The result was no consensus. Eddie891 Talk Work 15:36, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
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BLP with only references to his own stuff. Is he notable? Rathfelder (talk) 16:24, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
Citation metrics, 163 coauthors
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For the purposes of satisfying Criterion 1, the academic discipline of the person in question needs to be sufficiently broadly construed. Major disciplines, such as physics, mathematics, history, political science, or their significant subdisciplines (e.g., particle physics, algebraic geometry, medieval history, fluid mechanics, Drosophila genetics are valid examples).limiting analysis to just cosmology is perfectly reasonable. I specifically excluded people who only were only coauthors with him on massive collaborations since they were less likely to be directly comparable (that is, within his sub-subdiscipline) and because they were more likely to substantially increase the average/median citations. But since as you suggest we should be evaluating with a broader scope (cosmology), I will go back through and update the metrics after adding in those authors.
We just need to remove the ambiguity by looking att he citations to the work other than the many-multi-author papers.That's a reasonable take, although from what I've seen of other cosmologists I'm inclined to believe average citations are high even outside of mega-collaboration papers (which is reflected by my initial analysis, which excluded those coauthors who only worked with the subject on mega-collab papers). I'm always interested in evolving my methods, so I'm going to tweak my scripts to give me the top ten regular-author-number papers for each coauthor. JoelleJay (talk) 03:35, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
Perhaps citations are high in this field because of the general scientific interest in the work? that would be scientific impact, which is what WP:PROF notability is about. The necessary analysis here is which journals cite them. There is also the possibility that the quality of work in this field is exceptionally high, because of the extremely elite people it attractsHow is this consistent with NPROF C1 (emphasis mine)
The person's research has had a significant impact in their scholarly discipline, broadly construedand
For the purposes of satisfying Criterion 1, the academic discipline of the person in question needs to be sufficiently broadly construed... Overly narrow and highly specialized categories should be avoided? If the average number of citations per paper is just scaled up from whatever we think is typical for our fields, that's not an indication that that field is "more important" or that a larger proportion of people in it are notable or more skilled... And I should also note that these papers still have a lot of authors -- I used 20 as a cutoff because otherwise the comparisons would be among a very tiny number of coauthors. So while 300 citations might seem high, it could be perfectly in line with what is expected from 20-author papers, especially if each paper has a high number of references itself. But anyway, we're supposed to be comparing within major subfields, not with professors in general, and within the major subfield of cosmology—even when excluding mega-collab authors—Pogosian comes up below the median for researchers beyond post-doc. And I definitely don't think there's consensus that associate professors are normally notable at major institutions. The Galison paper (which I could access from your link) is definitely interesting and gives a very good overview of how HEP collab papers were structured in the late 90s, although it is more philosophical than informative on how we should interpret authorship (other than to disregard alphabetized authorship on mega-collab papers altogether from notability analysis, which I would support). JoelleJay (talk) 22:48, 19 July 2021 (UTC)