Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Joseph Silk

British-American astronomerborn 1942

Supervised 6 doctoral students at Sorbonne Université, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI, and University of Oxford between 2003 and 2020; Wikidata names David Layzer as doctoral advisor and lists 4 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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

Students6

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata4

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 30 people: 8 cited by thesis records, 22 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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

Sat beside the lineage15

jury member or referee, not advisor