EVIDENCE7 min
Citation Maps as a Standalone Exhibit: The Underused EB-1A Multiplier
Why USPTO and Google Scholar citation cartography belongs in your original contribution binder.
Citation counts are useful; citation maps are persuasive. A well-rendered citation cartography exhibit shows the adjudicator, at a glance, that your work has been built upon by independent practitioners in commercially or academically meaningful contexts.
Build the exhibit as a standalone appendix: source data on the left, downstream citations on the right, with the affiliations and impact of each citing party annotated inline. The visual density does work that prose cannot — it transforms a list of numbers into a topology of influence.