Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Nicholas James Shields

Researcher

Wikidata names Chris Jackson and Sarah Louise Young as doctoral advisors and names Sarah Louise Young as teacher. Linked to Wikidata and ORCID.

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

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

The line above and below1 step

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.

Theses

Education and career1

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