Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Robert Watson

British computer scientistborn 1977

Supervised 3 doctoral students at University of Cambridge between 2018 and 2022; Wikidata names Ross J. Anderson as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 3 other registers.

Robert Watson, pictured

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlex

Students3

Advisors on Wikidata1

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 3 people: 3 cited by thesis records.

Education and career2

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