Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Alan E. Gelfand

American statisticianborn 1945

Supervised 2 doctoral students (3 students at any level); Wikidata names Herbert Solomon as doctoral advisor, lists 25 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

Open the full sheetCiteData

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

Students3

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata25

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.

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 173 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 171 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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