Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

John Tobias Saunders

Researcher

Wikidata names Anita Wreford and Paul Dalziel as doctoral advisors and names Paul Dalziel as teacher. Linked to Wikidata.

How to read the marksstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlex

Theses

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.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

The line above and below2 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.

Education and career2

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