Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Matthew Shepherd

Psychologist at Massey University in New Zealand

Supervised 3 doctoral students at Massey University between 2024 and 2025; Wikidata names Ian Lambie and Sally Merry as doctoral advisors, lists 2 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and OpenAlex.

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

Theses

Students3

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

    Joanna Appleby

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: 3 cited by thesis records, 2 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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