Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Kaushik Basu

Indian economist and academicborn 1952

Supervised 9 doctoral students at Cornell University; Wikidata names Amartya Sen as doctoral advisor and lists 5 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

Kaushik Basu, pictured

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

Students9

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata5

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 14 people: 9 cited by thesis records, 5 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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

Sat beside the lineage9

committee member, not advisor