huang 25
10 Liberalism and social theory after John Rawls 2022 · Analyse & Kritik · Katrina Forrester 25
11 Agricultural infrastructures: Land, race, and statecraft in Turkey 2022 · Environment and Planning D: Society and Space · Begüm Adalet 24
12 Higher moments for optimal balance weighting in causal estimation 2022 · Epidemiology · Melody Huang 19
13 Who Rallies Around the Flag? Nationalist Parties, National Security, and the 2019 Indian Election. 2023 · American Journal of Political Science · Jamie Hintson 17
14 Overlap violations in external validity: Application to Ugandan cash transfer programs 2025 · The Annals of Applied Statistics · Melody Huang 16
15 What’s wrong with neocolonialism: the case of unequal trade in cultural goods 2024 · American Political Science Review · Alan Patten 16

560 citations over 37 of 55 works (67% carry a count). 13 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% 55 37/55 0.6727272727272727%
  • 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. 25 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% 55 37/55 0.6727272727272727%
  • 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.051015200-1 Works 10102-10 Works 111111-100 Works 16160-12-1011-100WorksCitations

The 37 works that carry a count, by how many citations they have; the last bucket is everything above a hundred. The median is 7. 18 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% 55 37/55 0.6727272727272727%
  • 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% 55 37/55 0.6727272727272727%
  • 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 490490BooksBooks 70700100200300400Publication typeCitations

The 37 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% 55 37/55 0.6727272727272727%
  • 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 Political Science ReviewAmerican Political Science Review 8585Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 4848The Annals of Applied StatisticsThe Annals of Applied Statistics 4141Political TheoryPolitical Theory 3939Political AnalysisPolitical Analysis 3838PNAS NexusPNAS Nexus 3131Election Law Journal Rules Politics and PolicyElection Law Journal Rules Politics and Policy 3030EpidemiologyEpidemiology 1919American Journal of Political ScienceAmerican Journal of Political Science 1818Comparative Political StudiesComparative Political Studies 1111Harvard Data Science ReviewHarvard Data Science Review 1010Modern Intellectual HistoryModern Intellectual History 66Political Science Research and MethodsPolitical Science Research and Methods 55History of Political ThoughtHistory of Political Thought 44The Historical JournalThe Historical Journal 33020406080VenueCitations

The 15 venues whose works earned the most citations, of 35 holding a selected work; a venue none of whose works carries a count is on no bar rather than on a zero. 9 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% 55 37/55 0.6727272727272727%
  • 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.