Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

John Finnis

Australian legal scholar and philosopherborn 1940

Supervised 7 doctoral students (8 students at any level) at University of Oxford and Oxford University, UK; Wikidata names H. L. A. Hart as doctoral advisor, lists 2 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 5 other registers.

John Finnis, pictured

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

Students8

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata2

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 below1 step

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 9 people: 7 cited by thesis records, 2 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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