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Robert Gibbons

Also known as Robert S. Gibbons (OpenAlex)

Economistborn 1958

Supervised 17 doctoral students (18 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names David M. Kreps and Robert B. Wilson as doctoral advisors and lists 18 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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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

Students18

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata18

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 39 people: 18 cited by thesis records, 21 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex73

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Kevin J. Murphy

    10 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    George P. Baker

    10 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Richard T Holden

    9 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Michael Powell

    9 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Lawrence F. Katz

    8 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Michael Waldman

    8 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Leigh Thompson

    4 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Max H. Bazerman

    4 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Rebecca M. Henderson

    3 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Manuel Grieder

    3 shared works

OpenAlex lists 63 more people who share a work with them.