Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Simon Colton

British computer scientistborn 1973

Supervised 1 doctoral student; doctorate at The University of Edinburgh in 2001; Wikidata names Alan Bundy as doctoral advisor and lists 4 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 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

Students1

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata4

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 5 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 4 stated by Wikidata.

Theses1

Education and career7

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

Works1

2001 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?

What their ORCID record lists

The works their own ORCID record lists, as they claim them: shown apart from the record's works, never checked or counted with them.

ORCID is asked for the list when this part is opened.