Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Ariane Mézard

French mathematician

Supervised 5 doctoral students at Université Paris-Saclay, Université de Lille, and Université Paris Saclay (COmUE); Wikidata names Roland Gillard as doctoral advisor, lists 3 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

Ariane Mézard, pictured

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students5

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

The line above and below2 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 8 people: 5 cited by thesis records, 3 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

Sat beside the lineage30

jury president, jury member, or referee, not advisor