Talk:Osmar R. Zaiane

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Professor Zaiane is definitely notable in several fields. Among other recognition, he published the most cited paper in the history of educational data mining. -- Ryan Baker, Asst. Prof., Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Associate Editor, Journal of Educational Data Mining, with over 200 citations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.237.241.98 (talk) 15:57, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If we look at the most cited authors in Computer Sciences by Citeseer as of 2010, Osmar Zaiane is not even in the top 10 000. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/stats/authors?all=true . I think that we should just delete this page from wikipedia. If we create a page for O. Zaine then, at least 10 000 other researchers from Computer Sciences deserves a page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.116.247.36 (talk) 03:03, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

CiteseerX, the descendent of citeseer, is not a reference for rankings authors. Their database is still very shallow and incomplete particularly due to the spelling of zaiane with umlaut. For instance zaane is the same. A paper by Zaiane et al. is cited 123 times according to citeseer but more than 480 times according to Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&sciodt=0%2C5&q=Discovering+Web+Access+Patterns+and+Trends+by+Applying+OLAP+and+Data+Mining+Technology+on+Web+Logs&btnG=Search&cites=8943299432605710396&as_sdt=2005&as_ylo=&as_vis=0). Microsoft Academic Search identifies 1169 citations for Zaiane's work (http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/190695/osmar-zaiane) and ranking him 225th in computer science (http://academic.research.microsoft.com/RankList?entitytype=2&topDomainID=2&subDomainID=7&last=0&start=201&end=300). Moreover, I don't think "notable" should be based on cumulative citations of produced papers. There is also the impact in the field, the awards, etc. (96.52.109.56 (talk) 04:01, 26 May 2011 (UTC)).[reply]