Talk:Robert Spekkens
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WP:NACADEMIC notability
editWP:NACADEMIC Criteria 1 is satisfied by the subject.
Evidence:
0. His work has been highly cited: See his citation reports in Web of Science and Scopus. Please note that, quantum foundations is not a huge theoretical physics research field. His citation numbers are rather high in this field.
1. There are two existing Wikipedia pages discussing Robert Spekkens's work: Spekkens toy model and quantum contextuality
2. His work is considered seminal in the field of quantum foundations. For example, this article mentions his work on the Spekkens toy model and says that "In 2007, however, Robert Spekkens from the Perimeter Institute published a seminal work showing that ..."
3. His work is also discussed on many other Wikipedia pages, e.g., Bell's theorem, Quantum foundations, PBR theorem, Quantum Bayesianism, Superselection, Fungible information and so on.
4. He is featured in news articles in well-known scientific magazines such as the Physics World (e.g. this article), Quanta Magazine (e.g. this article), Nature (e.g. this article), Scientific American (e.g. this article).
- I've approved the page and added these sources to it. Cabrils (talk) 00:39, 14 April 2022 (UTC)