Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Robert Frank

French historianborn 1944

Supervised 6 doctoral students at Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I between 2000 and 2016; Wikidata names Jean Bouvier and René Girault as doctoral advisors, lists 18 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, VIAF, and 3 other registers.

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Robert Frank, pictured

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 OpenAlex

Students6

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata18

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.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Thomas Gomart

    born 1973

The line above and below2 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 28 people: 6 cited by thesis records, 23 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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

Sat beside the lineage7

jury member or jury president, not advisor