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James McKernan

British mathematicianborn 1964

Supervised 6 doctoral students (7 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Joe Harris as doctoral advisor and lists 11 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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James McKernan, pictured

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Students7

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata11

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 17 people: 6 cited by thesis records, 11 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

Coauthors in OpenAlex31

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

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    Christopher D. Hacon

    16 shared works
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    Chenyang Xu

    6 shared works
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    Seán Keel

    5 shared works
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    Paolo Cascini

    4 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Mikhail Grigor'evich Zaidenberg

    4 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Yuri Gennadievich Prokhorov

    3 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Kenji Matsuki

    2 shared works
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    Ivan Anatol'evich Cheltsov

    2 shared works
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    Ciro Ciliberto

    2 shared works
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    Hubert Flenner

    2 shared works

OpenAlex lists 21 more people who share a work with them.