Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Jean-Didier Urbain

French writerborn 1951

Supervised 2 doctoral students at Université René Descartes - Paris V between 2012 and 2013; Wikidata names Louis-Vincent Thomas as doctoral advisor and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Students2

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 4 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 2 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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

Sat beside the lineage5

referee or jury member, not advisor