Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Derek Abbott

British-Australian physicist and engineerborn 1960

Wikidata names Bruce R. Davis and Kamran Eshraghian as doctoral advisors, lists 42 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 9 other registers.

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Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the marksstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata42

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 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 46 people: 46 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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