Academic Ancestry

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David Drabold

American physicist

Supervised 12 doctoral students, 1 master's student, and 4 bachelor's students at Ohio University and Ohio University Honors Tutorial College between 2001 and 2026; Wikidata names Peter Alan Fedders as doctoral advisor and lists 16 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 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

Students17

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata16

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: 12 cited by thesis records, 18 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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

Sat beside the lineage4

committee chair, not advisor