Questions tagged [personal-name]
On the use of an individual's name in academia, including but not necessarily limited to publishing. Do not use this tag for questions related to academic vocabulary and phrases; use 'terminology' instead.
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Publishing Under Pseudonym/Future Name? [duplicate]
I am currently in the process of getting my legal name changed (It's a bit of a process since I'm usually outside of my home state) and though I'm not looking to publish anytime soon, if I do publish ...
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How to cite sources from the same author with conflicting last names?
I'm using the APA citation style. The author in question is Spanish. In one paper, he uses the format "John Forbes". In the other, he uses "John Forbes Nash". It feels weird to ...
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Publishing with initial as first name & middle and last name spelled out in full
I guess this is not very common as I have not encountered it yet, but would it be to my disadvantage if I published as "Initial of the First Name - Middle Name - Surname". For context, I'm a ...
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Regarding name change after marriage [duplicate]
I have about 500 citations on Google Scholar on 10-15 of my research papers. My partner and I started talking about name change. Basically, we’re thinking of use each other’s last names as our middle ...
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Proving authorship and names on public magazines when name in publications does not match name in passport [duplicate]
My official passport name is very long Mukhammadyusuf Fakhriddinov that's why I use Yusuf Fakhriddinov on my publications, also on most websites I use shorter name. Will it cause any confusion in the ...
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How would using pseudonym for an article impact career? How can I still gain credit? [duplicate]
I am a student in the humanities and for my Masters degree dissertation I did an ethnographic research on a rather politically sensitive topic. I would love to publish an article or two about my ...
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Using preferred name in publications - Green card application
I intend to apply for a green card in the US after my PhD. I want to use my family name in my publications. However, it's not the same name in my passport (legal name). How difficult will it be to ...
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Is it a good idea to add an invented middle name on arXiv and other repositories for scientific papers?
As the profile indicates, my name is Max Muller. I've recently started working on a dual PhD on process mining and natural language processing at a university and a governmental institution in the ...
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Handling alternate spellings of a personal name
Dealing with a text that mentions several times the architectural historian Siegfried Giedion. A number of Giedion's books feature his first name as "Sigfried" and others as "Siegfried.&...
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Are there any papers where two (or more) authors share the same full name?
Because of reasons, I'm curious to know whether there are any simple examples of papers where two or more authors have the same full name.
(To be clear: I am only interested in exact full-name matches....
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Academic Name Decision
I was just wondering about academic names for publication. Why do some writers use initials then surname (for me it would be A.D.R MacLean), some their names with initials (Aidan D.R. MacLean), and ...
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Do indexing services update papers after a name change?
I am transgender woman and recently updated my name (which also changed my initials). In addition, I retroactively updated my name on most of the papers that I have published in the last couple of ...
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Changing my legal name for research
I'm in the process of applying to graduate school.
Previous to this, I published an article under the name "Usama B. Ayasrah". At the moment, I'm working on my second article. My MSc ...
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In general, how does one cite publications written by poorly known authors with three names? Is the name in the middle a first or last name?
Sometimes I want to cite a PhD thesis of someone who has a name in three parts. The latest example I came across was "Richard Shope Davis". Shope sounds like a last name, but is there a way ...
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Why do Western universities seem to have trouble with Chinese names? [closed]
I've seen this happen enough times to start wondering.
For example, take the name "Ting Chao Chung", a Chinese-American Nobel laureate. Ting (丁) is the last name, and "Chao Chung" (...
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