Draft:Alan St Clair Gibson

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{{AFC comment|1=The sources are primary, and thus unable to establish notability per WP:GNG. There might be some potential for WP:NACADEMIC, but as most of the content is unreferenced, any claims that there may be, require evidence before they can be accepted.

Please note that articles on living people (WP:BLP) require inline citations to reliable sources to support pretty much every material statement made, and certainly anything potentially contentious as well as all private personal details, and (per the previous point) anything on which notability depends. DoubleGrazing (talk) 14:11, 28 October 2024 (UTC)}}

{{AFC comment|1=The University of Aberdeen is a primary source, and the list of publications does not contribute to notability. Needs to address WP:NPROF. Dan arndt (talk) 08:14, 28 October 2024 (UTC)}}

{{AFC comment|1=Facebook, blogs and Amazon are not reliable sources and what he has written or said is a primary source so cannot be used to establish notability. S0091 (talk) 18:57, 27 October 2024 (UTC)}}

{{AFC comment|1=I deleted this autobiography and provided advice to the editor. The COI hasn't been effectively declared and if there is a further submission without a serious attempt to meet our criteria, I will consider blocking the account 14:29, 28 October 2024 (UTC)}}

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Professor Alan (Zig) St Clair Gibson was born in Durban, South Africa in 1966, and is currently the Director of the Institute of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.{{cite web | url=https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/a.gibson | title=Professor Alan St Clair Gibson | People | the University of Aberdeen }} He did his MBChB (1990) PhD (1997) and MD (2002) at the University of Cape Town, and did his medical internship at Edendale Hospital and a spell as a surgical medical officer at Grays Hospital in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa. He was a Research Fellow in Dr Mark Hallett's Human Motor Control Unit of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the NIH, Bethesda, USA (2002–2003) examining brain cortical plasticity and motor control outputs in clinical patients and healthy volunteers.{{cite web | url=https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2002-07-11-whats-up-doc-doc-doca/ | title=What's up doc, doc, doc? }} He has since worked as first Director of Research and then Head of Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Northumbria University in the UK, Head of the School of Medicine at the University of the Free State in South Africa, and as Foundation Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.

He publishes a monthly blog which has been viewed by more than 65 000 people, with 63 blogs on a variety of subjects including basic physiological control mechanism, clinical health challenges, social issues and philosophical theories. In 2022 he published a book - the Poetry of Life. He has published more than 150 scientific publications, which have been cited 15114 time with an H-Index of 66 and an H-10 Index of 135 on Google Scholar.

In 1999 he was awarded the Transact South African Sports Medicine Congress Established Scientist Best Research Paper Award for his presentation titled: Efferent motor command governing muscle power output is decreased during endurance cycling activity. In 2002 he was awarded a Fogarty International Traveling Fellowship Award to work at the Human Motor Control Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA, with world renowned Neurologist Scientist, Dr Mark Hallett. In 2002 he was awarded a South African National Researh Foundation Rating: Y1 (2002) – Under 35 year old scientists who show promise of establishing themselves as top researchers in their fields within the next five years.

He is mainly known for his contribution to novel theories on exercise and physiological control systems, including developing the Central Governor Theory of Exercise and Activity Regulation (with Tim Noakes and Vicki Lambert),https://www.bjsm.bmj.com/content/39/2/120.short{{fv}} the Integrative Governor Theory (with Jeroen Swart and Ross Tucker),{{Cite journal|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28478704/|title=The interaction of psychological and physiological homeostatic drives and role of general control principles in the regulation of physiological systems, exercise and the fatigue process - The Integrative Governor theory|first1=A.|last1=St Clair Gibson|first2=J.|last2=Swart|first3=R.|last3=Tucker|date=February 26, 2018|journal=European Journal of Sport Science|volume=18|issue=1|pages=25–36|via=PubMed|doi=10.1080/17461391.2017.1321688|pmid=28478704}} the Metabolic Setpoint Theory,{{Cite journal|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15967183/|title=Metabolic setpoint control mechanisms in different physiological systems at rest and during exercise|first1=A.|last1=St Clair Gibson|first2=J. H.|last2=Goedecke|first3=Y. X.|last3=Harley|first4=L. J.|last4=Myers|first5=M. I.|last5=Lambert|first6=T. D.|last6=Noakes|first7=E. V.|last7=Lambert|date=September 7, 2005|journal=Journal of Theoretical Biology|volume=236|issue=1|pages=60–72|via=PubMed|doi=10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.02.016|pmid=15967183|bibcode=2005JThBi.236...60S }} the Information Processing Control Theory,{{cite journal | url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16869711/ | pmid=16869711 | date=2006 | last1=St Clair Gibson | first1=A. | last2=Lambert | first2=E. V. | last3=Rauch | first3=L. H. | last4=Tucker | first4=R. | last5=Baden | first5=D. A. | last6=Foster | first6=C. | last7=Noakes | first7=T. D. | title=The role of information processing between the brain and peripheral physiological systems in pacing and perception of effort | journal=Sports Medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) | volume=36 | issue=8 | pages=705–722 | doi=10.2165/00007256-200636080-00006 }} the Cognitive Discussion Theory of Fatigue,{{cite journal | url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18027992/ | pmid=18027992 | date=2007 | last1=St Clair Gibson | first1=A. | last2=Foster | first2=C. | title=The role of self-talk in the awareness of physiological state and physical performance | journal=Sports Medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) | volume=37 | issue=12 | pages=1029–1044 | doi=10.2165/00007256-200737120-00003 }} and the Foster Collapse Control Theory,{{cite journal | url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23568375/ | pmid=23568375 | date=2013 | last1=St Clair Gibson | first1=A. | last2=De Koning | first2=J. J. | last3=Thompson | first3=K. G. | last4=Roberts | first4=W. O. | last5=Micklewright | first5=D. | last6=Raglin | first6=J. | last7=Foster | first7=C. | title=Crawling to the finish line: Why do endurance runners collapse? Implications for understanding of mechanisms underlying pacing and fatigue | journal=Sports Medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) | volume=43 | issue=6 | pages=413–424 | doi=10.1007/s40279-013-0044-y }} amongst others.

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