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An academic, or scientific, genealogy
Genealogy
Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members...

, organizes a family tree

Family tree

A family tree, or pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. The more detailed family trees used in medicine, genealogy, and social work are known as genograms.-Family tree representations:...

of scientists and scholars according to dissertation supervision

Doctoral advisor

A doctoral advisor is an advanced member of a university faculty whose role is to guide a graduate student who is a candidate for a doctorate degree, helping them select coursework, as well as shaping, refining and directing the students' choice of sub-discipline...

relationships.

The academic lineage or academic ancestry of someone is a chain of professors who have served as thesis advisors of each other, ending with the person in question. Many genealogical

Genealogy

Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members...

terms are often recast in terms of academic lineages, so one may speak of academic descendants, children, siblings, etc.

This is an informal concept, used mostly for amusement of academics and students. However, there are sites such as the Mathematics Genealogy Project

Mathematics Genealogy Project

The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a web-based database for the academic genealogy of mathematicians. As of September, 2010, it contained information on approximately 145,000 mathematical scientists who contribute to "research-level mathematics"...

devoted to documenting academic lineages for specific subject areas. However, not all the links recorded in databases of this type are formal advisor-advisee relationships; for instance, the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

did not require a formal doctoral thesis until 1919, and academic genealogies that include earlier Cambridge students tend to substitute an equivalent mentor.

Genealogies

Academic genealogy of chemists
Academic genealogy of computer scientists
Academic genealogy of computer scientists
The following is an academic genealogy of computer scientists and is constructed by following the pedigree of thesis advisors.- France :Many French computer scientists worked at the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control ....
Mathematics Genealogy Project
Mathematics Genealogy Project
The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a web-based database for the academic genealogy of mathematicians. As of September, 2010, it contained information on approximately 145,000 mathematical scientists who contribute to "research-level mathematics"...
Academic genealogy of theoretical physicists

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