Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Bruce Saylor

American composer and professor of musicborn 1946

Supervised 1 doctoral student; Wikidata names Hugo Weisgall and Roger Sessions as teachers. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 3 other registers.

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

Students1

Teachers and mentors2

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

The line above and below

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 1 person: 1 cited by thesis records.

    Education and career5

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

    Sat beside the lineage8

    committee member, not advisor