Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Alexander Elgart

American mathematical physics professor

Supervised 2 doctoral students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University between 2012 and 2015; Wikidata lists 3 doctoral students and names Joseph Avron as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 3 other registers.

Open the full sheetCiteData

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

Students2

Students on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

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

    Joseph Avron

The line above and below

    Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 5 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 3 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career2

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

    Coauthors in OpenAlex33

    People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

    OpenAlex lists 23 more people who share a work with them.

    Sat beside the lineage10

    committee member, not advisor