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John Aston

Also known as John A. D. Aston (OpenAlex)

British statistician, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Home Office, and Professor of Statistics, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Supervised 4 doctoral students at University of Cambridge between 2018 and 2024; Wikidata names Keith J. Worsley and Roger N. Gunn as doctoral advisors and lists 7 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 5 other registers.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students4

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata7

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 11 people: 4 cited by thesis records, 7 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career1

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex249

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Davide Pigoli

    19 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Federico Turkheimer

    15 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Roger N. Gunn

    14 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Vincent J. Cunningham

    12 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    John Coleman

    12 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Eardi Lila

    11 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Shahin Tavakoli

    10 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Michelle Liou

    10 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Adam Michael Johansen

    9 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Claudia Kirch

    9 shared works

OpenAlex lists 239 more people who share a work with them.