Academic Ancestry

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Jim Cole

New Zealand volcanologist1941 to 2025

Wikidata names Robin Clark as doctoral advisor, lists 14 doctoral students, and lists 3 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and VIAF.

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Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Theses

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata14

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught3

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

    Alan Eggers

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

    Alistair Ritchie

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

    Scott Kelly

The line above and below1 step

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 33 people: 33 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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