Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

John H. Seinfeld

American chemical engineer and atmospheric scientistborn 1942

Supervised 103 doctoral students and 1 master's student at California Institute of Technology between 1971 and 2025; Wikidata names Leon Lapidus as doctoral advisor and lists 6 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 6 other registers.

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

Students104

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata6

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 165 people: 103 cited by thesis records, 62 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex1,581

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

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Richard C. Flagan

    309 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Armin Sorooshian

    88 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Haflidi H. Jonsson

    75 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Athanasios Nenes

    65 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Matthew Mitchell Coggon

    64 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Paul O. Wennberg

    63 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    N. L. Ng

    50 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Jason D. Surratt

    45 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    J. S. Craven

    44 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Lynn Monica Russell

    39 shared works

OpenAlex lists 1,571 more people who share a work with them.

Sat beside the lineage152

committee member, not advisor