Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marco Bove


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The result was   Delete. Stifle (talk) 18:46, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Marco Bove

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Non-notable scholar - no evidence of major advances in field or major media coverage Editor437 (talk) 22:11, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.   —David Eppstein (talk) 05:41, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * weak delete. Google scholar indicates a few dozen articles, several of which have >25 citations.  But agreed that there is no news coverage. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 08:50, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. It is not necessary to have major media coverage for demonstrating academic notability under WP:PROF, but there is insufficient evidence of academic notability here. No significant academic honors or awards listed and the citation rates are not high, especially for an active experimental field like neuroscience. GoogleScholar gives a top citation hit of 44, with an h-index of around 12. Similar results in WebOfScience. This is OK but certainly not above average. I do not see any other claims to notability mentioned in the article. Assisting with a textbook written by somebody else does not qualify. Also, in the staff directory of the Department of Experimental Medicine at the University of Genoa he is listed as an Assistant Professor not an Associate Professor as the article says. It is also not clear if he still holds an academic position anywhere (the article uses past tense in relation to the University of Genoa position). Does not pass WP:PROF. Nsk92 (talk) 11:52, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * FYI: An assistant prof is a higher position than an associate -- not that that in itself could establish notabilityEditor437 (talk) 13:19, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Unless Italy uses a non-standard academic ranking system (which does not appear to be the case), an assistant professor is a more junior position than an associate professor position. This is certainly the case in the U.S. and Canada (I should know since I am a U.S. academic myself), where there are three basic academic ranks, in order: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Full Professor (or just Professor). The article Academic rank confirms that Italy uses a similar system as well, with a few more ranks, but in the same order. Nsk92 (talk) 13:41, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I stand correctedEditor437 (talk) 13:47, 26 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete We have no h-index cutoff, but usually an associate professor is not yet notable--the likelihood depends somewhat on the university. More important than the count are  where the papers were published, and here cited.  The most cited paper is in Biological cybernetics, and that is only 146th among the 211 Neuroscience journals in Journal Citation Reports by impact factor--its apparently high impact factor of 1.7 is a reflection of what Nsk said, the very high citation frequencies of journals in this field. Not yet notable. DGG (talk) 15:59, 26 August 2008 (UTC)


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