The result was delete. Consensus here is that the subject's publication record (and, more specifically, how often those publications are cited) is insufficent for WP:N and WP:PROF. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:21, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
The article was de-prodded, so I am bringing it to AfD. I don't believe that the subject passes WP:PROF. There are no significant academic awards/prizes, no journal editorships or editorships of books or special volumes, no named professorship/named chair positions, no elected scholarly society memberships/fellowships, no named lectures or other highly prestigious talks, and no publications in highly selective/prestigious mathematical journals (such as Annals, Inventiones, Acta, JAMS, Duke or something close to that). The only plausible grounds for passing WP:PROF here is based on citability. GScholar [1]. gives h-index of 15, with top citation hits of 129, 71, 37, 36, 36. That's not bad for pure mathematics bit not sufficiently strong in the absence of other indicators of passing WP:PROF. Moreover, in math GScholar significantly overcounts the citation numbers because it counts citations in arXiv preprints as well as citations in published versions of those preprints. E.g. MathSciNet gives Plotkin a total of 367 citations with h-index of 12, and with top citations of 55, 31, 27, 20, 19. For his top-cited paper (on Chevalley groups), Web of Science returns 35 citations, and Scopus returns 66 citations. I did look up Plotkin's CV [2] at his webpage. There is one curious item there. Among the conference talks for 1990 he lists "International Mathematical Congress, Kyoto, Japan". At first I thought that this meant the 1990 International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto. If Plotkin gave an invited talk there, that would definitely have made him notable, the citation data notwithstanding. However, he did not. I checked the IMU page with the list of all the ICM speakers for all the years [3]. There only one Plotkin listed there, namely Gordon Plotkin who gave a talk at the 1983 ICM in Warsaw. It is most likely that Eugene Plotkin gave a talk in one of the satellite conferences organized in conjunction with the 1990 Kyoto ICM (those talks are just regular conference talks and don't carry any special prestige like the ICM talks do), but in any case he did not give a talk at the 1990 Tokyo ICM. All in all, he is an active and well respected research mathematician, but I don't see enough here to show passing WP:PROF. Nsk92 ( talk) 03:08, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
The result was delete. Consensus here is that the subject's publication record (and, more specifically, how often those publications are cited) is insufficent for WP:N and WP:PROF. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:21, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
The article was de-prodded, so I am bringing it to AfD. I don't believe that the subject passes WP:PROF. There are no significant academic awards/prizes, no journal editorships or editorships of books or special volumes, no named professorship/named chair positions, no elected scholarly society memberships/fellowships, no named lectures or other highly prestigious talks, and no publications in highly selective/prestigious mathematical journals (such as Annals, Inventiones, Acta, JAMS, Duke or something close to that). The only plausible grounds for passing WP:PROF here is based on citability. GScholar [1]. gives h-index of 15, with top citation hits of 129, 71, 37, 36, 36. That's not bad for pure mathematics bit not sufficiently strong in the absence of other indicators of passing WP:PROF. Moreover, in math GScholar significantly overcounts the citation numbers because it counts citations in arXiv preprints as well as citations in published versions of those preprints. E.g. MathSciNet gives Plotkin a total of 367 citations with h-index of 12, and with top citations of 55, 31, 27, 20, 19. For his top-cited paper (on Chevalley groups), Web of Science returns 35 citations, and Scopus returns 66 citations. I did look up Plotkin's CV [2] at his webpage. There is one curious item there. Among the conference talks for 1990 he lists "International Mathematical Congress, Kyoto, Japan". At first I thought that this meant the 1990 International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto. If Plotkin gave an invited talk there, that would definitely have made him notable, the citation data notwithstanding. However, he did not. I checked the IMU page with the list of all the ICM speakers for all the years [3]. There only one Plotkin listed there, namely Gordon Plotkin who gave a talk at the 1983 ICM in Warsaw. It is most likely that Eugene Plotkin gave a talk in one of the satellite conferences organized in conjunction with the 1990 Kyoto ICM (those talks are just regular conference talks and don't carry any special prestige like the ICM talks do), but in any case he did not give a talk at the 1990 Tokyo ICM. All in all, he is an active and well respected research mathematician, but I don't see enough here to show passing WP:PROF. Nsk92 ( talk) 03:08, 18 August 2017 (UTC)