Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kikuo Harigaya


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The result was   delete. Stifle (talk) 08:54, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Kikuo Harigaya

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No references to indicate that subject meets notability criteria as set forth in WP:PROF. Article most probably created by subject. Speedy tag removed by anon editor, possibly the same as article creator, but as there is no way to prove this short of checkuser, Afd is the only possible route to deletion. Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 05:34, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

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 * Delete per nom. Fails WP:PROF. The subject of this article has no extraordinary accomplishments. Neither are there reliable, third-party sources about this individual. Cunard (talk) 06:57, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions.   —Fg2 (talk) 11:58, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Kommentar Die Streichung empfohlen wird. --124.144.195.175 (talk) 12:20, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * コメント 即刻削除の蓋然性が高い. --I 2008 (talk) 12:42, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * translation comment: The needness for the prompt deletion is high enough. --Joyful 08 (talk) 10:32, 12 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.   —John Z (talk) 16:18, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. He actually has a number of papers that appear to be reasonably well-cited. GoogleScholar gives an h-index of about 13 with top citation hits of 77, 58 and 43. That is OK but for a field like physics not enough to demonstrate notability. The three publications listed as "books" in the articles are actually book chapters/articles in books, as his own website shows. No significant awards or honors mentioned either in the article or in the CV. Not enough here to pass WP:PROF, in my opinion. Nsk92 (talk) 16:49, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * comment I'm totally stumped as to why the AfD template in the Bio article has a redlink to this page, something seems subtly broken. Pete.Hurd (talk) 17:11, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per Nsk92. The link here is not red for me.... I am puzzled by the two foreign language comments above. I cannot read the Japanese (?) one, but the German one (from a Japanese IP) is apparently recommending deletion in fake German. --Crusio (talk) 17:21, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * how totally bizzare, it's still red, even after I force a re-load... Pete.Hurd (talk) 19:08, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * The link also shows as red for me, but when I click on it, it does give an editing window for this AfD page. Nsk92 (talk) 20:08, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * that's the behaviour I get... Pete.Hurd (talk) 20:31, 11 September 2008 (UTC)


 * weak delete he is an author on all 121 papers listed here? World of Science turns up a lot of hits for "Harigaya K" in medical journals that I assume are other authors.  I'm not sure how he stacks up against the typical physicist, 121 papers seems decent, but h-index of 13 seems pretty modest, some awards or honours would be convincing.  I'm inclined to agree with Crusio & Nsk92, that notability hasn't been demonstrated, but am prepared for more evidence should it come in. Pete.Hurd (talk) 21:09, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. I did some work on this subject last night, but I didn't get the chance to post. Basically, the Science Citation Index lists nothing for Kikuo Harigaya. At first I wasn't surprised by that result considering the index looks for mostly English-language publications and their citations. However, I also checked Google Scholar. I found a few citations here and there and verification of his English-language publications. For me, it becomes a tough call because I don't want to be unfair to Dr. Harigaya's work and impact. WP:PROF lists several notability criteria that don't seem to apply to Hiragaya. That leaves us with #1 and #4 -- The person's research has made significant impact in their scholarly discipline, broadly construed, as demonstrated by independent reliable sources and The person's academic work has made a significant impact in the area of higher education, affecting a substantial number of academic institutions. Based on what we have, I'm leaning towards delete. I speak and read Japanese, but I'm not aware of a Japanese-language search engine similar to the Science Citation Index. For me, that index is probably what we should be consulting. If new information arises that he's significantly cited in the Japanese-language community, I'll change my opinion for sure. J Readings (talk) 23:24, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * comment I wondered why the Japanese version is not considered for deletion. That Japanese article lacks much more than this English version. --Joyful 08 (talk) 00:49, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments Harigaya works in physics where everybody publishes in English. Only in some humanities -and not even all there either- do people publish in their native languages, most of science nowadays is published in English. If he isn't cited in WoS or GS, then that's a good indication of no notability. As for the existence of an article on the Japanese WP, I think that WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS goes for a different WP even more than for other articles on the English version. --Crusio (talk) 07:27, 12 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Weak Keep I consider the publication record sufficient.  h-index is a crude attempt to combine number and citations into a single metric, and the subsequent literature since its introduction has mainly been devoted  to finding something better.  It is not sensistive to people with a few highly cited papers-- the h=13 can mean 13 papers each cited 13 times, or 12 papers cited 200 times and 1 cited 13 times. In this case, looking at Scopus, slightly more sensitive than WoS for non-europeans, the two most cited papers have  64 and 60 citations (both with him senior author). l.  Such a publication record is not enough in some fields of physics, but in solid state, where publications are much more diffuse than, say, nuclear physics, I think its significant enough.  I put considerable weight on that a number of his publications, including the most cited, are published in Physical Review B, the top solid-state journal. DGG (talk) 22:46, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * keep Looking at http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-1079-2008, his publication number is 121, and the h-index is 18, more than that found in google scholar. That is enough. --Yoshio 2003 (talk) 03:06, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
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 * keep Look at the reference, as of September 13, 2008. Highly cited papers are:

1. 	Title: LATTICE DISTORTION AND ENERGY-LEVEL STRUCTURES IN DOPED C-60 AND C-70 MOLECULES STUDIED WITH THE EXTENDED SU-SCHRIEFFER-HEEGER MODEL - POLARON EXCITATIONS AND OPTICAL-ABSORPTION Author(s): HARIGAYA, K Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW B Volume: 45 Issue: 23 Pages: 13676-13684 Year: JUN 15 1992 Times Cited: 115

2. 	Title: FROM C-60 TO A FULLERENE TUBE - SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF LATTICE AND ELECTRONIC-STRUCTURES BY THE EXTENDED SU-SCHRIEFFER-HEEGER MODEL Author(s): HARIGAYA, K Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW B Volume: 45 Issue: 20 Pages: 12071-12076 Year: MAY 15 1992 Times Cited: 85

3. 	Title: LATTICE AND ELECTRONIC-STRUCTURES OF UNDOPED AND DOPED C60 MOLECULES BY THE EXTENDED SU-SCHRIEFFER-HEEGER MODEL Author(s): HARIGAYA, K Source: JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN Volume: 60 Issue: 12 Pages: 4001-4004 Year: DEC 1991 Times Cited: 63

4. 	Title: OPTICAL-ABSORPTION SPECTRA IN FULLERENES C(60) AND C(70) - EFFECTS OF COULOMB INTERACTIONS, LATTICE FLUCTUATIONS, AND ANISOTROPY Author(s): HARIGAYA, K; ABE, S Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW B Volume: 49 Issue: 23 Pages: 16746-16752 Year: JUN 15 1994 Times Cited: 60

5. 	Title: DIMERIZATION STRUCTURES OF METALLIC AND SEMICONDUCTING FULLERENE TUBULES Author(s): HARIGAYA, K; FUJITA, M Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW B Volume: 47 Issue: 24 Pages: 16563-16569 Year: JUN 15 1993 Times Cited: 50 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joyful 08 (talk • contribs) 06:30, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
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 * keep He is a famous reseacher in Japan. And, he has had the well known contribution for the web technogy development (Japanese page). This should be one of the third party evidence. --I 2008 (talk) 14:48, 14 September 2008 (UTC) — I 2008 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.


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