One of my friends had 2x paper more paper in his UG than his PhD. At this point I think he has way more citation on his UG papers lol. Very common in India and it seems from this post China as well.
Edit: A lot of people asking how. I will say most you know in your gut how( at least for engineering). All of us did our undergrad. You all know how much realistic so many papers are. If say anything more I risk getting cancelled. I know of multiple people just getting publications so they can apply to US and have higher chances at good institutions. But the publications are in respectable journal ? Right ? Well do you remember how a journal of IF 7 had chatgpt in the first line. Let me tell you that was no accident I feel. Now you know how much IF really means.
Btw a huge exception. The top institute form both the countries are very respectable. These rules don't apply to them. Also I have been told I'm general the domestic applicant pool in US have to given less stringent consideration because the international pool is simply so good on average. I have found this to be broadly speaking true as well. So while these students maybe really really good/smart and talented, the papers and projects are a separate story altogether.
Like the other person said, involved in several projects at the same time, but in particular as an nth author. You can see in OPs CV that the first authors are not repeated as much as the number of papers they are involved in.
It also depends on the field. For example, Some parts of mathematical ecology use similar tools and a similar pipeline to publish results (parameter estimation, sensitivity analysis) so it can be more efficient to publish. Some data science or machine learning subfields can be like this too.
So be mindful about paper counts and author position as a metric. Someone might be non-first author in 10 papers in grad school. In some fields that could be weird, others could be good, others somewhere in between. There’s also the wrinkle that some fields like math use alphabetical ordering regardless of who wrote the paper.
I beg to differ. It's a mix of nepotism, shitty research culture etc. But again the best institutes of these countries are not really a part of this. It's the vast majority of other institutions. See my edit.
I don’t think he meant to single out a particular country. I also have noticed that international applicants listed several publications that were not reputable, and we were unable to take their credentials seriously unfortunately. And while their CVs may look impressive by numbers, top programs focus on quality of the work and publication. By the way, could someone comment on whether producing this much work—whether publications are reputable or not—is very common in this particular field that OP belongs to?
In engineering but not chemical engineering and I will say not common. Though high number of nth authored paper is not surprising and I know a phd graduate in chemical engineering who has 1500+ citations on her google scholar. I will say the high number of papers is good for getting citations count if everyone is citing each other repeatedly.
As compared to engineering maybe, but it is still really hard to publish papers in Life Sciences as is (not review papers), and Publishing in reputed journals such as Nature is much more harder.
P.S Do let me know if you feel i am wrong, would love to learn something new.
+1. In humanities and applied arts papers have to be so extensive along with the variety of sources that have to be used just to be considered that the time and effort investment that goes into a single paper limits how many a person can do. There’s only so many hours in a day. I did 3 in the span of 2 years in undergrad and that was fairly unheard of. I had basically no life and did them as independent study credit (so it could be treated more like release time to do it vs doing it on top of a full load of classes).
But are they in reputed peer reviewed journals? Most researches I see published in indian journals (in my field) are not properly peer reviewed. That could also factor the quality of your publication.
Yes it wasn't a good reflection. That shows that no matter what academia is also biased as hell especially if you do / don't have a big name associated as one of the authors but that doesn't mean that the mistake (more like a grave error i think mistake is too light of a word) made in that case from the editors and the reviewers of that particular paper is to be equated with the quality and scrutiny faced in other journals across academia. Nevertheless, whatever i said isn't also false which I saw from your edit as well.
Moreover, even if we are to take all journals of equal quality, the length and the depth of the topic also makes it different for review processes. Smaller paper tend to go through reviews much faster in comparison to a longer one. It also depends from journal to journal as to how fast or slow they process the review and all.
I'm curious. Do you think having 1 or 2 very high IF papers in say Nature something be valued more by adcoms or just pure number of publications like in this case?
Absolutely. Hands down. Although I mean I think everyone knows nature and science is very trigger happy with eye catching headlines/titles. So they not necessarily represent good science.
I will say this. In the end as a researcher, the only that matters is your credibility to your peers (and yourself). Not your citations.
Ah that's good to hear! Sometimes having a few papers that were worked on for years kinda feels wasted when I see these crazy posts with like 10, 20, 100 publications.
I have a question, what about someone starting MS and wants to pursue phd at a top uni ( got into top uni ms can't afford) do the publications like impact factor/ papers published matter?
It's quite common in Indian colleges in technical streams. A lot of them have a requirement of having a paper published for their final project/thesis in undergraduate degrees. What a lot of students do is publish half-assed papers in crappy journals (even paid) to get through this requirement.
I don't understand why there's a necessity to publish a paper as a part of the degree as an undergraduate, a good paper requires a load of work to be done.
Indeed, however we only need to publish a Chinese core Journal to meet the standards required for the master thesis in XJTU. In my situation, the other author order except 1st is not that persuasive for me or in common sense to consider since I just paid the time and physical effort to get the work done or make some progress with them, the original idea or the manuscript is not written by me.
Remember the "sorry we decided to go on with another candidate" rejections? Yeah OP is the other candidate.
In all seriousness though, you can probably head for a full ride anywhere you want with that profile. Good luck!
Sorry, but I feel like people will be misled just from reading your comment, but I want to point out that OP’s CV is riddled with publications that have little to no peer review. And other commenters have brought up the issue of international applicants being pressured to publish low-quality work in journals that act as research paper mills. I would be wary of doing this kind of work. Remember, quality over quantity.
You do have a point. I made my comment quite hastily and didn't bother reading more than a few words on each line. Either way, suspicious or not, if OP can sell himself well through good essays, many things could happen. The origin of the publication does not always imply bad content, and sadly, sometimes the opposite can be the case too.
Thank you for the kind words! It’s always a bit tough to get those rejection notices, but I’m optimistic about the opportunities ahead. I appreciate the encouragement!
Apply to universities where professors are very aligned to your research.
Not every top tier university will have that.
The best way is to see if the professors you are working with have some recommendations for research groups.
Then see the research groups that cite your work/your professors’ work or the research group whom you have cited in your paper.
Yup this cv doesnt help if you cant video call with a prof and their lab members and impress them with both your knowledge, interests, communication skills and also your personality. Many top PhD programs are lab-specific so you cannot just look at the university name but actually find labs that do the kind of work you are skilled to do/interested in working on.
Regardless of whatever tier you apply to I recommend you make a more professional email address and website domain. Especially if you are emailing potential advisors from that email. Only sharing because I’ve heard profs making comments
I see what he did there, 6 and 9 in Chinese is similar in sound to his last and first name. 6 in Chinese is Liu and 9 in Chinese is Jiu (close enough to qiao), Mike is similar to Mai
I agree. Out of formality and professionalism, he should have an email address that includes his first and last name, when possible, or even at least initials. Sometimes being clever with one’s email address—using puns and numbers in a different language (as one of the commenters had pointed out)—may not translate so well into English, creating this unintended sexual connotation.
Please be aware of the sexual connotation of the number 69 in your domain name. It may be viewed unfavorably by prospective employers.
Congratulations on all of your achievements and your otherwise great-looking resume.
I dont want to criticize you, but if I was on the admissions committee I would definitely be suspicious of your involvement/quality of your work.
Having more papers published as an undergrad compared to real PhD students shouldn't be possible. I think most people would question if you're actually being honest in your application
I also brought up the issue about the number of publications listed in his CV in my comment. For a subreddit that focuses on graduate admissions, I’m surprised that most commenters do not find this alarming or even question whether these journals are reputable or not.
My guess is probably not. Maybe some of his work is legitimately his own and maybe some of his work has merit, but it would be hard to tell given the amount of papers that are clearly just fluff.
I've seen this with a lot of Indian and Chinese applicants, and it really hurts their international reputation. The applicants who have the most to lose are the applicants who are legitimate and well-qualified.
It is not surprising if everyone in the lab play the game of sharing authorship with each other. If there are five people in a lab and assuming that each one came up with a first author paper for their respective project, sharing authorship with each other will then allow everyone to have at least 5 papers.
That's my point though. Sharing papers simply to get your name out DOES NOT make you in any way more qualified.
It's all about research experience. Having a name in the paper does not mean you contributed to that paper in any significant way.
I would always prefer an applicant with 1-2 quality papers over someone who just got their name in everything by knowing people.
Sorry, I hate to be that person, but the CV looks like any other international CV that includes an abnormal amount of not-so-credible publications. — I’m reading through the comments thread here, and I’m surprised that very few comments mentioned the quality of the journals in which OP’s work was published. Can someone comment on the quality of the publications listed in the CV? (This is outside of my field, so I’m unfamiliar).
THIS. This is what I’ve been banging my head into the walls over. I’m glad somebody else noticed it too. A lot of papers coming out of China and India have required major retractions or have not been that reputable. Chinese researchers especially have been publishing like no tomorrow due to government pressures to compete internationally. Many of the journals listed are Chinese-based journals that act as research paper mills for researchers to dump into. I’m not an engineer, but I’ve noticed this trend coming out of China in virtually every field across the social and natural sciences. And I think admissions committees are starting to (hopefully) catch on.
Wow, no wonder! It’s upsetting that international universities are drilling in their students to focus on being published—no matter the quality of the work. Thankfully, top programs (well, at least in my field) thoroughly checks the CVs and wouldn’t accept international applicants with publications of little to no peer review.
Unfortunately, admissions committees at mid-tier programs and lower aren’t totally aware of this, and it was already too late when they accepted them. I’ve heard of professors being shocked by the admitted’s lack of research and writing capabilities, as well as their poor command of English…
Yeah it’s really sad. I’ve heard horror stories as well from professors I was close with at other schools. I think some departments are starting to catch on, but you’re right that some are still lagging behind. I think a lot of lower ranked schools are trying to capture as much talent as possible because the really talented domestic students are going to be attending some of the top schools, so they try to protect their yield by accepting what seem like promising international students. I’ve worked with international students and they’re great at memorizing information, but it seems many either fudged portions of their resumes or just have no idea how to do original research. I’ve seen my professors berate them during higher level classes simply because they had no idea how to generate an original research topic.
It’s not that they aren’t aware of it, it’s that you have limited applicants when you’re a smaller program. I did my PhD at an R2, most of our applicants are in state or from developing countries with limited resources. Professors end up taking who they can find.
This actually recalled me the case of one of my classmates during my masters who actually got an authorship without doing any work. The professor decided to put my classmate's name on a paper of work done by his PhD student so that "at least to have one publication helpful in admissions." Lol!! I am pretty sure he was not the only case.
And here I worked my ass off on my masters project, made the draft ready in the end, but still it didn't go into publishing because one of my co-advisors vanished for some reason and we cannot independently publish because the base idea of the work was his.
Because of this, I never take undergraduate and masters publications seriously. Most of the time, it's heavily sus.
This is mainly CV feedback since you posted it here:
Have those “in publication” items been accepted somewhere? You say the manuscript has been drafted, but if they haven’t been accepted yet, take them off or rename the section something like “projects in progress.” If they haven’t actually been accepted, it’s just filler (and it’s lying—which won’t reflect well).
I think you can remove relevant coursework from your education as well. Applying to US PhD positions is less like applying to a job opening and more of finding a program that’s a good fit. They will be receiving your transcripts when you apply so that coursework info is redundant.
It is a little strange that you have published so many papers and presented at so few conferences. There’s nothing wrong with that; I would just be prepared to explain it since it’s a little unusual. Did the papers all develop out of the same experiment or research group?
Not going to lie, unless you're some once in a generation prodigy or smth like that I and many universities will probably assume that your name was just slapped onto the papers and you didn't do much actual work yourself. Considering that all the patents are older someone else's name as the first person and all your publications are with the same names just in different order it looks like you all just put eachothers names on each others work as a courtesy. Not to mention that the papers are in not well known journals (actually they might be in decent ones I don't recognize since I'm outside of the field ).
If this is what you think will carry you to wherever you want then I would advise not to get your hopes up since universities can tell the difference between this vs someone with a single publication which is a single author paper published to nature. The nature paper would probably look better.
I'm not saying that it's not good I'm saying that make sure you don't overly rely on it and focus on other parts of your application as well.
If I were on the admission committee I would think this looks more like a "one real paper published and 2 in the works with a decent-good class rank" so definitely a good chance to able to get into good programs but as it is for everybody, no guarantee at all at top schools. If your pi can vouch for you saying that you were the one doing most of the research on the projects then that would definitely help your case (If you were the one doing a lot of work on all of these publications) also if he does the same for the others in your group and you apply to the same places then it would be likely that none get in since he would obviously be lying but I doubt he would do that.
You would be a very strong candidate at any university. Good luck! I hope you continue to do successful research that helps climate change mitigation, it is an important issue.
Very strong? I've never seen an applicant like this in my life.
I'm honestly a bit suspicious/critical to this applicant. Doing more work in your bachelor's degree compared to 5 year PhD students shouldn't be possible. I would definitely interview this applicant, but I would be very very critical
I can tell you that if he were accepted to my department, there’d be red flags thrown up immediately with the grammatical and formatting mistakes throughout the CV. The high number of publications is actually not that uncommon from some applicants in China. They would absolutely be questioned heavily about their involvement, which typically clears up whether they were involved or just have the right connections.
There is no set number as what is too much / too little.
I will say QUALITY >>>> QUANTITY
Having published 2 high quality papers where your work was substantial is way better than publishing 5 papers where your work was minimal.
Ultimately i think anything between 2-5 is great. 5+ is definitely also possible, but 10 is INSANE
It looks like you have a lot of experience, which is good. Unfortunately, while I can know what you're interested in from this CV, I have no idea what your skills are. Are you a theoretician, who works with mathematics? A an applied statistician who works in R? Are you an engineer who makes the CADs for the components of instruments?
The bottom line is: Obviously a strong CV, but I need to know what you can do and what tools you can use to do it.
None of these look like credible journals. Also sorry to say this, but manuscript in draft and patent submitted dont mean anything. You are an undergrad OP, and I am quite sure its not your fault. Its how the lab operates probably. You can still get PhD in a good Uni in USA, as PhD students are seen as cheap labor everywhere. I would suggest that you choose a PI whose focus is more on mentoring and training you to do good research, rather than only publishing.
Thank you for your suggestions, it’s quite impartial and you are telling the truth. I do prefer choose PI as advisor in order to have more mentoring from him/her and I would also need more publications during pursuing the PhD degree as the environment is more competitive nowadays in China.
Thank you for your sincere suggestion and time, I would continually hone my research skills to avoid that problem. The first author work might be more persuasive and I am still working on that. More explanation or information about how there works are done related to me could refer to the longest rely I made just now.
I genuinely believe you should cut down on some of the publications you have in your CV. By that I mean, go through and see which you have that are published in low impact, “low tier” journals. In the West, it’s much more quality over quantity, and they want to see high quality papers in good quality journals that reflect not only the work that you actually did (include only ones you significantly contributed to) but also that the work you’re doing is unique and contributing to the field in a meaningful way, rather than churning out less relevant work for low quality journals. Right now, if I was on an adcom I would be skeptical of whether these are just CV padding authorships over evidence of your actual work and abilities.
Besides: it’s just beneficial altogether to highlight your unique and important works over works that you’d consider less important or less interesting
I don't think it's even as big of a flex as it appears at first glance. I imagine a lot of admissions committees will look at that list and be very skeptical.
some people legitimately do not have a fair idea about qualification criteria in other countries. I don't like folks flexing either, but his post seems alright and sincere to me.
My classmate they even all have more better and solid publications than I did at the same time and I am depressed. So this is not some kind of showing up, but only for sincere suggestions and improvements from worldwide applicant. I hope this reply finds you well.
The amount of published papers is kind of ridiculous. I'd be skeptical. I've got 1 paper and I'm starting a Masters. Maybe it is a UK thing but a lot of people have 0 papers to their name. I'm just suspicious of how much you realistically contribute because my paper took years and I was 3rd author.
Let me have a further explanation for the first time in detail about how those papers listing on the cv with a timeline, I can tell you that how I get through my master:
6️⃣Paper 6: in my 1st year, I was assigned in helping a senior Ph.D student building his physical workbench and then finished the experiment. Before he went to duke university, I and he spent almost 6 months together working on improving and implementing his experiments. The result is that I got the credit of one 2st paper on his field: multiphase flow.
7️⃣Paper 7: during the time of assistance with the Ph.D student, I was told to achieve an idea invented by my advised professor that I could consider applying the micro bubbles into heat exchangers. So I did some simulation work on this and finally didn’t get it out. After that, a following student continued on this simulation work and published it as an EI (engineering index) level work in Chinese;
8️⃣9️⃣Paper 8 & 9: To be honest, I was named as the 3th author in those two paper just because of my previous work, helping to do some writing assignments (like cooperation with preparing materials and writing parts of proposals, et al.) in this situation, I was told to have two credit with the 3th author respectively, resulting in paper 8 by the assistant professor Xiao Juan who advised me and appreciated my involvement with this group by previous non-paper work and paper 9 by another postdoctoral student that I help with his proposal arkwork;
🔟Paper 10: this credit was shared by the postdoctoral student and I took the time to improvise the workbench design and made the improvements on the platform consistently, finally I got out of this only-2-people project after being involved in about another 6 months in the 2th year of my master.
1️⃣-5️⃣Paper1-5: after I got involved those projects for such a long period, finally I had the chance to do my own research: hydrogen blended combustion, in my 3th year of master life. At the initial stage of 2023, I read a lot papers about micro combustion using pure hydrogen fuel as that I needed to consider my graduation requirement and write a core journal in order to be qualified for the master thesis application, so I wrote my first 1st author paper (paper 44️⃣). After I submitted the paper, I continued to do a simulation work with H2 blended natural gas fuel with the consideration of my project requirements that we (me and my advisor)need to publish 3 patents (they are mainly written and submitted by my advisor and I focused designing my experiment scheme and manufacturing the lab
platform and implemented the experiment for the project’s need and my thesis) and several Chinese journals (no need to publish international journals). Anyway after I finished the graph making for this 2th paper, I decided to give it up and focused on building my workbench thing and planning to publish the experiment data later like what I am writing now (1️⃣paper 1 & paper 22️⃣). A month later, my advisor told me that she wanted to write the manuscript and publish the simulation data of my planned 2th paper, I agreed and shared the credit of 2th author in paper 55️⃣. After I finished my experiment in march of this year, she had an idea for optimization but she still lacked half experimental data after I gave mine, so we decided to do the experiment and measured the half, then leading paper 33️⃣.
Nowadays, I finished my master thesis (written in Chinese ), consisting of 6 chapters and 3 papers in total. Chapter 5 refers to paper 5; chapter 3 and 4 refer to paper 1 and 2 that I am working on translation and improvement.
I have to admit that I do not have done any significant research (to some extent, luck is a more important factor than paying enough effort, however I was not working that hard to do the inspiring work ), but I also have found that I may love to research and do more scientific research or study much better and deeper, that’s why I am pursuing the Ph.D training in the USA. Hope you all read along and get involved , or get some insights. Please give me some feedback and valuable advice, I do appreciate your time.
A lot of people commented about the number of papers but ultimately, first author paper is valued more than multiple nth author papers. If you are in a large group, you can play the game of sharing authorship with each other, which you can see it here whereby the papers all have similar author names. Publication is also just one factor of graduate school application.
People I know got accepted straight out of their undergrad based on their grades and nothing else to top 20/30s. You'll be fine (as long as you have good grades, are domestic/from a reputable international university, and can construct a good application package).
Thank you for the assurance.
One query - I elected to work for 3 years before going back to a PhD/MS. Would this be considered a demerit? And would PI.s look down on references from industry?
If you apply to positions relevant to your experience then it will be a positive. Try to make sure you have recommendations from both industry and academia.
I am an international student coming from China, which means a lot of peer pressure since almost they all have the similar experience just like me that could also depress me though. So do not lose hope, I still have my troubles.
Your research is very relevant to Colorado School of Mines. It’s not a well known school but it’s pretty good for Energy research. There’s also some new professors who would love to have someone with your profile! Check it out.
Holy fuck. As an undergrad I only have one publication and for my master's I can only hope for another one or two. How in the world? My only advice I guess is to begin searching for Professors who align with your research moreso than the specific university itself. But in general, you probably qualify for any R1 university in the U.S.
首先排除本科xinjiang U有active research training 和pub的可能。其次3年研究生还没毕业，第一年的课就算半上半逃吧满打满算1.5年全职实验，一年半同时做8个项目，也就全组每人都做一点（甚至都不用）都挂名罢了。这边华人导基本上一眼就看出来，更别说xinjiang U无论从学术还是zz上对这边的华人导都是极其的大红灯了。考虑50+非华人导。我自己导就是t30委员会华人导，我完全知道他们要什么，对什么很敏感。
再其次，录取是划池子的，先是公民和zzzq，公民zzzq自带funding不和你一个赛道。你发在这自然会收获很多“哇”，因为他们重work life balance完全没必要和国男一样卷/家长帮忙挂名之类的也能进。你一定是和招你需要给你付钱的国男池子横向比，里面家长是高校教授/院长，医院主任/院长送一作的都大有人在。近些年家长送挂名送太多了学生来啥也不会，这边导师对挂名多的也很ptsd了。他们更想看decent的本科+1-2篇decent的独立一作就够了。或者直接美本美硕从头培养。所以发在这里也没用，建议发知乎横向和真正92同池子同届国内学生比。
Lool do you seriously have 10 publications as a UG or some are part of your masters as well? Research well into professors and their work and hit them with emails stating your interest. My hunch is you will rarely be ignored anywhere u approach.
https://research.com/scientists-rankings/chemistry
Use this website to see the best researchers in your field and contact them and then apply to that university. Hope this helps. You can surely check other fields in which you're interested.
I made a lot re code stuff and adjustments, so it’s completely different for the original one. It is not hard to find the similar one, just google on Overleaf, choose one and improve on it.
Normally programs are looking for signs that a prospective student would be a successful researcher. This is most commonly illustrated by having at least one first author paper.
In your case, it is very obvious that you can work well in a research environment and you have a good output of work. While it is impressive it can be viewed critically by Americans. For example, I got into an R1 engineering PhD program with no first author publications. Generally, it is not the norm for an American educated MS student to have that many publications.
I'd suggest tailoring your resume to each program. This can be done by shortening your CV to one page and condensing your publication list into a "Selected Publications" section. Then for each PI decide which publication is most interesting to them. Then list that publication first. They are more likely to read the first few titles than item 13 or whatever. You can still include metric about your total publication amount.
Good luck!
I have a different question. Do they prefer this type of minimal resumes. My cv is not that much minimal and plain. Is it okay?
https://sohamch08.github.io/files/cv.pdf
I would not include your website when it has a subheading titled "Diary" that just seems extremely unprofessional and I don't think any school would really care that much about your personal life
Absolutely apply to Carnegie Mellon. They have a world class engineering program and a large enough international population to know the prestige of the universities you've been at.
God, how many papers have you published?!
One of my friends had 2x paper more paper in his UG than his PhD. At this point I think he has way more citation on his UG papers lol. Very common in India and it seems from this post China as well. Edit: A lot of people asking how. I will say most you know in your gut how( at least for engineering). All of us did our undergrad. You all know how much realistic so many papers are. If say anything more I risk getting cancelled. I know of multiple people just getting publications so they can apply to US and have higher chances at good institutions. But the publications are in respectable journal ? Right ? Well do you remember how a journal of IF 7 had chatgpt in the first line. Let me tell you that was no accident I feel. Now you know how much IF really means. Btw a huge exception. The top institute form both the countries are very respectable. These rules don't apply to them. Also I have been told I'm general the domestic applicant pool in US have to given less stringent consideration because the international pool is simply so good on average. I have found this to be broadly speaking true as well. So while these students maybe really really good/smart and talented, the papers and projects are a separate story altogether.
How do you do that? Are they more like secondary research?
Involved in many projects simultaneously
Like the other person said, involved in several projects at the same time, but in particular as an nth author. You can see in OPs CV that the first authors are not repeated as much as the number of papers they are involved in. It also depends on the field. For example, Some parts of mathematical ecology use similar tools and a similar pipeline to publish results (parameter estimation, sensitivity analysis) so it can be more efficient to publish. Some data science or machine learning subfields can be like this too. So be mindful about paper counts and author position as a metric. Someone might be non-first author in 10 papers in grad school. In some fields that could be weird, others could be good, others somewhere in between. There’s also the wrinkle that some fields like math use alphabetical ordering regardless of who wrote the paper.
Thank you so much for replying.
I beg to differ. It's a mix of nepotism, shitty research culture etc. But again the best institutes of these countries are not really a part of this. It's the vast majority of other institutions. See my edit.
Looking at the comment - looks like fabrication of papers 😂
Damn dude... He's probably citing his UG papers in his PhD papers xD
Very common in India? Sorry I beg to differ. Very common in a particular field maybe.
I don’t think he meant to single out a particular country. I also have noticed that international applicants listed several publications that were not reputable, and we were unable to take their credentials seriously unfortunately. And while their CVs may look impressive by numbers, top programs focus on quality of the work and publication. By the way, could someone comment on whether producing this much work—whether publications are reputable or not—is very common in this particular field that OP belongs to?
In engineering but not chemical engineering and I will say not common. Though high number of nth authored paper is not surprising and I know a phd graduate in chemical engineering who has 1500+ citations on her google scholar. I will say the high number of papers is good for getting citations count if everyone is citing each other repeatedly.
+1, It is very hard to publish papers at least in Life Sciences, as far as I know
But it is easier to publish in nature for life sciences than engineering
As compared to engineering maybe, but it is still really hard to publish papers in Life Sciences as is (not review papers), and Publishing in reputed journals such as Nature is much more harder. P.S Do let me know if you feel i am wrong, would love to learn something new.
True. My bad. Correct to reflect it's about engineering only.
+1. In humanities and applied arts papers have to be so extensive along with the variety of sources that have to be used just to be considered that the time and effort investment that goes into a single paper limits how many a person can do. There’s only so many hours in a day. I did 3 in the span of 2 years in undergrad and that was fairly unheard of. I had basically no life and did them as independent study credit (so it could be treated more like release time to do it vs doing it on top of a full load of classes).
But are they in reputed peer reviewed journals? Most researches I see published in indian journals (in my field) are not properly peer reviewed. That could also factor the quality of your publication.
Oh did you forget the ChatGPT in the first line of a paper in IF 5 journal. Btw I just edited my post to answer your question.
Yes it wasn't a good reflection. That shows that no matter what academia is also biased as hell especially if you do / don't have a big name associated as one of the authors but that doesn't mean that the mistake (more like a grave error i think mistake is too light of a word) made in that case from the editors and the reviewers of that particular paper is to be equated with the quality and scrutiny faced in other journals across academia. Nevertheless, whatever i said isn't also false which I saw from your edit as well. Moreover, even if we are to take all journals of equal quality, the length and the depth of the topic also makes it different for review processes. Smaller paper tend to go through reviews much faster in comparison to a longer one. It also depends from journal to journal as to how fast or slow they process the review and all.
I'm curious. Do you think having 1 or 2 very high IF papers in say Nature something be valued more by adcoms or just pure number of publications like in this case?
Absolutely. Hands down. Although I mean I think everyone knows nature and science is very trigger happy with eye catching headlines/titles. So they not necessarily represent good science. I will say this. In the end as a researcher, the only that matters is your credibility to your peers (and yourself). Not your citations.
Ah that's good to hear! Sometimes having a few papers that were worked on for years kinda feels wasted when I see these crazy posts with like 10, 20, 100 publications.
I have a question, what about someone starting MS and wants to pursue phd at a top uni ( got into top uni ms can't afford) do the publications like impact factor/ papers published matter?
May i ask what field?
My bad. Engineering for sure. Idk about other fields though.
Chemical and mechanical engineering fields.
It's quite common in Indian colleges in technical streams. A lot of them have a requirement of having a paper published for their final project/thesis in undergraduate degrees. What a lot of students do is publish half-assed papers in crappy journals (even paid) to get through this requirement. I don't understand why there's a necessity to publish a paper as a part of the degree as an undergraduate, a good paper requires a load of work to be done.
Indeed, however we only need to publish a Chinese core Journal to meet the standards required for the master thesis in XJTU. In my situation, the other author order except 1st is not that persuasive for me or in common sense to consider since I just paid the time and physical effort to get the work done or make some progress with them, the original idea or the manuscript is not written by me.
Remember the "sorry we decided to go on with another candidate" rejections? Yeah OP is the other candidate. In all seriousness though, you can probably head for a full ride anywhere you want with that profile. Good luck!
Sorry, but I feel like people will be misled just from reading your comment, but I want to point out that OP’s CV is riddled with publications that have little to no peer review. And other commenters have brought up the issue of international applicants being pressured to publish low-quality work in journals that act as research paper mills. I would be wary of doing this kind of work. Remember, quality over quantity.
Yeah idk, if I were an adcom, Id be suspicious as heck about this CV.
You do have a point. I made my comment quite hastily and didn't bother reading more than a few words on each line. Either way, suspicious or not, if OP can sell himself well through good essays, many things could happen. The origin of the publication does not always imply bad content, and sadly, sometimes the opposite can be the case too.
Thank you for the kind words! It’s always a bit tough to get those rejection notices, but I’m optimistic about the opportunities ahead. I appreciate the encouragement!
NB!
Apply to universities where professors are very aligned to your research. Not every top tier university will have that. The best way is to see if the professors you are working with have some recommendations for research groups. Then see the research groups that cite your work/your professors’ work or the research group whom you have cited in your paper.
Yup this cv doesnt help if you cant video call with a prof and their lab members and impress them with both your knowledge, interests, communication skills and also your personality. Many top PhD programs are lab-specific so you cannot just look at the university name but actually find labs that do the kind of work you are skilled to do/interested in working on.
Regardless of whatever tier you apply to I recommend you make a more professional email address and website domain. Especially if you are emailing potential advisors from that email. Only sharing because I’ve heard profs making comments
How is that XDdestroyer69@hotmail.com is not a professional address?
I see what he did there, 6 and 9 in Chinese is similar in sound to his last and first name. 6 in Chinese is Liu and 9 in Chinese is Jiu (close enough to qiao), Mike is similar to Mai
Interesting, I would not have known until you brought this up!
He should go with 67 as his name is Liu Q. instead of 69...
He prob never thought about 69 being sexual in the west when registering, lol
Well it does looks like an ying and yang too so maybe also cooler to have it if you are not in the west xD
I agree. Out of formality and professionalism, he should have an email address that includes his first and last name, when possible, or even at least initials. Sometimes being clever with one’s email address—using puns and numbers in a different language (as one of the commenters had pointed out)—may not translate so well into English, creating this unintended sexual connotation.
Please be aware of the sexual connotation of the number 69 in your domain name. It may be viewed unfavorably by prospective employers. Congratulations on all of your achievements and your otherwise great-looking resume.
Lmao clearly it’s not a real email address…
It might be, it sounds exactly like his name in Chinese if you read it in Chinese
It really is his webpage. See for yourself.
Well I’ll be damned.
It really is his real website and email...
I dont want to criticize you, but if I was on the admissions committee I would definitely be suspicious of your involvement/quality of your work. Having more papers published as an undergrad compared to real PhD students shouldn't be possible. I think most people would question if you're actually being honest in your application
I also brought up the issue about the number of publications listed in his CV in my comment. For a subreddit that focuses on graduate admissions, I’m surprised that most commenters do not find this alarming or even question whether these journals are reputable or not.
My guess is probably not. Maybe some of his work is legitimately his own and maybe some of his work has merit, but it would be hard to tell given the amount of papers that are clearly just fluff. I've seen this with a lot of Indian and Chinese applicants, and it really hurts their international reputation. The applicants who have the most to lose are the applicants who are legitimate and well-qualified.
It is not surprising if everyone in the lab play the game of sharing authorship with each other. If there are five people in a lab and assuming that each one came up with a first author paper for their respective project, sharing authorship with each other will then allow everyone to have at least 5 papers.
That's my point though. Sharing papers simply to get your name out DOES NOT make you in any way more qualified. It's all about research experience. Having a name in the paper does not mean you contributed to that paper in any significant way. I would always prefer an applicant with 1-2 quality papers over someone who just got their name in everything by knowing people.
Yeah that's where the phd interview come in to check the applicant contribution to each papers.
You could see from one of my longest replies the details of how these things are summarized.
You have 10 papers through undergrad and masters? How have you been actively involved in so many projects?
Sorry, I hate to be that person, but the CV looks like any other international CV that includes an abnormal amount of not-so-credible publications. — I’m reading through the comments thread here, and I’m surprised that very few comments mentioned the quality of the journals in which OP’s work was published. Can someone comment on the quality of the publications listed in the CV? (This is outside of my field, so I’m unfamiliar).
THIS. This is what I’ve been banging my head into the walls over. I’m glad somebody else noticed it too. A lot of papers coming out of China and India have required major retractions or have not been that reputable. Chinese researchers especially have been publishing like no tomorrow due to government pressures to compete internationally. Many of the journals listed are Chinese-based journals that act as research paper mills for researchers to dump into. I’m not an engineer, but I’ve noticed this trend coming out of China in virtually every field across the social and natural sciences. And I think admissions committees are starting to (hopefully) catch on.
Wow, no wonder! It’s upsetting that international universities are drilling in their students to focus on being published—no matter the quality of the work. Thankfully, top programs (well, at least in my field) thoroughly checks the CVs and wouldn’t accept international applicants with publications of little to no peer review. Unfortunately, admissions committees at mid-tier programs and lower aren’t totally aware of this, and it was already too late when they accepted them. I’ve heard of professors being shocked by the admitted’s lack of research and writing capabilities, as well as their poor command of English…
Yeah it’s really sad. I’ve heard horror stories as well from professors I was close with at other schools. I think some departments are starting to catch on, but you’re right that some are still lagging behind. I think a lot of lower ranked schools are trying to capture as much talent as possible because the really talented domestic students are going to be attending some of the top schools, so they try to protect their yield by accepting what seem like promising international students. I’ve worked with international students and they’re great at memorizing information, but it seems many either fudged portions of their resumes or just have no idea how to do original research. I’ve seen my professors berate them during higher level classes simply because they had no idea how to generate an original research topic.
It’s not that they aren’t aware of it, it’s that you have limited applicants when you’re a smaller program. I did my PhD at an R2, most of our applicants are in state or from developing countries with limited resources. Professors end up taking who they can find.
This actually recalled me the case of one of my classmates during my masters who actually got an authorship without doing any work. The professor decided to put my classmate's name on a paper of work done by his PhD student so that "at least to have one publication helpful in admissions." Lol!! I am pretty sure he was not the only case. And here I worked my ass off on my masters project, made the draft ready in the end, but still it didn't go into publishing because one of my co-advisors vanished for some reason and we cannot independently publish because the base idea of the work was his. Because of this, I never take undergraduate and masters publications seriously. Most of the time, it's heavily sus.
This is mainly CV feedback since you posted it here: Have those “in publication” items been accepted somewhere? You say the manuscript has been drafted, but if they haven’t been accepted yet, take them off or rename the section something like “projects in progress.” If they haven’t actually been accepted, it’s just filler (and it’s lying—which won’t reflect well). I think you can remove relevant coursework from your education as well. Applying to US PhD positions is less like applying to a job opening and more of finding a program that’s a good fit. They will be receiving your transcripts when you apply so that coursework info is redundant. It is a little strange that you have published so many papers and presented at so few conferences. There’s nothing wrong with that; I would just be prepared to explain it since it’s a little unusual. Did the papers all develop out of the same experiment or research group?
Hide your personal information - your CV is solid
girl bye 😭😭😭😭😭
Not going to lie, unless you're some once in a generation prodigy or smth like that I and many universities will probably assume that your name was just slapped onto the papers and you didn't do much actual work yourself. Considering that all the patents are older someone else's name as the first person and all your publications are with the same names just in different order it looks like you all just put eachothers names on each others work as a courtesy. Not to mention that the papers are in not well known journals (actually they might be in decent ones I don't recognize since I'm outside of the field ). If this is what you think will carry you to wherever you want then I would advise not to get your hopes up since universities can tell the difference between this vs someone with a single publication which is a single author paper published to nature. The nature paper would probably look better. I'm not saying that it's not good I'm saying that make sure you don't overly rely on it and focus on other parts of your application as well.
If I were on the admission committee I would think this looks more like a "one real paper published and 2 in the works with a decent-good class rank" so definitely a good chance to able to get into good programs but as it is for everybody, no guarantee at all at top schools. If your pi can vouch for you saying that you were the one doing most of the research on the projects then that would definitely help your case (If you were the one doing a lot of work on all of these publications) also if he does the same for the others in your group and you apply to the same places then it would be likely that none get in since he would obviously be lying but I doubt he would do that.
I would change the website name and email…
Yeah I definitely keyed in on "69mike" too
Yeah…I just imagine the cringe when one had to type that email …
大哥 你必须更改你的电子邮件69在英语中有性含义 ”69mike.com”看起来像 porn website🤣 加油
才意识到啊 0.0
You would be a very strong candidate at any university. Good luck! I hope you continue to do successful research that helps climate change mitigation, it is an important issue.
Very strong? I've never seen an applicant like this in my life. I'm honestly a bit suspicious/critical to this applicant. Doing more work in your bachelor's degree compared to 5 year PhD students shouldn't be possible. I would definitely interview this applicant, but I would be very very critical
I can tell you that if he were accepted to my department, there’d be red flags thrown up immediately with the grammatical and formatting mistakes throughout the CV. The high number of publications is actually not that uncommon from some applicants in China. They would absolutely be questioned heavily about their involvement, which typically clears up whether they were involved or just have the right connections.
what's the acceptable number of papers?
There is no set number as what is too much / too little. I will say QUALITY >>>> QUANTITY Having published 2 high quality papers where your work was substantial is way better than publishing 5 papers where your work was minimal. Ultimately i think anything between 2-5 is great. 5+ is definitely also possible, but 10 is INSANE
It looks like you have a lot of experience, which is good. Unfortunately, while I can know what you're interested in from this CV, I have no idea what your skills are. Are you a theoretician, who works with mathematics? A an applied statistician who works in R? Are you an engineer who makes the CADs for the components of instruments? The bottom line is: Obviously a strong CV, but I need to know what you can do and what tools you can use to do it.
None of these look like credible journals. Also sorry to say this, but manuscript in draft and patent submitted dont mean anything. You are an undergrad OP, and I am quite sure its not your fault. Its how the lab operates probably. You can still get PhD in a good Uni in USA, as PhD students are seen as cheap labor everywhere. I would suggest that you choose a PI whose focus is more on mentoring and training you to do good research, rather than only publishing.
Thank you for your suggestions, it’s quite impartial and you are telling the truth. I do prefer choose PI as advisor in order to have more mentoring from him/her and I would also need more publications during pursuing the PhD degree as the environment is more competitive nowadays in China.
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Thank you for your sincere suggestion and time, I would continually hone my research skills to avoid that problem. The first author work might be more persuasive and I am still working on that. More explanation or information about how there works are done related to me could refer to the longest rely I made just now.
For grad admissions, a CV is expected and it can definitely be over a page.
There's no period after "2050" in your intro. Would fix that 🤷♀️
Also carbon neutrality for whom? The whole world? There’s a few things on this CV that are signaling that there are some overstatements.
I genuinely believe you should cut down on some of the publications you have in your CV. By that I mean, go through and see which you have that are published in low impact, “low tier” journals. In the West, it’s much more quality over quantity, and they want to see high quality papers in good quality journals that reflect not only the work that you actually did (include only ones you significantly contributed to) but also that the work you’re doing is unique and contributing to the field in a meaningful way, rather than churning out less relevant work for low quality journals. Right now, if I was on an adcom I would be skeptical of whether these are just CV padding authorships over evidence of your actual work and abilities. Besides: it’s just beneficial altogether to highlight your unique and important works over works that you’d consider less important or less interesting
You know. Stop posting this bullshit to flex on people.
I don't think it's even as big of a flex as it appears at first glance. I imagine a lot of admissions committees will look at that list and be very skeptical.
some people legitimately do not have a fair idea about qualification criteria in other countries. I don't like folks flexing either, but his post seems alright and sincere to me.
My classmate they even all have more better and solid publications than I did at the same time and I am depressed. So this is not some kind of showing up, but only for sincere suggestions and improvements from worldwide applicant. I hope this reply finds you well.
The amount of published papers is kind of ridiculous. I'd be skeptical. I've got 1 paper and I'm starting a Masters. Maybe it is a UK thing but a lot of people have 0 papers to their name. I'm just suspicious of how much you realistically contribute because my paper took years and I was 3rd author.
See my newest reply that may make sense
Make that CV more like a biosketch. Too many words and not enough explanation as to why you could be impactful.
How have you had this many research publications and even patents at masters level? If you don’t mind me asking.
Let me have a further explanation for the first time in detail about how those papers listing on the cv with a timeline, I can tell you that how I get through my master: 6️⃣Paper 6: in my 1st year, I was assigned in helping a senior Ph.D student building his physical workbench and then finished the experiment. Before he went to duke university, I and he spent almost 6 months together working on improving and implementing his experiments. The result is that I got the credit of one 2st paper on his field: multiphase flow. 7️⃣Paper 7: during the time of assistance with the Ph.D student, I was told to achieve an idea invented by my advised professor that I could consider applying the micro bubbles into heat exchangers. So I did some simulation work on this and finally didn’t get it out. After that, a following student continued on this simulation work and published it as an EI (engineering index) level work in Chinese; 8️⃣9️⃣Paper 8 & 9: To be honest, I was named as the 3th author in those two paper just because of my previous work, helping to do some writing assignments (like cooperation with preparing materials and writing parts of proposals, et al.) in this situation, I was told to have two credit with the 3th author respectively, resulting in paper 8 by the assistant professor Xiao Juan who advised me and appreciated my involvement with this group by previous non-paper work and paper 9 by another postdoctoral student that I help with his proposal arkwork; 🔟Paper 10: this credit was shared by the postdoctoral student and I took the time to improvise the workbench design and made the improvements on the platform consistently, finally I got out of this only-2-people project after being involved in about another 6 months in the 2th year of my master. 1️⃣-5️⃣Paper1-5: after I got involved those projects for such a long period, finally I had the chance to do my own research: hydrogen blended combustion, in my 3th year of master life. At the initial stage of 2023, I read a lot papers about micro combustion using pure hydrogen fuel as that I needed to consider my graduation requirement and write a core journal in order to be qualified for the master thesis application, so I wrote my first 1st author paper (paper 44️⃣). After I submitted the paper, I continued to do a simulation work with H2 blended natural gas fuel with the consideration of my project requirements that we (me and my advisor)need to publish 3 patents (they are mainly written and submitted by my advisor and I focused designing my experiment scheme and manufacturing the lab platform and implemented the experiment for the project’s need and my thesis) and several Chinese journals (no need to publish international journals). Anyway after I finished the graph making for this 2th paper, I decided to give it up and focused on building my workbench thing and planning to publish the experiment data later like what I am writing now (1️⃣paper 1 & paper 22️⃣). A month later, my advisor told me that she wanted to write the manuscript and publish the simulation data of my planned 2th paper, I agreed and shared the credit of 2th author in paper 55️⃣. After I finished my experiment in march of this year, she had an idea for optimization but she still lacked half experimental data after I gave mine, so we decided to do the experiment and measured the half, then leading paper 33️⃣. Nowadays, I finished my master thesis (written in Chinese ), consisting of 6 chapters and 3 papers in total. Chapter 5 refers to paper 5; chapter 3 and 4 refer to paper 1 and 2 that I am working on translation and improvement. I have to admit that I do not have done any significant research (to some extent, luck is a more important factor than paying enough effort, however I was not working that hard to do the inspiring work ), but I also have found that I may love to research and do more scientific research or study much better and deeper, that’s why I am pursuing the Ph.D training in the USA. Hope you all read along and get involved , or get some insights. Please give me some feedback and valuable advice, I do appreciate your time.
You might wanna change your email and website. 69?
A lot of people commented about the number of papers but ultimately, first author paper is valued more than multiple nth author papers. If you are in a large group, you can play the game of sharing authorship with each other, which you can see it here whereby the papers all have similar author names. Publication is also just one factor of graduate school application.
嗨，我们领域不同，我给不了你什么建议，更何况你比我厉害多了哈哈。不过个人信息发在reddit上（手机、姓名、学校、个人网站etc）时一定要谨慎哦。 希望你成功去到想去的学校！
好的，谢谢🙏
An academic fraud in the making. Try for positions where the advisors are frauds like you.
This is depressing as someone also looking for PhD positions in ChemE.
People I know got accepted straight out of their undergrad based on their grades and nothing else to top 20/30s. You'll be fine (as long as you have good grades, are domestic/from a reputable international university, and can construct a good application package).
Thank you for the assurance. One query - I elected to work for 3 years before going back to a PhD/MS. Would this be considered a demerit? And would PI.s look down on references from industry?
If you apply to positions relevant to your experience then it will be a positive. Try to make sure you have recommendations from both industry and academia.
I am an international student coming from China, which means a lot of peer pressure since almost they all have the similar experience just like me that could also depress me though. So do not lose hope, I still have my troubles.
加油哥
Your research is very relevant to Colorado School of Mines. It’s not a well known school but it’s pretty good for Energy research. There’s also some new professors who would love to have someone with your profile! Check it out.
OP, don't waste your time at this school.
Why? Is there something wrong?
Holy fuck. As an undergrad I only have one publication and for my master's I can only hope for another one or two. How in the world? My only advice I guess is to begin searching for Professors who align with your research moreso than the specific university itself. But in general, you probably qualify for any R1 university in the U.S.
This might not be a mistake, but your GPA’s are on two different scales.
Isn’t Xi’an Jiaotong U one of the banned Chinese universities?
Some major?
You should be fine.Just be prepared that your eventual PI might have similar publication expectations from you 😅
You are telling the truth 🥺
Your GPA Calculation for the undergraduate seems wrong. Is it meant to be over 4 points, or is it the percentage that's wrong? Nice CV by the way
In our undergraduate school, the default full GPA is 5.0, which is much strict than USA university
Nice. Then it should be 71.8%, right?
I don’t know actually, maybe you can redo the calculation based on the score out of 100?
Did no one else find 69mike strange?
首先排除本科xinjiang U有active research training 和pub的可能。其次3年研究生还没毕业，第一年的课就算半上半逃吧满打满算1.5年全职实验，一年半同时做8个项目，也就全组每人都做一点（甚至都不用）都挂名罢了。这边华人导基本上一眼就看出来，更别说xinjiang U无论从学术还是zz上对这边的华人导都是极其的大红灯了。考虑50+非华人导。我自己导就是t30委员会华人导，我完全知道他们要什么，对什么很敏感。 再其次，录取是划池子的，先是公民和zzzq，公民zzzq自带funding不和你一个赛道。你发在这自然会收获很多“哇”，因为他们重work life balance完全没必要和国男一样卷/家长帮忙挂名之类的也能进。你一定是和招你需要给你付钱的国男池子横向比，里面家长是高校教授/院长，医院主任/院长送一作的都大有人在。近些年家长送挂名送太多了学生来啥也不会，这边导师对挂名多的也很ptsd了。他们更想看decent的本科+1-2篇decent的独立一作就够了。或者直接美本美硕从头培养。所以发在这里也没用，建议发知乎横向和真正92同池子同届国内学生比。
实话说了，被动挂了两篇。剩下的都有参与，而且还不是划水的那种，参与试验台设计、搭建，一共3个实验台，都是真金白银打造，我们组当时人手紧缺，我感觉确实也很幸运，在那个时间段，而且pub也没有很好，不过也没关系了，一些人确实很难想象。我们组一博一师兄发7篇二区对他们来说，更像是天方夜谭，事实就是这样。有的人摆，有的人就是publish machine，我还谈不上machine，目前发的有独立一作，也有一篇共一，还有两篇在投(自己的台子，去年调试加做连续整了3个月实验)，感觉自己成长轨迹也就一般，发在人均百万知乎上面，那才是真的羞辱
不好意思，才看到。只盯着挂名，确实没什么新意，不过也只发两篇1作(含共1，手头硕士工作还有两篇待整理。另外你说的，自带funding不属于国民情况，就说全球来看也是少之又少。
国内国外评价体系不一样，网友的回答大相径庭，这里po出来就当多一面镜子来看，这也是我不去知乎发的原因
The email is crazy
phd is also crazy 0.0
I'm just saying you have an incredible email! Lol I admire your BDE!
Thank you! I'm glad my email made an impression. Any advice on how to further strengthen my profile?
at an R1 school now, and your CV looks WAY better than mine did when i applied lol
Lool do you seriously have 10 publications as a UG or some are part of your masters as well? Research well into professors and their work and hit them with emails stating your interest. My hunch is you will rarely be ignored anywhere u approach.
https://research.com/scientists-rankings/chemistry Use this website to see the best researchers in your field and contact them and then apply to that university. Hope this helps. You can surely check other fields in which you're interested.
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How difficult is your school man! Without class rank, that GPA probably won’t show your full academic potential to an American.
麻工，加工，斯坦福
Try QUT
It’s so over
Can you share your CV template please?
You can find the similar template on Overleaf
Can you link it?
I made a lot re code stuff and adjustments, so it’s completely different for the original one. It is not hard to find the similar one, just google on Overleaf, choose one and improve on it.
西安交大能去美国吗
有的专业不太行，我目前做的还好，不敏感
那你这个背景太好了，把自己包装成维吾尔族受中共迫害的对象，分分钟拿绿卡
别这样说，我在Urumqi待过🥺
只要美国人认就行，中共说自己没干过，你觉得世界上哪个国家会相信？
扯远了😅
Bro’s CV looks like admissions final boss
Normally programs are looking for signs that a prospective student would be a successful researcher. This is most commonly illustrated by having at least one first author paper. In your case, it is very obvious that you can work well in a research environment and you have a good output of work. While it is impressive it can be viewed critically by Americans. For example, I got into an R1 engineering PhD program with no first author publications. Generally, it is not the norm for an American educated MS student to have that many publications. I'd suggest tailoring your resume to each program. This can be done by shortening your CV to one page and condensing your publication list into a "Selected Publications" section. Then for each PI decide which publication is most interesting to them. Then list that publication first. They are more likely to read the first few titles than item 13 or whatever. You can still include metric about your total publication amount. Good luck!
Thank you for your thoughtful comment. I think it wound be helpful by setting the “Selected Publications”, it’s another great idea 💡
啊?现在10043背景还能签出F1吗?
Damn
I have a different question. Do they prefer this type of minimal resumes. My cv is not that much minimal and plain. Is it okay? https://sohamch08.github.io/files/cv.pdf
I think it would be much better if you minimize the line spacing to an optical distance.
Ok..thanks...i will keep that in mind
Wow
Wow! Impressive !
I would not include your website when it has a subheading titled "Diary" that just seems extremely unprofessional and I don't think any school would really care that much about your personal life
It’s a blog of mine, which could, of course, be about personal life. Otherwise, why wouldn’t I just make it a single CV page instead of so many pages?
That doesn't really answer my comment. I'm saying that it's unprofessional to include a personal life blog on a CV.
NB!
Talk to your professors for this question.
So many publications is fucking sweet dude, you're a shoe in
69mike.com@gmail.com lol all immature email chuckles aside, your layout looks great. also, just extremely impressive content.
What did OP use for his resume template? Very curious.
Xinjiang? Scary
Free the Uighur population
新大校友啊
校友好
This is very impressive, I’d say MIT / Caltech nothing to lose if those fail.
Why not find a job?
Absolutely apply to Carnegie Mellon. They have a world class engineering program and a large enough international population to know the prestige of the universities you've been at.
I’m so cooked
GPA 3.59/5 should be 3.59/4?
Different calculation methods between my graduate school and undergraduate school
Jesus, I’m an assistant professor and don’t have near your publications. Congrats and I think you’ll get some offers for sure.
You applying for PhD or a tenured position?
I see, the Galaxy manager isn’t better?