Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Hoyt L. Sherman

American artist1903 to 1981

Supervised 1 doctoral student (14 students at any level) at The Ohio State University; Wikidata lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 2 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

Students14

Taught1

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

    Roy Lichtenstein

    born 1923

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 1 person: 1 cited by thesis records.

    Education and career1

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