I didn t intend that comment as part of the AfD discussion as it is starting to digress I think we should stop the discussion there In the case of Marya ska it is clear that whatever the true citation count may be indices are not going to help us in deciding about notability so we should stop discussing their merits or lack thereof an individual AfD is not the place for that I just couldn t resist adding that final comment because I all too often see things like only US journals are included other language bias and such It s just not true and all too often just an excuse to promote sub par stuff What is true is that while nowadays Polish researchers or people other former East block countries can publish wherever they choose it was different in communist times which may explain why she published mainly in this relatively obscure journal Apart from that I agree that AfD can be rather brutal at times But so can peer review and I just hope that any researcher ending up at AfD has developed the thicker skin you need in the modern scientific environment And we need to keep explaining that notable is not a judgement of the quality of somebody s work but only an assessment of whether it is encyclopedic