Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Aleksei M. Kuzmin

Russian mineralogist, Tomsk Polytechnic Institute, Tomsk1891 to 1980

Wikidata names Mikhail Usov as doctoral advisor, lists 2 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata.

How to read the marksstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlex

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata2

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

    Q17426663

    born 1915

The line above and below3 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 2 people: 2 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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