Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christopher Kaelin
The https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_vis=0&q=%22Christopher+Kaelin%22+OR+%22Chris+Kaelin%22+OR+%22CB+Kaelin%22&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 Google Scholar link in the article nicely provides a few alternative search queries, but adding up the results gives an h-index of only 13. Six papers are in the triple-digit range, but they're all collaborations, and in none is Kaelin the lead author. I'd have a hard time shaking a pass of #C1 out of this. Of the references currently presented, https://news.stanford.edu/news/2007/october31/med-blackfur-103107.html and http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2012/09/how-the-cheetah-got-its-stripes-a-genetic-tale-by-stanford-researchers.html are from Kaelin's employer, so they'd be fine for fleshing out content but they don't really indicate the world-at-large paying attention. The only independent source that goes into any detail about Kaelin's own role in the work is Ed Yong's piece https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2012/09/20/tabby-cat-blotches-king-cheetah-stripes-spots-taqpep/: {{tq|Christopher Kaelin and Xing Xu focused on the region that Eizirik had identified ... Kaelin and Xu sequenced the gene in Kgosi, a captive king cheetah ... Kaelin got in touch with Ann van Dyk, the woman who first identified that king cheetahs were a mutant version of the regular ones.}} Having your work written up by Ed Yong is a nice feather in one's cap, but in this case, I'm not convinced that Kaelin himself stands out personally. Without ''something'' else, it's hard to make the case that we need an article about Kaelin himself, instead of writing about the research in the appropriate articles (on genetics, developmental biology, reaction-diffusion models, etc
— User:XOR, 14:20, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
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