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Google Scholar shows 1 number. TrackImpact captures 20+.

Academic citations, media mentions, regulatory comments, congressional hearings, federal policy documents, state laws, think-tank citations, op-ed syndication — we pull from 20+ corpora so every piece of impact your work has had is in one place.

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Google Scholar
1,988
citations — one number
TrackImpact
2,973
impacts across 20+ corpora
Same scholar, same week. Scholar shows academic citations only. TrackImpact also surfaces 985 impacts Scholar can’t see — the policy citations, the media coverage, the testimony that actually moves your field.

What Scholar misses

Open /by-corpus and see every source we’ve checked, with a count next to each. Scholar shows 1,988; we show where every one of 2,973 impacts landed — and let you drill into each row to see the underlying citations.

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Media mentions (newspapers, magazines, broadcast)970
OpenAlex citations733
Semantic Scholar citations559
Academic uses of your data / work156
Regulatory comments referencing your work72
Congressional hearings & testimony61
Federal policy documents (rules, RIAs, EOs)17
Think tanks using your data15
State laws adopting your approach8
Op-ed syndication clusters, podcasts, court filings, books…382
Each row clicks through to the source documents. The 17 federal policy citations alone is a tenure-file talking point most scholars never know exists.

Forward an email, capture an activity

Get a speaking invite at your Stanford address? Forward it to activities@inbox.trackimpact.app. We parse it with Claude, extract the event, the host, the topic, the date. It shows up on your dashboard, ready to share.

Auto-forwards from your Gmail or Outlook work too — set up filters once, then every speaking invite, every press request, every panel invitation shows up automatically.

mail.google.com · forward to activities@inbox.trackimpact.app
Fwd from: events@sba.gov
Fwd: request to speak at Small Business Administration webinar on May 28
Hi Professor — we’d like to invite you to keynote our May 28 webinar on regulatory cost-benefit analysis for small firms. 200–300 attendees from SBA constituency. Honorarium available. Reply to confirm.
Captured Activity
Title SBA webinar keynote
Date May 28, 2026
Venue Small Business Administration
Audience 200–300 SBA constituency
Topic Regulatory cost-benefit analysis for small firms
Parsed in 4–6 seconds with Claude. You can edit any field before publishing — or just hit accept and move on.

Or upload your whole CV

Already keep a curated xlsx with sheets like “Journal Pubs”, “Media Hits”, “Policy Influence”? One click imports the whole history. We auto-detect sheets, map columns, and dedupe against everything we’ve already pulled.

Patrick’s CV had 5 years of media hits we’d never have found autonomously. Upload yours: 30 seconds.

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Journal Pubs Media Hits Policy Influence
DateOutletHeadline
2024-03-12WSJOp-ed: regulatory budget
2023-11-04NYTQuoted on FTC noncompete rule
2023-08-19BloombergCited on EPA cost-benefit
2023-04-07PoliticoOp-ed: regulatory reform
2022-12-01NPRInterview on regulation
Impact count
1,823 impacts
2,973
+1,139
We diff against what we’ve already pulled, so nothing double-counts. Upload a .xlsx, .csv, .docx, or just paste a CV URL.

Find op-ed opportunities every Monday

Every Monday morning we scan the news for headlines that connect to your existing research, and tell you exactly which paper to pitch. Click draft an op-ed and Claude writes the first three paragraphs in your voice, hooked on the news, citing your old research.

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WSJ · 3 hours ago

Senate Democrats Float New Tax on Carried Interest in Markup

Matched to your work
“The Welfare Cost of Capital-Gains Realization-Based Taxation” · J. Public Econ., 2019
Topical similarity
0.82
Claude-drafted lede

The Senate’s carried-interest markup this week is the right fight, but the wrong reform. Five years ago I argued in the Journal of Public Economics that taxing capital gains at realization — not on the carried-interest carve-out specifically — is what actually distorts the system.

The senators’ markup treats carried interest as if it were a special privilege; in practice it’s a downstream symptom of the realization rule that lets every long-horizon investor defer tax on accrued gains for decades.

If Congress wants to raise revenue without a lock-in distortion, there’s a cleaner instrument: a mark-to-market regime for publicly traded assets above a threshold — the version I modeled in 2019. Here’s what it would look like, and why it scores three times as much revenue…

Generated in 5.2s · $0.002 per draft
Click. 5 seconds. $0.002. The first 3 paragraphs of your op-ed, voiced like you, hooked on the news, citing your old research.

Pitch the right journalists, legislators, scholars

Open any of your works and see who should hear about it — ranked by likely interest, with a confidence score and a one-line “why them” explanation. Then send a pre-drafted pitch from your DKIM-verified pm@trackimpact.app address. The outreach Rolodex turns one-off pitches into a repeatable promotion habit.

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JM
Justin Lahart · Wall Street Journal
Covers macro & capital-markets regulation; cited your 2019 carried-interest paper twice in 2023.
0.91 journalist
CB
Sen. Cory Booker office · Senate Finance
Co-sponsor on carried-interest markup; staff requested testimony on this exact paper in 2024.
0.87 legislator
LV
Prof. Laurence van Lent · Frankfurt School
Built on your data in three recent papers on accrual-based taxation; likely co-author candidate.
0.79 peer
From pm@trackimpact.app (DKIM-verified)
To justin.lahart@wsj.com
Subject Re: carried-interest markup — the realization story you covered in 2023
Hi Justin — saw your Senate Finance piece this morning. Your 2023 column cited my JPubE paper on realization-based taxation; the markup this week is the natural follow-on story. I’ve modeled the mark-to-market revenue numbers if useful — happy to share on background or on the record. — Pat
Find them. Pitch them. Track who you’ve contacted. The outreach Rolodex remembers every send so you never double-pitch a journalist on the same paper.

Surface “I told you so” moments

The most under-promoted moment in any scholar’s career is when a policy you’ve been quietly recommending for years finally happens. We scan executive orders, federal rules, state legislation, and major policy reports for actions that validate something you’ve already written — and surface them so you can write the “I-said-this-would-work” op-ed.

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This week · federal action
Executive Order 14211: Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting
Signed May 22, 2026 · White House · 27 pages
←→
Validates your 2022 paper
Improving the Regulatory Process through Regulatory Budgeting
Mercatus Working Paper · Aug 2022 · 4 chapters · 318 citations
This week’s federal action validates a paper you published three years ago. We surface it; you write the “I said this would work” op-ed. Section 5 will have the lede ready.

Built for tenure committees, comms departments, and your year-end review

Your annual P&T file, your public portfolio, and a year-end narrative — all auto-generated from the same data we’ve been tracking. Three shareable surfaces, one underlying impact graph.

trackimpact.app/p/pat-mclaughlin/policy-influence
Policy influence portfolio
Public page · share with P&T committee
State laws citing you8
Federal rules & RIAs17
Congressional hearings61
Regulatory comments72
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Public portfolio
Hero photo, works, impacts · the URL on your CV
Works196
Impacts2,973
Media venues50+
trackimpact.app/year-end?year=2025
Year in Review
1-page summary · Claude-narrated · PDF on demand
“This year, my work centered on one core question: how do we measure regulatory burden, and what does that measurement tell us about economic opportunity? The answer shaped everything from academic journals to congressional testimony.”
Best media hitWSJ A1
Top syndication cluster31 outlets
All three pages are live today — the policy-influence page, the public portfolio, and the year-in-review summary. One click, Claude- written narrative, the year’s best stats stitched onto a single page. PDF rendering is best-effort polish.

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