Academic Family Tree Data Export

The Academic Family Tree is a live, crowdsourced project, that documents academic mentoring relationships across many fields. Data are updated continually at https://academictree.org/. This snapshot was taken on April 23, 2026

We welcome inquiries about this dataset and are interested in learning about any new results you uncover. Contact: davids@ohsu.edu.

This dataset contains key tables from the Academic Family Tree, including information on names/institutions of academic mentoring relationships and semi-automated links of authors to publications and US grants (NSF, NIH only). A subset of publication and grant links have been validated by human users. To save space, only unique identifiers are included for publications (PMID, DOI) and grants (federal project number), without other metadata (author, title, journal, principle investigator, etc). These identifiers should be adequate to link to other databases. Also note, author-publication links are broken into several separate files. These files should be concatenated into a single table to generate a complete dataset. Some additional details are available in the README.md file.

These data are associated with Liénard, J.F., Achakulvisut, T., Acuna, D.E. et al. Intellectual synthesis in mentorship determines success in academic careers. Nature Communications 9, 4840 (2018) (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07034-y). Please cite this publication in work that uses this dataset.

Funded by NSF Award 1933675.