Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shahzad Shams


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The result was   delete. L Faraone  04:28, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Shahzad Shams

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I do not see him as being more than a routine surgeon with publications in local journals. There are two cited publications in GScholar. One, from J Ayub Med Coll (cited in the present article as shown in http://academic.research.microsoft.com/. has 9 GS citations, another paper has 1. Unwisely accepted in 2011 from AfC   DGG ( talk ) 04:10, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
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 * Weak delete The article claims he is head of neurosurgery at Fatima Jinnah Medical College, a major medical school, which could be a claim to notability; however I could not verify that claim because he is not listed on the faculty page of that medical school. He does appear to be on staff at the associated Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (Pakistan). The hospital's web page says that its department of neurosurgery was only established in 2011, so it's possible that the medical school faculty listing is out of date, or maybe the department exists only at the hospital and not at the med school. For now, I don't find verifiable notability - and as noted by nominator his publications do not meet the standards of WP:ACADEMIC. --MelanieN (talk) 17:23, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment. Several of his publications are in PubMed, but don't seem to show-up in WoS for some reason – difficult to establish citation figures from this angle. Given the local nature of the journals, I suspect they're low, but these should be confirmed at any rate. Agricola44 (talk) 15:40, 25 June 2013 (UTC).
 * Delete. His most-cited publication in Google scholar, on anterior cervical reconstruction using titanium cages, gets 9 citations in Google scholar. By comparison, Google scholar finds that at least seven publications on this highly-specialized subject have over 50 citations each, with the top at 224 . I conclude from this that he does not have the impact required for WP:PROF, and I don't see much evidence for any of the other criteria. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:21, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
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