Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sovan Sarkar
irrespective of citations and h-index. The salient aspect here is that the subject is still a post-doc, the relevancy being that the work done in such positions is invariably carried-out under the close supervision of the lab director. In this sense, it is not his own independent work, even if his name is first on lots of papers (an aspect of the academic "authorship" culture) and even if those papers are highly cited. Rightly or wrongly, convention honors the lab PI here. It is likely this person ''will'' be notable for research results in the future if (1) he becomes independent (e.g. asst. prof.) ''and'' (2) if such results then continue to be produced. At present, I don't think we can conclude that  #1 is satisfied by someone that is still in a training position
— User:Agricola44, 21:11, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:PROF (Wikipedia:Notability)