Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Lazarsfeld


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The result was   Keep (withdrawn by nominator) (non admin closure)  Sven Manguard  Talk  00:27, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Robert Lazarsfeld

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No evidence of notability. Sven Manguard Talk  02:29, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment, "R-Lazarsfeld" gets an awful lot of citations according to Google Scholar. Do you have an explanation for this? Abductive  (reasoning) 03:28, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Publish or perish. The man has been around for a while, so has had to produce a lot of academic papers. That in and of itself fails the guidelines set at Notability (academics). I checked the website, and I did a news and a general search on top of the scholar search. He has published a lot of papers, but every professor publishes a lot of papers. I don't know what to say, other that that notability tends to focus a lot on quality over quantity. Finally, as I don't see his CV on his website, I can't tell if he has any honors or positions not mentioned in the page. Certainly I didn't see any in the searches I did. Hope this helps. Sven Manguard  Talk  05:51, 27 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep. He has published a large number of much-cited papers. I think he is notable. —bender235 (talk) 15:30, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  --  Bduke    (Discussion)  03:13, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Can you explain how you reached the conclusion that he is "much-cited." I'm not doubting it or confriming it, I just want to know how you're determining how often he is sourced. Sven Manguard  Talk  03:30, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Look at the little "cited by" numbers at the bottom of each entry in this search. Those are fairly big numbers for mathematics. —David Eppstein (talk) 03:57, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Withdrawn You learn something new every day. Today it was h-ratings, and that citation number at the bottom of the scholar search. I never would have guessed that the man was important at all from reading the article though. Someone needs to rescue that mess. Sven Manguard Talk</b>  04:45, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. In addition to the very likely pass of WP:PROF based on the citation numbers, he also passes #C5 as the holder of a named chair. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:00, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. To put a number onto the comments above, the GS h index is 31, pretty high for a mathematician, so obviously a pass by a mile of WP:PROF. Xxanthippe (talk) 04:18, 28 October 2010 (UTC).
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