Deletion of Laurence Baxter

Comment: Fails . All professors publish. I checked Web of Science and (being rather liberal to err on the side of caution, meaning some of these publicaitons may have been by another "LA Baxter") found 24 publications. These have been cited a grand total of 174 times. The most-cited article was cited 31 times. The h-index is 8. In the last 5 years (2008 only partly, of course), all articles together were cited 4, 4, 6, 2, and 1 times. (For those not used to these kind of figures, this is all rather marginal and far from notable). ''Naval Research Logistics'' is listed in the Journal Citation Reports and has a 2007 impact factor of 0.548 (its highest IF in the last 5 years, my access does not go back farther). That ranks it 40 out of 60 journals in the category "OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE". The ''International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management'' is not included in the JCR and according to its http://www.ijoqm.org/ website started in 1995, so Baxter cannot have been an editor of this journal for very long. I cannot find out from their website whether Baxter was editor in chief, regional editor, or just member of the editorial board. In any case, the journal itself is not really notable. The same goes for the other journal. The only possible claim to notability left is the "memorial lecture", Risker has commented upon that above. Unless something more substantial is found, this is a clear delete to me
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Comment: I have been following this discussion, and frankly have found myself moving back and forth on this one.  In arriving at my delete !vote, although it's close,  I consider the subject, to fail each criterion of  as pointed out by
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Comment: Laurence A. Baxter of the State University of New York at Stony Brook is a published professor, see http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22laurence+baxter%22%2C+sunysb+OR+%22stony+brook%22, therefore meeting 
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Comment: The evidence in terms of citability is certainly weak and I am fairly sure that memberships in various societies mentioned were just ordinary memberships rather than elected ones. However, in addition to the memorial article in ''Naval Research Logistics''http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/53642/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 mentioned by Crusio, MathSciNet also gave another memorial article about him: Leitmann, George. ''In memoriam: Laurence Alan Baxter 1954--1996.''  Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol. 210 (1997), no. 2, pp. 417--418. It should be noted, however, that Baxter was an editor for both of these journals.  I downloaded the memorial article from Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. It does say the follwing regarding his work:"Dr. Baxter was internationally renowned for his work in applied probability and reliability theory. He published over 45 papers and did extensive consulting in this area. The results of his work on separately maintained components have been incorporated into a widely used AT& T Bell Laboratories software package for calculating various characteristics of system availability. Dr. Baxter also extended several classic theorems of reliability theory for discrete structures to continuous structures, using functions that he named continuum structure functions." The article does not list any particularly impressive acolades but it does say that he was an editor of several journals and other publications: that he "conceived of and was Editor-in-Chief of ''Stochastic Modeling'', a series of books published by Chapman and Hall of London from 1993 to the present". Other journals where he was an editor that are listed in that article are: ''Applied Probability Newsletter'', ''Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics'', ''Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications'', ''Naval Research Logistics'', and ''International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management''."   does mention journal editorships as valid contributing factors towards satisfying criterion 1 of  (item 3 in Notes and Examples). According to thishttp://appliedprob.society.informs.org/aps/news/apn18_1.txt, there was a one-day memorial conference in his honor at Stony Brook in 1997. Together with the two memorial articles and a lecture series named after him, I think this does pass , albeit weakly
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