Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A. R. Rao

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The result was delete. Cirt (talk) 00:11, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A. R. Rao[edit]

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A. Ramachandra Rao a.k.a A. R. Rao from the Indian Statistical Institute, India fails to pass WP:PROF, hence not notable -sorry [1] kaeiou (talk) 18:24, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:11, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Based on the information provided in the article, and a Google Scholar citation analysis, he does not seem to pass WP:PROF. He has a total of 571 citations, and an h-index of 13. His most widely cited paper has 55 citations. A solid record, but unfortunately not enough to pass WP:PROF, unless I am missing something important that is not included in or linked to the article.--Eric Yurken (talk) 01:06, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment a total of 571 citations looks high - may be added with same name. An article with 39 is the highest among all his papers. Thanks.--kaeiou (talk) 02:06, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:06, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Common name. Hard to sort out GS citations. Xxanthippe (talk) 06:34, 16 February 2010 (UTC).[reply]
- Common name - how about serching with Graph Theory along with his name? Thanks. --kaeiou (talk) 12:46, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the suggestion. I did the search myself with "graph" and got a GS h index of around 10: not too impressive. Xxanthippe (talk) 01:21, 17 February 2010 (UTC).[reply]

- - Comment You did not give your vote. ---kaeiou (talk) 01:35, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Both the article and Google scholar suggest he's just an ordinary professional mathematician. The low Erdős number makes him interesting but this is explicitly excluded as a indication of notability by Note 7 of WP:PROF. StAnselm (talk) 08:21, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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