Deletion of Pierre Desrochers

Comment: Web of Science lists over 70 publications, but many are by different people with the same name. After weeding out publications in botany, chemistry, and meteorology, I find a total of 90 citations with an h-index of 5. Of course, this only concerns journal articles and in this field book publications are more important, so I also ran a "cited reference search". This rendered a few more hits, all with citation rates in the single digits. Google Scholar is more generous, but I have not much faith in its precision. (For example, the first citation listed to "Research universities and local economic development: lessons from the history of the Johns Hopkins University" is an article on "Silica-based mesoporous organic-inorganic hybrid materials", which I find kind of unlikely; others are to "unpublished manuscript", which should not really count, etc). In addition, there are no other sources discussing this person. Therefore, does not seem to meet , , or 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF||WP:BIO||WP:GNG)

Comment: I can see no evidence he meets  or . He appears to be skilled and successful at public engagement, but having your ''research'' quoted in reliable sources is not the same as being the ''subject'' of secondary source material as required by #Basic criteria
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF||WP:BIO||WP:BIO)

Comment: Multiple national-level news stories specifically about his research is enough, I think, for a pass of #C7. The article is overly promotional and otherwise not in good shape, but AfD is not cleanup
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF)