Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John F. Ashton
Citations (including those of his religious publications) in Google Scholar are 35, 34, 32, 12, 11, 8, 6, 5, 4, 4, 2... with an h-index of 6. This is not remotely enough to pass rof#C1 in the highly cited field of life sciences. I note that Ashton sometimes credits himself with a PhD in the author lists of the science papers he publishes. This is strictly correct, but his PhD is in theology, not science. There is a claim that he was elected a member of RACI in 1992. I have been unable to verify this as it is behind a pay-wall but, if it is correct, it is strange because he only achieved a publication record after that time. As noted above he does not hold the highest rank in that society and, anyway, it is questionable if RACI is a prominent enough society to give an automatic pass of rof#C3. I conclude that he fails all of rof. The only possibility of notability may be found through uthor in the topic of fringe religion. However, even here, his GS cites are miniscule many being to a book he has edited. Most of the sources that an enthusiastic editor has been adding to the article are so marginal as to be practically worthless
— User:Xxanthippe, 03:36, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Stance: delete
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