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 *I didn't intend that comment as part of the AfD discussion, as it is starting to digress, I think we should stop the discussion there. In the case of Maryańska, it is clear that whatever the ""true"" citation count may be, indices are not going to help us in deciding about notability, so we should stop discussing their merits or lack thereof (an individual AfD is not the place for that). I just couldn't resist adding that final comment, because I all too often see things like ""only US journals are included"", ""other-language bias"", and such. It's just not true and all too often just an excuse to promote sub-par stuff. What is true, is that while nowadays Polish researchers (or people other former East-block countries) can publish wherever they choose, it was different in communist times, which may explain why she published mainly in this relatively obscure journal. Apart from that, I agree that AfD can be rather brutal at times. But so can peer review and I just hope that any researcher ending up at AfD has developed the thicker skin you need in the modern scientific environment... And we need to keep explaining that ""notable"" is not a judgement of the quality of somebody's work, but only an assessment of whether it is encyclopedic...   "