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Research intelligence for scholars

Your research, working harder.

A scholar-impact tracker that finds where your work lands across 20+ corpora — academic journals, news, regulators, Congress, the courts, and more — and tells you every week where a fresh news headline meets your old research.

What counts as an impact?

An impact is a verified appearance of a scholar's work somewhere that matters: a citation in a congressional report or hearing, a federal rule or executive-branch document, a court filing, a think-tank study, a news story, or an academic paper. Every impact links to the source document — nothing is counted that can't be shown.

What TrackImpact surfaces for one real scholar

2,531
verified citations on his public profile today · 338 works · 21 corpora scanned weekly

1. Tracks where your work actually lands

Most tools wrap one source and call it done. We pull from 20+ corpora:

  • Academic: OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar, ORCID, Crossref
  • Policy: regulations.gov rulemakings, OIRA reports, Economic Report of the President, Joint Economic Reports
  • Legislative: Congressional Record, hearing transcripts, JEC, govinfo (full Congress)
  • Legal: Court opinions + briefs via CourtListener
  • Media: 50+ news venues + GDELT global index + think-tank citations + syndication detector
  • Books, Wikipedia, podcasts, op-eds, blog citations, Fed Reserve speeches…

2. Discovers your works automatically

No setup. We pull your portfolio from:

  • Your think-tank bio page (Hoover, Mercatus, AEI, Cato, Heritage…)
  • Personal site + Substack + Hoover Daily Economy
  • ORCID, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar profile
  • Site-scoped Brave + Tavily for op-eds across 50+ venues

Or upload a CV.xlsx and we'll import every tab. covers 68% of curated profiles autonomously

3. Op-ed opportunities every week new

The differentiator. Every Monday morning we send you:

  • 5–15 fresh news headlines that connect to your existing research
  • Each one tells you exactly which of your papers it relates to
  • One click → Claude drafts the first 2 paragraphs of your op-ed for ~$0.002

Passive tracking becomes active publishing. Your old research keeps earning you bylines.

4. Syndication, surfaced

When your WaPo op-ed runs in 67 newspapers, most tools show 67 noisy rows. We cluster them into one row with a "+67 syndicated outlets" badge. So you actually see the picture.

  • State legislatures that adopted your approach (we track 8 in one scholar's profile)
  • Think tanks building on your data (15 in one scholar's profile)
  • Federal policy documents (Economic Report of the President, OIRA, JEC) citing you
Who this is for: Think-tank scholars, university researchers, policy fellows whose work spans journals, op-eds, briefs, testimony, and the press — not just peer-reviewed articles. If your work shapes policy, media, and public debate, this tool shows you where it lands.
Built with scholars at policy institutes and research universities.

See your profile in 5 minutes.

Magic-link sign-in — no passwords. Upload a CV or paste your bio URL. Five minutes later you're looking at your impact map.

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