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John Edward Hopcroft

Also known as John E. Hopcroft (OpenAlex)

American computer scientistborn 1939

Wikidata names Richard Mattson as doctoral advisor and lists 22 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 10 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata22

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 297 people: 297 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex242

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

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Kun He

    46 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Jeffrey David Ullman

    23 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Avrim L. Blum

    14 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Ravindran Kannan

    14 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Robert Endre Tarjan

    11 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Christoph M. Hoffmann

    11 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Sucheta Soundarajan

    9 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    David Bindel

    9 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Liwei Wang

    9 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Allan Borodin

    9 shared works

OpenAlex lists 232 more people who share a work with them.