Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Susanne Cook-Greuter


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The result was   delete. Greeves (talk • contribs) 16:33, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Susanne Cook-Greuter

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Promotional biography by, likely the subject herself. Many assertions of notability, but no real references to coverage in reliable sources. A cursory Google search is inconclusive, providing links to reams of what reads like self-promotional content.  Sandstein  14:47, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. I did a Psycinfo search, which turned up 3 book chapters and 3 journal articles, all in low impact journals. Even regardless of self-promotion it definitely fails WP:PROF. justinfr (talk) 15:21, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * comment zero hits in ISI WoS. Pete.Hurd (talk) 18:40, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  -- Pete.Hurd (talk) 18:37, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * delete I got 7 hits via PsychInfo (database: PsycINFO 1806 to July Week 2 2008). I'm not familiar with the robustness of this database's citation counts, but I found two of the seven publications had been cited (once each). I don't see any reliable sources demonstrating notable impact. Pete.Hurd (talk) 18:51, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. Yes, sorry, I left out the hit for her dissertation when I reported my 3 chapters/3 articles. justinfr (talk) 19:27, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * comment Her thesis, Postautonomous Ego Development (1999), (described in the bio as "a landmark study in the characteristics and assessment of highly developed and influential individuals and leaders.") has been cited 28 times according to Google Scholar. Her GS h-index is 6.  Google news archive search  returns 5 hits, which look oddly alike... Pete.Hurd (talk) 19:02, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, per Pete Hurd. Fails WP:PROF, based on the data available. Nsk92 (talk) 19:11, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per Pete Hurd. The article states that she's listed as one of the leaders of the Integral movement, but that passage was added by.... the creator of this article here! Nice circular reasoning :-) --Crusio (talk) 21:11, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete In actuality, subject has 2 hits in the Web of Science database (searching on "Cook-Greuter"), however only one of them is a research article (the other shows her as the author of the preface of an obituary in the Journal of Adult Development. The research article has been cited only once. It is difficult to justify this entry under WP:PROF, which would seem to be the appropriate test, because the subject has evidently been active for over 25 years (see subject's commercial website, click on "SCG-Background"). Further observations paint an overall picture of non-notability: (1) with the exception of those mentioned above, the publications listed on her commercial website are not published in mainstream platforms (i.e. those covered by Web of Science, (2) book chapters, even a whole bunch of them, are generally not notable for scholars (again, the WP:PROF test) because they do not describe new results, (3) doctoral dissertations are not notable unless they open up fundamentally new avenues of research (which most, including hers, do not).Agricola44 (talk) 15:45, 15 July 2008 (UTC)


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