Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Francis L. Collins

Professor at University of Auckland in New Zealand

Supervised 4 doctoral students and 1 master's student at The University of Waikato between 2019 and 2025; Wikidata names Robin Kearns and Wardlow Friesen as doctoral advisors, lists 3 doctoral students, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 5 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

Theses

Students5

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught2

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

    Euan Forsyth

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

    Hayley Sparks

The line above and below3 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 7 people: 4 cited by thesis records, 3 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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