Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael D. Watkins
It's not immediately obvious from perusing Google Scholar that the subject passes, for example, criterion 1 of . On the other hand, he does have a respectable number of citations and is clearly not an anonymous professor without any significant impact. Comparing Watkins to the other scholars categorized in :Category:Negotiation scholars, his citation counts are comparable to those of Gerard Nierenberg, and better than Herb Cohen (negotiator)|Herb Cohen, Stuart Diamond, Leonard J. Marcus, and Ronald M. Shapiro. (This is just a first impression, not a definitive assessment, but if Watkins is deleted then those last three subjects may be candidates for deletion as well.) Perhaps an argument could be made that he passes , but someone would have to make that argument because it doesn't seem to be a ''prima facie'' case of academic notability. If someone wants to try to make that case, one good source of evidence, beyond the citation counts, would be reviews of his books in peer-reviewed journals (not in Harvard Business Review|HBR
— User:Biogeographist, 15:53, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:NACADEMIC||WP:NACADEMIC (Wikipedia:Notability)