Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

David A. Evans

American chemist1941 to 2022

Supervised 8 doctoral students and 1 master's student at California Institute of Technology between 1977 and 1983; Wikidata names Robert E. Ireland as doctoral advisor, lists 3 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 5 other registers.

David A. Evans, pictured

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

Students9

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

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

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 13 people: 8 cited by thesis records, 5 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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

Sat beside the lineage17

committee member, not advisor