Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brian Christie (neuroscientist)


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The result was   keep. Stifle (talk) 11:24, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Brian Christie (neuroscientist)

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Written by User:Brianchristie, this article is on non-notable Canadian associate professor. He has an h-index of about 27, and is an author on papers with high citation counts, but almost always not as the first author. Taking only those papers on which he is first author, his h-index is about 14. The claim to notability stated in the article is that his "research shows that exercise not only promotes adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus, but also enhances synaptic plasticity in the neurocampus." It is my contention that he was a junior contributor to these results, and by no means is that enough for a Wikipedia article. Prodded by User:Scott MacDonald, deprodded by User:DGG. Abductive (reasoning) 23:06, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per the deprodding by DGG. An h-index of 14 or 27 is enough for me; 9 or 10 is my usual cut-off. Bearian (talk) 13:56, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
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 * Keep. Top GS cites 1118,889,337 etc. Clear pass of WP:Prof on cites. Xxanthippe (talk) 00:11, 17 July 2010 (UTC).
 * Not first author. Abductive  (reasoning) 01:07, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The most important author (in the sense of notability) in this discipline is the *last* name not the *first*...
 * Well, he's not last author on most of those either. He's very much a tag-along. This field has very high cite numbers. For example Henriette van Praag, the lead author on the 1118 cite paper, has an h of about 22. Fred H. Gage, the last author, has an h-index of about 130.  Abductive  (reasoning) 09:43, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:25, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * keep per Xxanthippe. Pete.Hurd (talk) 03:12, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep passes WP:PROF.  Mauler90  talk 04:09, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
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