Please help, how to answer RFE?

Dear Deng,
Others have already given you their advices. Here are few points to defend.

1. Your reco letter shud mention the significance of your work, your contributions. They must say u r top in the field with evidences. Try to get few more letters (3-4) indicatiing you belong to top 2-3% in the field.
2. You are claiming authorship with 2 first author papers. What are the impact facors of thses journals? if these 2 papers are in top journals? How many citations?
If they are good, you can definitely defend it strongly.
Average, how many first author papaers other can get at your level?
3. You have reviewed 29 papers for a single journal. That`s great. However, you need to mention about the quality of the journal substantiated with letter from the editor.

Good luck.
 
Thanks, goviks. I have got three letters, two of them are from previous writers, one is from a new writer. My supervisor write that i am the major contributor although my name is on the second place (my name is on the second place for all of my papers). Because of his policy, he never pub student's name on the first place but i AM the major contributor. Is that enough for authorship defense? Thanks.
 
goviks, lucydeng,
I don't know what happened on Aug 3rd but some messages were time-stamped earlier than the messages they were answering!

Anyway, it seems, goviks, that you read my comments on the awards.

I would be very careful with them.

- If (i) is the only third criterion (in addition to (v) and (vi) ) that you are going to claim, you will have to package it extremely well and hope that the reader won't check too deeply... and don't read this forum ;)

- If you have another criterion looking better, mention your awards, explain what they are in a positive (but honest) way, and add that you think they are not really good enough for criterion (i). It will make your other claims be looked at more favourably and you won't loose much.

Chris
 
Lucydeng said:
Thanks, goviks. I have got three letters, two of them are from previous writers, one is from a new writer. My supervisor write that i am the major contributor although my name is on the second place (my name is on the second place for all of my papers). Because of his policy, he never pub student's name on the first place but i AM the major contributor. Is that enough for authorship defense? Thanks.
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I had similar situation when I replied my NIW. Ok, I have fewer papers (two first-author and the other two in the middle) and the two I first-authored had decent (40+ and 30+) but not spectacular citations. I asked my ex-advisor to write down specifically that I made key contribution (which is true) to the two papers that I am not the first author, but unfortunately the adjudicator did not buy it (in addition, he/she even doubted my role/contribution in the other two papers I first-authored). Oh well, I think you did what you could; the rest is beyond our control. Good luck!
 
Dear CD4help, i am sorry for your NIW case, which should be much easier generally. Then what happened to your case now? How did you defend it after they didnt buy it. Thanks. Good luck to you too.
 
Lucydeng said:
Dear CD4help, i am sorry for your NIW case, which should be much easier generally. Then what happened to your case now? How did you defend it after they didnt buy it. Thanks. Good luck to you too.
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It was eventually denied and I re-filed it on 7/25. This time, I did some specific statistics to support my claim that my work has greater impact than the majority of the others in the field and things like that and, perhaps even more importantly, I did "preemptive strike" - to explain my seemingly weak points in a logical way and hopefully I can convince the adjudicator this time. :)
 
I am sorry. It's terrible. I thought NIW should not be so strict. What scientific area are you working in? 4 papers should be enough for NIW case. Good luck.
 
Lucydeng,
Did you get letters? did u answer RFE? Hope ur case will be succeeded.
Good luck and hope to hear from you soon.
 
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