Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

David B. Mechem

Researcher (ORCID 0000-0002-9166-9206)

Supervised 2 doctoral students at University of Kansas in 2025; Wikidata names Robert A. Houze and Shuyi S. Chen as doctoral advisors. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 2 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

Students2

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below3 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 2 people: 2 cited by thesis records.

Education and career2

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

Sat beside the lineage13

committee member, not advisor