Neurotree

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).

[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] The founders of the initial trees, including Neurotree, populated them from published sources, such as ProQuest.

The data in Academic Family Tree are owned by the nonprofit academictree.org, but they are shared under the Creative Commons License (CC-BY 3.0).

[15] In November 2016, David received funding for Academic Family Tree from the National Science Foundation (NSF) SciSIP Program.

[17] Marsh (2017) pointed out that information for Neurotree and Academic Family Tree is provided by volunteers and it is not formally peer-reviewed.

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