Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chandra Prakash Kala
I don't understand why his employer profile lists him as an assistant professor http://iifm.ac.in/node/196 when his citation record https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EfLtwKIAAAAJ looks so strong. Anyway, I agree with Xxanthippe that he passes #C1. His Google scholar profile is a bit of a mess (the top-cited entry actually merges two papers and then the second paper is listed separately but crossed out) but I think the actual numbers with this mistake fixed (213 cites for "Ethnomedicinal botany of the Apatani in the Eastern Himalayan region of India", 190 for "Developing the medicinal plants sector in northern India: challenges and opportunities", then 160, 159, 143, etc) are quite strong; also several of these papers are singly authored so there's no concern of sharing credit. The reason my keep is only weak is that if one looks a little more in-depth at the citations themselves, something looks off. E.g. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=16735388895213266771&as_sdt=5 among the 213 papers citing his top paper, seven of them begin "An ethnobotanical survey was", four of them begin "Plants have traditionally been used as a source of medicine", etc. Is such a high level of copying typical in this area? If so maybe we should discount the numbers somehow
— User:David, 23:55, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:PROF (Wikipedia:Notability)