Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Ho (oceanographer)


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) ─ The Aafī   (talk)|undefined  18:14, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

David Ho (oceanographer)

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Fails the criteria either for academics or business people  HighKing++ 19:36, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:01, 28 March 2021 (UTC)


 * comment the MA profile shows a decent number of publications and citations, with 100 publications and 3500 citations in a presumably low citation field he seems to be either close or above the bar for WP:NPROF. Adding this to the media coverage the bamboo bikes have generated, he could probably pass the bar (article in NYT, SFGate etc). --hroest 02:36, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment. This is actually a surprisingly highly-cited field. Per Scopus metrics of Dr. Ho and all 150 of his coauthors (with more than 15 pubs):
 * Total citations: average: 4487, median: 2458, Ho: 2464.
 * Total papers: avg: 84, med: 67, H: 60.
 * h-index: avg: 30, med: 26, H: 26.
 * Top 5 highest citations: 1st: avg: 579, med: 387, H: 388. 2nd: avg: 379, med: 180, H: 326. 3rd: avg: 252, med: 144, H: 193. 4th: avg: 203, med: 131, H: 93. 5th: avg: 171, med: 99, H: 83. JoelleJay (talk) 04:35, 29 March 2021 (UTC)


 * keep, given above analysis by JoelleJay and Hannes Röst, the article may be kept per NPROF. Kirtos67 (talk) 16:49, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. I agree with the above users, the hundreds of citations of his work meet the NPROF criteria of "significant impact in their scholarly discipline". Furthermore, his involvement with the Bamboo Bike Project constitutes "substantial impact outside academia in their academic capacity". I would suggest including here more information and sources related to the Bamboo Bike Project which mention David Ho (there are more more than a few). The Bamboo Bike Project is undergoing its own AFD discussion, that content could be partially merged into David Ho's article. --Alan Islas (talk) 04:22, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. The citation record (under "David T. Ho") looks good enough for WP:PROF to me, and the coverage of his bamboo bike side project adds some interest and saves this from being purely "keep because numbers are big". —David Eppstein (talk) 06:20, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep: . I agree with the above users, the hundreds of citations of his work meet the NPROF criteria; the lad has a big future in climate change, methinks. --Whiteguru (talk) 10:24, 5 April 2021 (UTC)


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