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Associate professor who has made a good start, but with an h-factor of 40 in a high-citation field and no major awards is not yet notable. A claim of notability was made on the basis that he received a Sloan, but that is not of sufficient status, neither is a career grant. Ldm1954 (talk) 22:35, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators and Engineering. Ldm1954 (talk) 22:35, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as WP:Too soon unless a coherent citation profile can be found. Xxanthippe (talk) 00:21, 12 September 2024 (UTC).[reply]

  What's incoherent about the one listed in the Authority Control panel? See [1]. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:52, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that's better. Xxanthippe (talk) 02:56, 12 September 2024 (UTC).[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Computing, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:27, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Re the h-index of 40. Database is a relatively low-citation subfield of computer science. Several recent ACM Fellows who also work on databases such as Daniel Abadi (2020), Peter Boncz (2022), and Xin Luna Dong (2023) all have an h-index in the 50s. 40 might be too low for AI/ML researchers but high enough for database.

I'm not very familiar with the standards on awards. My main rationale was that (1) universities consistently put Sloan Research Fellowships in their press releases and (2) within Computer Science, Sloan is more selective (around 20 per year) than other recognitions such as ACM Fellowships (more than 50 per year) or NSF CAREER (not sure how many, but definitely a lot more than 20 per year). PetraMagna (talk) 06:30, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]