Deletion of Alex Zhavoronkov

Comment: fails  and his business activity is not the ''focus'' of sufficient independent sources to meet 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF||WP:BIO)

Comment: Meets  criterion #1 (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8Icccp0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao significant impact in scholarly discipline, broadly construed). He may be getting started, relatively speaking, but already has enough for WP notability
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF)

Comment: Meets  criterion #1 (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8Icccp0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao significant impact in scientific discipline and scholarly discipline, broadly construed).  With 108 verified scientific publications in refereed scientific journals and the scientific, humanitarian, moral and humanitarian, economic, geopolitical, and existential significance of biogerontology and in silico and aging research, the article Dr. Zhavaronkov MUST be maintained (and perhaps developed further).  What may be needful is a collegial assessment of the importance of Dr. Zhavaronkov's scientific and other ideas, but that's not typically the forte of Wikipedia editors
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF)

Comment: I have concerns over  criterion #1. Nearly all of Alex's scholarly publications are joint publications, with as many as a dozen contributors. I couldn't find any examples of him being the Lead Investigator (I may have overlooked some). His books seem to me to be popularizations of work in the field (not necessarily ''his'' work, rather than scholarly contributions. This is also true of the popular press references, which may well derive from press packets and publisher propaganda, rather than from serious evaluation. In the business of evaluating candidates for promotion and tenure in academia, where I have extensive experience, these would be red flags. In fact, at no point in the article is an effort made to explain exactly what the nature of his contribution is, that makes him so notable. The company he founded seems to have no company (officers, directors, managers) other than himself. If the article ends up being kept, I would certainly recommend that it be tagged with the template: "like resume
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF)