Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

John Townend

Geophysicist at VUW in New Zealand

Wikidata lists 11 doctoral students and lists 5 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 3 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

Students on Wikidata11

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught5

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

    Laura Hughes

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

    Richard Davy

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

    Samuel Taylor-Offord

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

    Steve Jenkins

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

    Zara Rawlinson

The line above and below

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: 11 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career4

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

    Coauthors in OpenAlex425

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

    OpenAlex lists 415 more people who share a work with them.