Approved
Radiation Oncology
Assistant Professor at time of filing
The proposed endeavor
Research and serve as faculty at a US university in radiation oncology.
Why it turned out this way
Zero citations, approved in two months. Weight fell on seven recommendation letters, professional memberships, and active research.
Analysis
counterexample
The strongest single rebuttal in the corpus to the belief that citations are a prerequisite: an explicitly reported count of 0, approved without an RFE.