回複：Dear Xiaobaitu, Worthit, fsa2000, and lovewind, please he

I agreed with fsa2000 for most of the points.
The only thing that I want to mention is, you can prove your impact to the field by independent recommendation letters. If you can get big guy in your field to write you recommendation letters, stating that your research finding is very important to his work, that would be helpful to your case.