help---can I claim medium report criterion?

[yytd]

Hi friends,

I am debating within myself about one thing in my EB1A petition. Hope to hear your thoughts on this.

I was ready to send out my petition, then I noticed that my papers were among the 41 finalists for Signaling Breakthroughs of 2008 (“the most exciting advances in signaling transduction research”) in the Editorial Guide of Science Signaling journal (a sister journal of Science) (nominated by the Editorial Broad members and other prominent scientists around the world).

A quick search for papers on “Signaling Transduction” published in “2008” and appearing on PubMed (an on-line database developed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine that provides free access to MEDLINE records) yield >16,000 records.

Can I use this evidence to meet the criterion of medium report? Only my PI's name was shown in this editorial guide. And there is only one sentence on my papers.

Is winning the status of “signaling breakthrough of the year” in a good journal strong enough to meet the medium report criterion?

The only other medium report-type evidence I have is a newsletter within my collaborator's institute (I am a co-author in their paper and only my PI's name, not mine, showed in this one). I can also put this one in if I want to claim medium report criterion now. I was not going to include it since my name did not show and I did not want to claim that criterion before this breakthrough thing came out.

By the way, for my petition, I have stronger evidences for 3 criteria (contributions, papers, and reviews) and weaker evidences for 2 other (awards and memberships).

Thank you very much for your suggestions.

 

[yytd]

Can someone please offer some suggestions ? Do you think I can use the breakthrough as an honor to strengthen my minor awards for the award criteria?

The breakthrough is definetely an evidence for contribution. But I was hoping to use it for some other criteria. My evidences for contribution should be OK -- invited to write a review, good reviewers' comments on my papers, 63 independent citations, 9 good reference letters (5 independent), a report of invention (not a patent, though).

 

[blueone]

Whatever you have in your favor should certainly be used to strengthen your case. However, I do recommend that you stick to three strong categories and not include weak categories that you are not confortable with. You might use them when issued an RFE.

 

[yytd]

Thank you, blueone. What is your experience or feeling that TSC would approve an EB-1A with only three strong criteria ? I know they should, just do not know how often they did.