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The result was delete. Tone 21:56, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Mohammad Ali Besharat[edit]

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Notability. Lexy iris (talk) 21:46, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:49, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Iran-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:49, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, no independent coverage, is not notable. Alex-h (talk) 08:50, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Neither of the two sources are independent, an interview, and google scholar list of citations, I searched for more sources and couldn't find anything apart for a blog that has one of his papers in it's reference list, everything else is published by himself, ie his own papers. I can't find anything to suggest notability through WP:NPROF either.YBm2XrpCP (talk) 18:47, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• The Google Scholar list of citations is independent, and shows 3383 citations with an h-index of 26. Such a record would most likely attract a lot of "keep" opinions in an AFD discussion for a British or American academic, so why is it considered insufficient for an Iranian? Phil Bridger (talk) 19:33, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Would 3383 citations be enough? If you can link me to AFD discussions where physiologists only required that many? I looked at (an admittedly very small sample size) of random psychologists from List_of_physiologists and they all had 900+ citations on their highest cited articles over Mohammad Ali Besharat's 156 ([1][2][3][4]), List_of_psychologists and they all have over 1200+ citations on their most cited articles ([1][2][3]) apart from [4] but this psychologist has other awards and fits other notability criteria. Mohammad Ali Besharat's most cited article has 156 citations. However WP:NPROF doesn't specify a specific number for criterion 1 only that they need several highly cited works, and it does say that h-index is of limited usefulness. YBm2XrpCP (talk) 19:56, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • I haven't checked what difference it would make to the outcome, but please show some respect for the article subject by recognising that he is a psychologist, not a physiologist. Once again I must point out that it is unlikely that this silly mistake would have been made for an Anglophone academic. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:03, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
      • Ah my mistake I wrote psychologist then searched physiologist, I do apologise, I don't believe that his Iranian decent is relevant to his notability but correct me if I'm wrong, while there may be systematic bias towards non-anglophone academics, I don't believe it was the cause of my accidental mistake, I have corrected the error above.YBm2XrpCP (talk) 20:59, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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