Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shivendu Ranjan
as there is no evidence that the subject meets .  Citation count not good enough to pass #C1.  Publishing books (even with good publishers) is not a notable feat in itself.  The book that the article claims to have been adopted by several universities around the world, is one that is part of https://www.springer.com/series/8380?detailsPage=titles ''Sustainable Agricultural Reviews'', a book series. However, it seems that Ranjan has only co-edited some volumes in this series, and the actual series editor is a different person.  The claim that Ranjan is the first Indian to have published in this book series is also a dubious one since his co-author is also Indian.  Being an associate editor of ''Environmental Chemistry Letters'' is also not good enough for #C8, which requires the subject to be the editor-in-chief (other journals cited in the article feel like borderline predatory journals to me).  Other categories of  don't seem to be applicable. Most of the newspaper articles cited in the main article are not directly related to the subject, and apart from this http://www.jagran.com/bihar/saran-six-books-written-by-shivendu-15727378.html brief article in the ''Dainik Jagran'' that borders on being a hagiography of the subject, there's no real coverage for .   perhaps. — Stringy Acid
— [[User talk:Stringy Acid|talk]]), 08:19, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
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