Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Bill Roscoe

Computer scientistborn 1956

Supervised 9 doctoral students at University of Oxford and Oxford University, UK; Wikidata names Tony Hoare as doctoral advisor and lists 21 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 7 other registers.

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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

Students9

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata21

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 106 people: 9 cited by thesis records, 97 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career3

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