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David Johnston

New Zealand natural disasters researcher1966 to 2025

Supervised 2 doctoral students at Massey University in 2021; Wikidata names Bruce Houghton, Chin Dew Lai, Nigel Long, and Vincent Ernest Neall as doctoral advisors and lists 21 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 6 other registers.

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Theses

Students2

Advisors on Wikidata4

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Students on Wikidata21

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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 38 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 36 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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