Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Jensen (economist)

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The result was keep. WP:PROF and good research from XOR'easter ~ Amory (u • t • c) 03:13, 3 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Jensen (economist)[edit]

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No evidence of notability, and no evidence that WP:ACADEMIC is met. All references in the article are works by the subject himself, and there doesn't seem to be much secondary independent coverage in reliable sources. Looks like an ordinary successful academic, but not one who has had a huge impact in his field. — Amakuru (talk) 10:58, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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comment I don't generally do academics, but I note that the paper on the cell phones in Kerala is hugely cited: GScholar shows over 1400 refs, and I dodn't have trouble finding it in books. Mangoe (talk) 14:06, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep He holds a named chair, the David B. Ford professorship. Google Scholar gives just over 5,000 citations overall and an h-index of 21 [1], which is respectable but not mind-blowing. A news search (filtering on "economics" and "Wharton" to remove false positives) finds coverage of his work by PBS [2], NPR [3] and The Economist [4]. All this adds up to passing WP:PROF#C5, probably WP:PROF#C1 and arguably WP:PROF#C7/WP:GNG. XOR'easter (talk) 18:48, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, also the New York Times (from when Jensen was at UCLA) [5]. XOR'easter (talk) 18:57, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Named chair at a top business school makes WP:PROF clear and the sources found by XOR'easter provide adequate material for an article. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:02, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Obvious Keep as a named chair: "David B. Ford Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania". Notable in his field. K.e.coffman (talk) 23:08, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Named chair at Wharton is obvious PROF pass. Agricola44 (talk) 09:44, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. per Agricola and others. Thsmi002 (talk) 14:01, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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