Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mohsen Naghavi


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The result was keep. Star  Mississippi  23:38, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Mohsen Naghavi

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Google Scholar does show him as one of the authors in several dozen papers with hundreds or thousands of citations each. However, he is one of the several hundred researchers part of the Global Burden of Disease study, and each of these dozens of highly cited papers lists every possibly relevant one of them and thus having several hundred authors each, or, in some specialized topics, dozens of authors each.

According to his CV, he is currently head of the University of Washington's institute for health metrics and evaluation, which runs this and similar projects and is there included on all of their papers. This does not mean he has any special academic or scientific responsibility for any or all of them, any more than the Dean of the School would have if he insisted on putting his name on everything the school produced.

In this situation the ordinary WP:PROF guidelines fail. He might have been notable as a research before being an administrator, but this is not shown; our standards for being a notable administrator discuss only being president of a n institution or head of an independent school.

I am not saying an adequate article would be impossible, but this is not. I will gladly withdraw the afd is someone wishes to clarify the role(s), and can find good 3rd party truly independent references for his importance as an administrator that are more than the usual PR.

We've had a number of similar papers in the physical sciences for people who are just one of a group --usually I would have no hesitation in rejecting them as non-notable, but he might possibly be in a more important actual position than just member  DGG ( talk ) 02:28, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Academics and educators,  and Iran.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 04:53, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. He has huge citations for publications with many authors, as the nomination states. But even just looking at first-author papers he has citation counts of 3424 ("Global, regional, and national age-sex specific mortality for 264 causes of death"), 540 ("The burden of disease and injury in Iran 2003"), 469 ("Algorithms for enhancing public health utility of national causes-of-death data"), 456 ("Global, regional, and national burden of suicide mortality 1990 to 2016"), etc. I think this is enough to demonstrate a clear pass of WP:PROF. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:21, 1 May 2022 (UTC)


 * STRONG KEEP and Expand. He is widely interviewed by several major publications including The Guardian, HuffPost , WebMD , CNN , BBC etc. Moreover he has tons of The Lancet papers.
 * The article should be re-written properly.--- Signed by NeverTry4Me Talk 08:01, 2 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Strong keep, there is WP:SIGCOV both as an academic and as a public intellectual. I find it satisfies WP:SCHOLAR unambiguously.Ari T. Benchaim (talk) 17:07, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   09:23, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Keep Per User:David Eppstein. — Hamid Hassani (talk) 19:17, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. At a cursory glance, this might look like an article that should be easy to discard but the references unearthed as above are solid. It's a keeper. -The Gnome (talk) 16:10, 16 May 2022 (UTC)


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