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 46 works
1 Thinking About Strategic Culture. 1995 · International Security · Alastair Iain Johnston 1,867
2 Treating International Institutions as Social Environments 2001 · International Studies Quarterly · Alastair Iain Johnston 1,716
3 Is China a Status Quo Power? 2003 · International Security · Alastair Iain Johnston 1,583
4 Identity as a Variable 2006 · Perspectives on Politics · Alastair Iain Johnston 1,195
5 How New and Assertive is China’s New Assertiveness 2013 · International Security · Alastair Iain Johnston 1,051
6 China in a World of Orders 2019 · International security · Alastair Iain Johnston 426
7 China's New 'Old Thinking': The Concept of Limited Deterrence. 1995 · International Security · Alastair Iain Johnston 301
8 Is Chinese Nationalism Rising? Evidence from Beijing 2016 · International Security · Alastair Iain Johnston 282
9 Conclusions and Extensions: Toward Mid-range Theorizing and Beyond Europe 2005 · International Organization · Alastair Iain Johnston 275
10 What (If Anything) Does East Asia Tell Us About International Relations Theory? 2012 · Annual Review of Political Science · Alastair Iain Johnston 209
11 Strategic Culture Revisited: Reply to Colin Gray 1999 · Review of International Studies · Alastair Iain Johnston 202
12 Debating China's Assertiveness 2014 · International Security · Alastair Iain Johnston 181
13 Learning Versus Adaptation: Explaining Change in Chinese Arms Control Policy. 1996 · The China Journal · Alastair Iain Johnston 179
14 China’s Militarized Interstate Dispute Behavior, 1949-1992: A First Cut at the Data 1998 · The China Quarterly · Alastair Iain Johnston 174
15 Can China Back Down? Crisis De-Escalation in the Shadow of Popular Opposition 2017 · International Security · Alastair Iain Johnston 158

10,644 citations over 39 of 46 works (85% carry a count). 1 of 1 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.

What these filters select, over everything selected not what the graph divided by
Selected Academics CVScholarOpenAlex Works With a count
Everything selected 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 46 39/46 0.8478260869565217%
  • 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. 29 of 46 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 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 46 39/46 0.8478260869565217%
  • 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 662-10 Works 6611-100 Works 77100+ Works 20200-12-1011-100100+WorksCitations

The 39 works that carry a count, by how many citations they have; the last bucket is everything above a hundred. The median is 101. 7 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 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 46 39/46 0.8478260869565217%
  • 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: 1 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 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 46 39/46 0.8478260869565217%
  • 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 10,64410,64402,0004,0006,0008,00010,000Publication typeCitations

The 39 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 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 46 39/46 0.8478260869565217%
  • 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.International SecurityInternational Security 5,8565,856International Studies QuarterlyInternational Studies Quarterly 1,7161,716Perspectives on PoliticsPerspectives on Politics 1,1951,195The China QuarterlyThe China Quarterly 448448International OrganizationInternational Organization 275275Annual Review of Political ScienceAnnual Review of Political Science 209209Review of International StudiesReview of International Studies 202202The China JournalThe China Journal 179179The Washington QuarterlyThe Washington Quarterly 122122Cambridge Review of International AffairsCambridge Review of International Affairs 112112Naval War College reviewNaval War College review 7171The Chinese Journal of International PoliticsThe Chinese Journal of International Politics 5151Asian SurveyAsian Survey 3737SurvivalSurvival 1515Arms control todayArms control today 141401,0002,0003,0004,0005,000VenueCitations

The 15 venues whose works earned the most citations, of 21 holding a selected work; a venue none of whose works carries a count is on no bar rather than on a zero. 13 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 1 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 1/1 1.0% 46 39/46 0.8478260869565217%
  • 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.