Academic Ancestry

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John McCarthy

Also known as John E. McCarthy (OpenAlex)

American mathematicianborn 1964

Supervised 2 doctoral students; Wikidata names Donald Sarason as doctoral advisor and lists 11 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 10 other registers.

Open the full sheetCiteData

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students2

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 19 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 17 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex185

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

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Jim Agler

    79 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Jon N. Marsh

    26 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Samuel A. Wickline

    26 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Michael S. Hughes

    23 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Kirk D. Wallace

    15 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Michael Hartz

    13 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    N. J. Young

    12 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Alexandru Aleman

    10 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Stefan Richter

    10 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Mladen Victor Wickerhauser

    9 shared works

OpenAlex lists 175 more people who share a work with them.

Sat beside the lineage2

committee member, not advisor