Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Luis González-Mestres
as not supported by a sufficient number of reliable and independent sources. Heroic efforts have been made by editors to get this article into a satisfactory shape (see the history). Unfortunately, it does not seem that the sources are sufficient to support notability of the article. The only criteria that it seems possible that it could pass is rof#C1: ''the impact of the research on the discipline as evidenced by reliable independent sources''. A search with Google Scholar gives 71 hits with around 460 cites and an h index of 13. The cites begin as 49, 34, 35, 30, 30...etc. At first sight this might qualify for a weak keep, but a more detailed look shows two insurmountable problems. The first is that, as far as I can see, only two of the 71 hits are published in good quality peer-reviewed journals. These are the calibre of journals that the scholars who usually appear on these pages normally publish in. The great majority of the subject's papers are published on the Physics ArXiv. This is a public repository of scientific papers. It's standards for inclusion are minimal, although the ArXiv does contain copies of excellent work that has been already been published in the standard peer-reviewed journals. As mentioned before, very little of the subject's work has been published in such journals. The second problem is that a large proportion of the citations that do exist are self-citations. These are not considered to be independent sources. For example of the 25 citations of the paper "Space, time and superluminal particles" (Arxiv preprint physics/9702026) only five seemed not to be self-citations (please correct me if this is not accurate) and this pattern seems to exist throughout the citation data. On the basis of the GS data it does not seem at present that there is a sufficient number of independent and reliable sources to confer notability. Web of Science data would be very helpful. General notability considerations are not enough to help either
— User:Xxanthippe, 00:19, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:P (Wikipedia:Portal)