Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Florian G. Kaiser

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The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure)‎ BluePenguin18 🐧 ( 💬 ) 19:23, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Florian G. Kaiser[edit]

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89.5% of this article's content was written by FgkaiseR5131, who has seemingly admitted to being the subject of this article. I will skip reporting this to WP:COIN since this user has stopped editing after Liz warned them of the COI policy on their talk page in December 2023. Google and Google Scholar searches do not return significant external coverage and all three of the article's references not written by Kaiser only discuss the Campbell paradigm, rather than supporting the idea that Kaiser has been significantly impactful in this area of social psychology. While this subject could be considered prominent with an h-index of 59, there is no external coverage to support this and the other notability criteria for academics do not apply (e.g., prestigious awards, fellowships, professorships, etc.). BluePenguin18 🐧 ( 💬 ) 21:14, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators and Psychology. BluePenguin18 🐧 ( 💬 ) 21:24, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Switzerland-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 00:22, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question. Does this subject meet C8 of WP:NPROF from spending a year as the editor of the Journal of Environmental Psychology? This is not my field, so I can't tell whether this is a "major, well-established academic journal in their subject area." Qflib (talk) 20:07, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

correction: Co-editor... Qflib (talk) 20:07, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It depends on the interpretation of "subject area," as it is the top environmental psychology journal, but it is not within the top 50 of Scopus' 2023 rankings of psychology journals. Given that subject-specific notability is therefore borderline amid a lack of third-party coverage, I would also be fine with moving this to draftspace. BluePenguin18 🐧 ( 💬 ) 21:36, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Although the Research part of the article is self-serving and needs significant trimming, I think this subject is notable and we should not delete a page just because it's improperly written or edited.

I see a senior scholar that has over 20,000 citations of their work, more than 9000 of which have been since 2019, as well as a single paper with nearly 2500 citations, as well as editorship of what seems to be the top journal in his subfield, I see C1 being WP:NPROF being met. Specifically, our guidance for C1 includes language like "The most typical way of satisfying Criterion 1 is to show that the academic has been an author of highly cited academic work – either several extremely highly cited scholarly publications or a substantial number of scholarly publications with significant citation rates."

I do see from this reference (https://conservation-psychology.com/researchers/dr-florian-g-kaiser-prof/) that he is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the International Association of Applied Psychology. ~~So I think he meets C3 as well (I'll put this into the article in a moment).~~ Edit: I see that APA fellow status is by application and does not meet C3. But the IAAP is an elected honor according to https://iaapsy.org/membership/fellows/.

I'm not at all sure that C8 has been met, though. Although this journal is "well established," I can't tell whether or not it is a "major" journal and would defer to others who know this area better than I.

Anyway, meeting a single criterion of WP:NPROF is enough to establish notability. Qflib (talk) 17:43, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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