  Ancestry and genealogy tree are proven tools to determine the lineage of any
person and establish dependencies among individuals. Genealogy tree can be
exploited further to gain information about the researcher and his scholastic
lineage which is of paramount importance in today's world of computer
technology. this insight into academic genealogy could be a way of helping PHD
students achieve academic socialization within the discipline, by making
explicit connections that may be influential. Awareness of his scientific
heritage gives the user a broader perspective of his own research project. This
paper also highlights and investigates how this academic network is exploited
by certain researchers using various visualization tools. It was observed
during this work that the credibility and influence factor is determined by the
various citations obtained by an author and to improve their rankings in
various forms, they tend to collaborate in their academic circle and boost
their citation count. A recent trend among researchers is to form communities
based on their academic relationships and rely on copious citations for their
mutual benefit. Tracing the genealogical relationships can be helpful in
detecting such communities and also create a more quality aware metric using a
lineage independent model for computation of author level metrics.
