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John D Biggins

D. Phil. University of Oxford 1976

Wikidata names John Kingman as doctoral advisor and lists 6 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata6

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The line above and below4 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.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 33 people: 33 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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

Papers in OpenAlex68

1976: 21977: 21978: 11979: 31980: 31981: 31985: 11986: 11987: 51988: 11990: 11991: 31992: 31993: 61994: 11995: 31996: 11997: 31998: 21999: 12001: 12003: 12004: 32005: 22008: 12009: 12010: 42011: 12012: 12017: 22018: 32022: 12025: 1
1976most in 1993: 62025
68works
4,083citations
30h-index
50i10-index

last at University of Sheffield

writes on Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics, Probability and Statistical Research, Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models, Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals, Avian ecology and behavior

the 25 most cited of 68

Coauthors in OpenAlex34

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OpenAlex lists 25 more people who share a work with them.