Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donald Roden
If this were a starting faculty member with a record like this I'd be more impressed, but if the best we can dig up after 30 years is a single book with three reviews and 21 cites in Google scholar, an associate professorship, and mention in a list of a couple dozen faculty who've been at Rutgers for 30 years, it doesn't seem like a pass of  to me. #1, #2, #4: where are the citation numbers or other evidence that he is regarded as a significant expert or an important figure, or that his collected body of work is regarded as significant? #3: three reviews (actually at least four: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/446359) does not qualify a humanities book as a significant work, it is rather the minimum that one would hope for. And it's his Ph.D. thesis; what has he done since? #5: what distinguishes his work from that of other East Asian historians? #6: time-at-service is simply not a ''notable'' award. I'm aware that Google scholar may not be the best source for citations to this kind of work, but the other database I tried, ISI, gave even fewer results: searching for Roden, DT, only three papers came up, two completely uncited and one with only two citations
— User:David, 21:10, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:PROF (Wikipedia:Notability)