各位大侠,
Please help evaluate my qualifications and strong/weak points for EB1A application. Thank you in advance!
My background first:
1. Education: PhD in biology (cancer biology) from an OK university (ranked 40th) in US. Currently doing Postdoc (cancer biology) in a top university of US for 4 years.
2. Papers: 10 peer-reviewed papers. Best ones are 4 PNAS (co-first-author in 2 of them, still in press, may come out together by December). 4 first-author: two in PNAS (co-first author, 4th and 2nd in order, IF=9.5), one in Cancer Research (IF=7.6) and one in Oncogene (IF =6.4). All English. All within last 5 years. One manuscript in writing (only co-author, will submit in 2 months to a very good journal).
3. Conferences abstracts and presentations: 9 in international conferences. All first authored. 8 posters (including one late-breaking poster --- considered a breakthrough by the society) and one invited talk.
4. Citations: Total 53 from 6 published papers (26 from 2 first author papers). The 4 PNAS papers are still in press -- no citation yet.
5. Reviewer: invited by the editors to review 8 manuscripts (11 times including revisions) for 3 oncology journals (ranked 3rd, 4th and 18th most cited oncology journals).
6. Invited to be a Guess Executive Editor by the editor-in-chief for one review issue on my sub-expertise for an OK oncology journal (IF=5.4, 20th among 132 Oncology journals). Have not done anything yet, may have to turn down the invitation since it will take too much time, but will probably do it if it will help my green card application A LOT.
7. Reference letters: 8 letters from ok/good-named professors. I drafted 6 (strong). 4 independent (know from meeting, 1 international--a little weaker).
8. Three memberships in scientific societies: two asked for qualifications such as Sigma Xi and AACR.
9. An institutional award from my PhD university for my outstanding graduate research. Some graduate fellowships (may not count).
10. No media report. No grant or postdoc fellowship.
My questions:
1. How necessary I should do the Guess Editor work? It will certainly help, but by how much? It will take tons of my time, since I have to find 4-6 people to write the reviews and then 8-12 reviewers to evaluate these reviews. I rather like reviewing manuscripts.
2. Should I wait to have more reviews?
3. Should I try to get more international reference letters? The only international letter I have is only warm, not as strong as others.
4. Can I claim to meet the membership criteria? Two of the 3 memberships are selective, but not too selective.
I think I can claim to meet 3 EB1A criteria: Reviewer (still a little bit weak, will be stronger if I do the Guess Editor work); Publications (10 journal papers and 9 conference presentations); Original Contributions (reference letters + memberships + one small award + citations). Or separate out the memberships.
What do you think? Should I wait a little longer or submit it as it is now. I may have 3-4 more reviews and 3-4 more citations if wait for another 4 months. But I am thinking of submitting in 1-2 months, since I need greed card for grant application and better job hunting.
BTW, I submitted a NIW I-140 last July to TSC -- still pending. Plus, my submitted NIW I-485 is not current anyway (have EAD and AP in pocket though).
多谢啦！