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NIWCHANCE

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Hi

First of all thanks for the important information that all the people post here. I am preparing my application for EB1-EA. I am a chemist by profession. During my PhD I developed and studied the mechanism of a novel platinum based anti-cancer agent.


This is how I am planning to present my case. I want to claim only three of the criteria


1. Evidence of the alien’s authorship of scholarly articles in the field, in professional or major trade publications or other major media


I have 10 publications (7 first-author plus 3 second-author) in relatively good journals (first author in JACS, Biochemistry, Angew Chemie, Nucleic Acids Research and one second author in nature biotechnology). To claim significance of my work I have about 200 citations (including about 70 citations from second author papers). Some of the citations were writing about a paragraph about my work. I am going to highlight those citations.


My question:

How bad is to have so many citations from second-authored papers or in other words how much do the service discriminate between first author and second author publications/citations?


Does conference presentation (or invited presentation) and patent fall under these criteria or does it go with criteria mentioned below?


2. Evidence of the alien’s original scientific, scholarly, artistic, athletic, or business-related contributions of major significance in the field


I am planning to get 10 letters.


3. Evidence of the alien’s participation, either individually or on a panel, as a judge of the work of others in the same or an allied field of specialization for which classification is sought


Reviewed 5 journals (not very high impact journals)


My questions

I do not have any awards and there is nothing else that I can claim. Is it okay just to claim only three criteria? Does premium processing still exist? Please let me know my chances.
 
You are in the right direction. It does not matter whether your second auothor paper has more citations. You are not going to explain each and every citations. You can surely give a shot at EB1-EA. I have seen people with less qualification got it approved where as highly qualified got RFEs. All the best
 
In which subsection are you going to apply?
under chemistry or under different section? this will have some impact.

I am also a synthetic organic chemist and now working under gene targeting and anti cancer therapy.

I was told by my attorney to focus more on anti-cancer research and less on synthetic part.

I do not have 200 citation nor I have JACS/Angew Chem. I think u have much better chances than me. so talk to a good attorney and try to focus on cancer research.
If u can get reference letters from around the world that would b great.
2-3 from europe, 1-3 from Asia, 4-6 from US/Canada.
do not worry about 2nd author publication. In some places u will never get 1st author paper. so mention about the citations in your cover letter.

Good luck.
by the way which center r u applying?
 
NIW-help, the high number of citations would def. help your EA case. Second author citations shouldn't matter. You might want to discuss each citation individually and highlight those that are not related to you or your co-authors/collaborators. Also, highlight citations from around the world as a plus point (you lawyer should take care of this).

Conference presentations should technically count if they are invited. Patents def. count in my opinion. I have seen others add patents to the list of original scholarly publications.

Try to get letters from editors that invited your to review manuscripts. I have heard that they generally write good letters.

Good luck!
 
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