Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saghir Akhtar


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Tim Song (talk) 21:19, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Saghir Akhtar

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(article for deletion submitted on behalf of the IP, below) tedder (talk) 19:08, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

This article is essentially an unsubstantiated CV. There is no suggestion as to the importance of the researcher or research undertaken in their career. Industry prizes are not in of themselves a measure of a noteworthy scientist, merely perhaps that they worked on one of that companies projects, were funded (directly or indirectly) by them, or attended particular congresses / conferences.

This is not in any way intended to belittle the researchers work (they may well become note worthy or otherwise), but is an effort to clear a CV entry from the Wikipedia encyclopedia project. There are indeed other web portals where former students or colleagues of this individual can 'rate my professer', and indeed a great many portals where individuals can post their CV. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.251.142.26 (talk) 10:01, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep First, Editor of a major journal, as shown by the JCR count for Journal of Drug targeting. This is one of the criteria for wp:prof, and sufficient by itself to establish the notability. The awards, though sponsored by drug companies are significant awards. I am not sure of the current standing of Kuwait university, but he is not only full professor there, but also at Cardiff University.  More important, his work is accepte das authoritative in his subject, as shown by the degree they are cited, found in  scopus: 107 peer-reviewed papers there,  highest citation counts 181,  128, 121, 109 ,108. There is no numerical cutoff, but even in pharmacology with it's characteristically high high publication and citation frequency,. H-index, a summary of this is 25: 25 papers with 25 or more citations--this to me is not as significant as that some of his papers have very high counts.    DGG ( talk ) 23:41, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  —David Eppstein (talk) 06:55, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep on basis of above thorough arguments. Anon nominator has minimal edits. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:50, 28 October 2009 (UTC).
 * Keep. Meets WP:PROF criterion #1 (significant impact in scholarly discipline, broadly construed), and criterion #8 (editor-in-chief of established journal). The subject has a high h-index of 22; and a total of 1,578 citations on GS. The journal he edits has a high ratio of citations per article, namely 12, which indicates that the journal is well established.--Eric Yurken (talk) 01:10, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
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