Academic Ancestry

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Wendy Hall

British computer scientist (1952-)born 1952

Supervised 16 doctoral students at University of Southampton; doctorate at University of Southampton in 1977; Wikidata names David Singerman as doctoral advisor, lists 1 doctoral student, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 10 other registers.

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Wendy Hall, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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

Students16

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata1

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

    Mylene Melly

The line above and below4 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 17 people: 16 cited by thesis records, 1 stated by Wikidata.

Theses1

Education and career10

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

Works1

1977 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?

What their ORCID record lists

The works their own ORCID record lists, as they claim them: shown apart from the record's works, never checked or counted with them.

ORCID is asked for the list when this part is opened.