Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bat algorithm

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This article is part of the following group of articles that I have all nomination for deletion (individually):

These article all detail research done by Xin-She Yang. All suffer from the following problems:

Most citations include Yang as one of the authors (i.e. are primary).
Citations numbers of the article look superficially impressive, but include many self-citations and even reek of a citation circle.
Articles have been created by Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Metafun, why likely is Yang himself.
I could not find any respectable overview books and articles describing this work as considered relevant in the field. —Ruud 14:21, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. My general belief is that much of the work in this sort of metaheuristic is junk science, but the high citation counts and numbers of hits for this topic in Google Scholar make clear that, regardless of that, it is notable. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:24, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. These algorithms form a large part of the currently growing research in metaheuristic techniques. It is obvious that the number of self-citations are high but instead of deletion, inspiration should be taken from the Grey wolf optimizer page and addition of applications of the algorithm under question should be encouraged. Majority of the work lies in applications using these algorithms.--Capn Swing (talk) 08:29, 17 July 2016 (UTC) This template must be substituted.[reply]