Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mehrdad Shahshahani
The MathSciNet citation numbers are actually more impressive than they seem. MathSciNet citation data is ''very incomplete'' for now: they only include References/Bibliography sections for some journals (but probably less than a half of the math journals), and only from about 1995 onwards. Citations in other journals, older citations and citations in books, conference proceedings etc are not counted at all. The better cited papers (70 and 56) are from  1981 and 1994; for a 1981 paper 70 recent journal citations is not bad at all. GoogleScholarhttp://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22Mehrdad%20Shahshahani%22&aql=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=ws give top citation hits of 228, 134, 96, 94, 52, ... He did not publish a lot, but the published papers are in pretty good journals, e.g. American Journal of Mathematics, Duke Mathematical Journal (particularly impressive, this is quite an elite journal), International Mathematics Research Notices, etc. So this is a serious mathematician. However, the five most highly cited papers are all joint with Persi Diaconis, a famous mathematician. For papers without Diaconis the citation hits are much lower. There is nothing else directly to point to, e.g. awards, journal editorships, significant invited talks etc (at least I did not find such info after a bit of google-searching). So overall, there does not seem to be enough here for passing . I may be inclined to make an exception on the grounds of rectifying geographical and cultural bias, but I would still like to see something more tangible than just the citation data
— User:Nsk92, 20:12, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:PROF (Wikipedia:Notability)