Neurotree

An example of part of an academic genealogy, a family tree, from Academic Family Tree (in this case from the Physics Tree), of four generations of Isaac Newton's academic ancestors and two generations of his academic descendants

Academic Family Tree, which began as Neurotree, is an online database for academic genealogy, containing numerous "family trees" of academic disciplines. Neurotree was established in 2005 as a family tree of neuroscientists. Later that year Academic Family Tree incorporated Neurotree and family trees of other scholarly disciplines.

Unlike a conventional genealogy or family tree, in which connections among individuals are from kinship (e.g., parents to children), connections in Academic Family Tree are from mentoring relationships, usually among people working in academic settings (e.g., doctoral supervisors to students).

Academic Family Tree has been used as sources of information for the history and prospects of academic fields such as psychology,[1] meteorology,[2] organizational communication,[3] and neuroscience.[4][5][6][7] It has been used to address infometrics,[1][4] to research issues of scientific methodology,[8] and to examine mentor characteristics that predict mentee academic success.[9]

  1. ^ a b Marsh, E. J. (2017). "Family matters: Measuring impact through one's academic descendants". Perspectives on Psychological Science. 12 (6): 1130–1132. doi:10.1177/1745691617719759. PMID 29149581. S2CID 44835903.
  2. ^ Hart, R. E.; Cossuth, J. H. (2013). "A family tree of tropical meteorology's academic community and its proposed expansion". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 94 (12): 1837–1848. Bibcode:2013BAMS...94.1837H. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00110.1.
  3. ^ D'Urso, S. C.; Fyke, J. P. (2017). "Genealogy of the field". The International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication. pp. 1–17. doi:10.1002/9781118955567.wbieoc086. ISBN 9781118955604.
  4. ^ a b David, S. V.; Hayden, B. Y. (2012). "Neurotree: A collaborative, graphical database of the academic genealogy of neuroscience". PLOS ONE. 7 (10): e46608. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...746608D. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046608. PMC 3465338. PMID 23071595.
  5. ^ Patterson, M. M. (2011). "Two streams make a river: The rabbit in Richard F. Thompson's laboratory". Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 95 (2): 106–110. doi:10.1016/j.nlm.2010.11.005. PMID 21111838. S2CID 34956906.
  6. ^ Soltesz, I. (2011). "The Brain Prize 2011: From microcircuit organization to constellations of brain rhythms". Trends in Neurosciences. 34 (10): 501–503. doi:10.1016/j.tins.2011.08.006. PMC 3392082. PMID 21917323.
  7. ^ Smith, G. P. (2011). "Stephen C. Woods: A precocious scientist". Physiology & Behavior. 103 (1): 4–9. doi:10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.12.027. PMID 21232549. S2CID 23118278.
  8. ^ Tebaykin, D.; Tripathy, S. J.; Binnion, N.; Li, B.; Gerkin, R. C.; Pavlidis, P. (2017). "Modeling sources of inter-laboratory variability in electrophysiological properties of mammalian neurons". Journal of Neurophysiology. 119 (4): 1329–1339. doi:10.1152/jn.00604.2017. PMC 5966732. PMID 29357465.
  9. ^ Liénard, Jean F.; Achakulvisut, Titipat; Acuna, Daniel E.; David, Stephen V. (2018). "Intellectual synthesis in mentorship determines success in academic careers". Nature Communications. 9 (4840): 4840. Bibcode:2018NatCo...9.4840L. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07034-y. PMC 6258699. PMID 30482900.