Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Douglas C. Rees

American biochemist, biophysicist, and structural biologistborn 1952

Supervised 36 doctoral students at California Institute of Technology; Wikidata names William Lipscomb as doctoral advisor, lists 1 doctoral student, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 5 other registers.

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

Students36

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

    Cathy Drennan

    born 2000

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 38 people: 36 cited by thesis records, 2 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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

Sat beside the lineage291

committee member, not advisor

and 91 more, all on the full sheet