organization of citations

[domer77]

Need your advice on this:

I am putting things together for NIW. I've searched for papers citing my work and found about 150 citations. These works cite a dozen of my major and minor articles. I've read here all suggestions on how to organize the citations by putting in front those article which talk about my particular work, and moving back those which only mention it among other works. I've also organized a list of those references grouping them by my articles. So, here is a question - If I print even first page, reference page and pages which cite my work, it will be a stack of 300 pages (or more). Should I try to do it and mail these 300+ pages to USCIS ?
I was also thinking about putting pdfs of all those articles somewhere online and giving a link. Is that a good idea or not ?

 

[pana]

Need your advice on this:

I am putting things together for NIW. I've searched for papers citing my work and found about 150 citations. These works cite a dozen of my major and minor articles. I've read here all suggestions on how to organize the citations by putting in front those article which talk about my particular work, and moving back those which only mention it among other works. I've also organized a list of those references grouping them by my articles. So, here is a question - If I print even first page, reference page and pages which cite my work, it will be a stack of 300 pages (or more). Should I try to do it and mail these 300+ pages to USCIS ?
I was also thinking about putting pdfs of all those articles somewhere online and giving a link. Is that a good idea or not ?

Well, give a list of all the cited paper ... guess Not all cited paper discussed/used your work... Some of them must be just a citation for similar work (never mind if I am wrong)... anyway Don't put them.... Select few papers which talk about your research ... highlight them ...

I was also thinking about putting pdfs of all those articles somewhere online and giving a link. Is that a good idea or not ?

very bad idea .. don't forget copyright law ... you can link DOI to each paper ... good luck ..
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just a thought .. never went to a law school ..

 

[domer77]

Thanks for the "copyright" advice. I just didn't think about it....

And regarding all those citations, it appeared that the work that we did was pioneering in a totally new field, and anybody else who was doing some work there was citing our works (what else they were left to do ? .

But your advice to omit most of the papers somewhat contradicts what I was reading before. I thought that I was supposed to impress the USCIS with the importance of my research....

 

[lakksh]

Thanks for the "copyright" advice. I just didn't think about it....

And regarding all those citations, it appeared that the work that we did was pioneering in a totally new field, and anybody else who was doing some work there was citing our works (what else they were left to do ? .

But your advice to omit most of the papers somewhat contradicts what I was reading before. I thought that I was supposed to impress the USCIS with the importance of my research....

Reg CITATIONS: U need not print all copies of paper that cited your work. If you have access to WEB OF SCIENCE - where you will get Citing Articles Summary - where title of your article appears followed the title of of Citing papers, authors name and journal published. If you have lesser than 30 citatins it would be ok to suppply all those papers that cited ur work. Anything more than 3o means - u better give them the CITING ARTICLES SUMMARY FROM web of sceince.

 

[domer77]

Reg CITATIONS: U need not print all copies of paper that cited your work. If you have access to WEB OF SCIENCE - where you will get Citing Articles Summary - where title of your article appears followed the title of of Citing papers, authors name and journal published. If you have lesser than 30 citatins it would be ok to suppply all those papers that cited ur work. Anything more than 3o means - u better give them the CITING ARTICLES SUMMARY FROM web of sceince.

I've found that Web Of Science has missed many of the citing works. So, I had to google for others (and found many works that where not in WOS). And I have all those works listed (names, titles, journals) in one document (which is about 7 pages in small font).

I guess, my question will be this - Does it make difference that I've found those articles through Google and not WebOfScience ?

 

[pana]

Thanks for the "copyright" advice. I just didn't think about it....

And regarding all those citations, it appeared that the work that we did was pioneering in a totally new field, and anybody else who was doing some work there was citing our works (what else they were left to do ? .

But your advice to omit most of the papers somewhat contradicts what I was reading before. I thought that I was supposed to impress the USCIS with the importance of my research....

NO NO .. not suggesting to omit anything … put them on the LIST ….in general citation is a routine process in science … so sometime people just put a “number” in the text when they describe similar work to you and the number refer to your article… printing out of this type of citation will lower your credit … Take print out of those article which describe your work and highlight your work or used your work to draw some conclusion to their results… hope you got my point …

Google search results is fine to me but USCIS prefers Web of Science or Scifinder results ...
When I applied I took the list from all these three and made a cover page describing what are missing in where ... hope this helps

 

[domer77]

What is Scifinder?
Never used it before. is it a web service or a software ?

(and your first point is clear. thanks.)

 

[pana]

What is Scifinder?
Never used it before. is it a web service or a software ?

(and your first point is clear. thanks.)

Well, SciFinder Scholar is a bibliographic information service providing access to the world's largest collection of biochemical, chemical, chemical engineering, medical, and other related information. SciFinder is based on the Chemical Abstract Services.
http://www.cas.org/SCIFINDER/SCHOLAR/

It’s a licensed software, usually available free to use in any University.. ask any of your friends working in these field... it’s updates almost in real time..