Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kewal Krishan (anthropologist)


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The result was   delete.   A rbitrarily 0   ( talk ) 21:55, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Kewal Krishan (anthropologist)

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Senior lecturer at Panjab University. Article cites 27 publications, most-cited article gets 28 hits. Dr. Krishan is also editor in chief of The Internet Journal of Biological Anthropology, but this is not "a major well-established journal in their subject area" as required by WP:Notability (academics) criterion #8 (article on the journal is currently prodded and I will take it also to AfD should it get deprodded). None of the other criteria of WP:PROF seem to be fulfilled either. Hence, non-notable. Crusio (talk) 07:13, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions.  -- Crusio (talk) 07:14, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete, per nom. Citability data not impressive, chief editor of a non-notable journal, not much else to indicate notability per WP:PROF. Nsk92 (talk) 12:02, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Fails WP:PROF. Salih  ( talk ) 13:08, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. His h-index is 9. We've kept articles from less well cited academics in the past. -- 202.124.72.62 (talk) 13:43, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Frankly, I can't imagine, unless there were other factors playing. In addition, I get an h of 9 in Scopus only if I combine two Kemal Krishans, one from Kolkata and one from Chandigarh. As the one from Kolkata publishes on nuclear physics and such, it is unlikely that this is the same person. If I limit my search to the one from Chandigarh, I get an h of 6 with 103 citations in total. If I do the same search in Web of Science, combining all "K. Krishan"s that work in the Life Sciences, I get an h of 4 and 46 citations in total. --Crusio (talk) 14:34, 20 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete. I get largely the same non-notable returns from WoS using the query "Author=(Krishan K*) Refined by: Institutions=(PANJAB UNIV) Timespan=All Years. Databases=SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A&HCI": 9 papers with citations 4, 2, 1, 1, 0, 0,... (h-index = 2). However, 4 of these are from the 1980s in the area of urology, so it's not clear that these are his. Nevertheless, these stats are nowhere near our usual values for clearing WP:PROF #1. I also note that both his own article and the article for the The Internet Journal of Biological Anthropology were created by him – if you check the links, you find that these basically form a little 2-page WP:WALL. I don't think his editorship of this journal is notable because the journal itself is basically not notable, as others have already noted above. Respectfully, Agricola44 (talk) 17:45, 20 April 2010 (UTC).
 * Delete. This gentleman may well become notable, but he isn't there yet. —Aetheling (talk) 22:20, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete no evidence of notability. &mdash;innotata 17:04, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
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