I came across muckrack.com — I found two of my articles there, but they’re linked to someone else who has my exact name. Has anyone used this platform when preparing for EB-1A? How important is it for the petition, and how do you deal with the situation when your publications are listed under a namesake?
Muckrack for EB-1A is more of an auxiliary tool — in a technical field like data engineering it shows media coverage, but does not replace the main package. There are actually two different criteria: articles about you in the media (interviews, pieces specifically about YOU) — that’s one, and your own expert articles in scholarly journals and IEEE — that’s the other. Muckrack helps with the first criterion.
About the namesake — in Muckrack there is a “claim profile” feature: you register and add your articles via DOI. When I dealt with a similar attribution problem in Google Scholar, I wrote to support — they resolved it in four business days. Muckrack’s logic is similar; there is also manual verification via the publication’s email domain.
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