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Academic Ancestry

academicancestry.orgReference management & literature discovery

No liveness check has reached it yet; it has been in the index since 10 Oct 2026. How this is checked

Academic Ancestry is a web tool for exploring academic genealogy. Users can search researchers and visualize who taught them, whom they taught, and which people examined the theses connecting them, using data from millions of theses and Wikidata advisor statements.

Inferred · not functionally tested

FreeWebCloud-managed
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Overview

6 features

Purpose: Tracing academic mentorship and research lineages across researchers, institutions, theses, and sources.

Inferred · not functionally tested

Audience: researchers, students, and academics

Inferred · not functionally tested

Functions: Unknown

Interfaces: API: unknown · MCP: unknown · CLI: unknown · Self-hosting: unknown

Recorded constraints: pricing: free · license: Proprietary · platforms: WEB · deployment: browser, cloud_managed

Constraint provenance is unknown; confirm requirements with the publisher.

Record sources: academicancestry.org. These links do not verify the individual claims.

Academic Ancestry is a Reference management & literature discovery project. Inferred · not functionally tested: It focuses on tracing academic mentorship and research lineages across researchers, institutions, theses, and sources. Inferred · not functionally tested: Academic Ancestry is a consumer product aimed at researchers, students, and academics. Basis unknown · not verified: Academic Ancestry is free to use. Basis unknown · not verified: It ships for the web.

Inferred · not functionally tested: Key capabilities include researcher search, academic genealogy, and mentorship mapping.

Summary written by a language model from the project’s public pages.

Tasks: Inferred · not functionally tested

  • Researcher search
  • Academic genealogy
  • Mentorship mapping
  • Thesis examination links
  • Researcher networks
  • Institution browsing

Topics: Inferred · not functionally tested

Tags
academic-genealogyresearch-lineagesthesis-advisorsscholarly-discovery

JSON profile · Text profile · Access guide

Built with & integrations

Framework
React
Hosting
AWS
Runs on
BrowserCloud-managed
Detected from
AWS
x-amz-cf-id header · x-amz-cf-pop header · via header
React
__remixManifest in the HTML

Trust & compliance

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Indexing history

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What PulseGate has recorded for this listing

  1. Indexed10 Oct · 13:46 UTC
    Show HN: Academic Ancestry seen via Hacker News firehose (Algolia)
    Source: Hacker News firehose (Algolia) · Open

Frequently asked questions about Academic Ancestry

What does Academic Ancestry do?
Inferred · not functionally tested: Academic Ancestry focuses on tracing academic mentorship and research lineages across researchers, institutions, theses, and sources. It is catalogued under Reference management & literature discovery on PulseGate.
Who is Academic Ancestry for?
Inferred · not functionally tested: Academic Ancestry is a consumer product built for researchers, students, and academics.
Does Academic Ancestry have a free plan?
Basis unknown · not verified: Yes — Academic Ancestry is free to use.
What platforms does Academic Ancestry run on?
Basis unknown · not verified: Academic Ancestry runs on the web.
Is Academic Ancestry still maintained?
Unverified. Academic Ancestry has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.
What projects are similar to Academic Ancestry?
Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include crs-reports, Quollect : Reading Log, and gustapp.crs-reportsQuollect : Reading Loggustapp

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