Academic Ancestry

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Gerhard Weikum

German database researcherborn 1957

Supervised 1 doctoral student at ETH Zurich in 1996; Wikidata names Hans-Jörg Schek as doctoral advisor and lists 18 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 10 other registers.

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Gerhard Weikum, pictured

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Students1

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata18

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 27 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 26 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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