Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andreas Zimmer


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The result was keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 10:40, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Andreas Zimmer

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Nonnotable scientist; no references. A Google search shows 20,000 hits for the name, but less than 1,000 with the word "cannabinoid" added, probably because of several men sharing the same name. Not every scientist who writes a few papers is notable; and if he really wrote more than 100, we need a reference for that. Shalom Hello 02:45, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions.   —David Eppstein 03:53, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. Two heavily-cited cannabinoid papers are among the first five found by this Google scholar search. —David Eppstein 03:55, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete not notable unless citations are provided. Harlowraman 04:42, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep beyond question--Google Scholar, which is not complete, the most cited paper in 1999 in PNAS, one of the three top general science journals, was cited 323 times . The second, in nature genetics, also unquestionably top rank, 262 times, etc. He has about 30 papers cited 30 times or more. This is very high citations and enough to show first, that the peer-reviewers of these journals thought the work important, and several hundred of his colleagues did likewise to the extent that they cited it. If you go back and check those Google results, you'll find that almost all of them actually refer to him. The article was inadequate, but everything was there in the linked web site or Google Scholar. I started to upgrade the article. DGG (talk) 07:03, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. European Professor, head of lab, two very highly cited papers. Medline finds 51 papers under 'Zimmer, Andreas', including high-prestige general journals such as Science (2), Nature & PNAS (several), as well as many first-rank specialist journals eg Nature Neuroscience, Molecular Pharmacology, Journal of Neuroscience, Cell, Nature Methods, Gastroenterology, Mol Cell Biol etc, including expert reviews. There may well be others under 'Zimmer, A' (184 hits), but they're mixed up with others of the same name. Clearly meets my understanding of WP:PROF. Espresso Addict 11:07, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep per Espresso and DGG. The article doesn't make it clear, but he does pass WP:PROF. Ten Pound Hammer  • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps•Review?) 16:30, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Google scholar evidence is sufficient of notability: hundreds of hits; google books seems to show at least 2 guys of the same name (the other seems to be interested in the history of Wroclaw/Breslau). Carlossuarez46 00:06, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep as per DGG and Espresso Addict research above. Tony Fox (arf!) 04:32, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * (er, ignore that last edit summary - too many 'delete's tonight) Tony Fox (arf!) 04:33, 30 July 2007 (UTC)


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