# Authorship

#### Page contents <a href="#how-do-i-confirm-authorship-of-my-publication" id="how-do-i-confirm-authorship-of-my-publication"></a>

* [How to confirm authorship of your publication](#how-do-i-confirm-authorship-of-my-publication-1)
* [How to confirm authorship of research published under a different name](#how-to-confirm-authorship-of-research-published-under-a-different-name)
* [Confirming authorship vs. adding a publication manually](#confirming-authorship-vs.-adding-a-publication-manually)
* [If a publication in your profile doesn’t belong to you](#if-a-publication-in-your-profile-doesnt-belong-to-you)
* [Editing co-author information](#adding-editing-and-removing-co-author-information.1)
* [If another researcher has claimed your publications](#if-another-researcher-has-claimed-your-publications)
* [If suggested publications are not yours](#if-suggested-publications-are-not-yours)
* [Scientific contributions pages](#scientific-contributions-pages.1)

#### How to confirm authorship of your publication <a href="#how-do-i-confirm-authorship-of-my-publication" id="how-do-i-confirm-authorship-of-my-publication"></a>

If a publication page for your research is already on ResearchGate but not yet linked to your account, you can claim authorship to add it to your profile.

1. Go to the publication's page.
2. On the right-hand side, click the **More** button.
3. Select **Claim authorship - is this your work?** from the drop-down list.
4. Choose your name from the list or click **+ Add name** to request adding your name to the author list. A box will appear for you to add additional information.
5. Click on the blue **Request authorship** button.

Please note that all authorship requests are manually curated and may take some time. We appreciate your patience.

Note: We do not currently add collaborators, translators, consortiums, or signatories to the author lists of publications unless their names are explicitly stated on the full-text of the publication in the main author list. We are working on a better way to represent the contributions that researchers in these positions have made to these publications.

* For edited books: If editors' names appear on the cover, they can confirm authorship of the entire book, while chapter authors can confirm authorship of their individual chapters.
* For conference proceedings: Editors may appear in the author list, while individual conference papers and their authors should be added separately as individual publications.

#### How to confirm authorship of research published under a different name

If you published a research item under a different name, you can add an alternative name to your profile to easily confirm authorship.

1. Go to your [profile](https://www.researchgate.net/go.Profile.html?pli=1).
2. Click **Edit** at the top of your profile, to the right of your name.
3. Click **Edit name**.
4. Click **Add alternative name** if you don’t already have one.
5. Fill out the name fields under **Alternative name** and click **Save**.

Note: For security reasons, you can only change your name once within a 30-day period.

You can now more easily claim publications you published under either name.

#### Confirming authorship vs. adding a publication manually

When you confirm authorship of a publication on ResearchGate, you are confirming that you are the author of a publication that is already listed in our database. When you add a publication manually, it just means that it wasn’t yet listed in our database.

#### If a publication in your profile doesn’t belong to you

We try our best to accurately match publications to their authors, but mistakes can sometimes be made. The best way to remove a publication from your profile is to:

1. Go to your profile’s **Research** tab
2. Use the search tool and enter the title, then click on the downward-facing arrow below the publication you want to remove
3. Click **Remove**
4. Choose the option to **Remove publication page from profile**
5. Click **Remove publication page.**

If you need to remove more than one publication, you can do this by going to your **Research** tab and clicking on the pencil icon above your list of publications. You can then deselect the items you would like to remove from your profile.

#### Editing co-author information <a href="#adding-editing-and-removing-co-author-information.1" id="adding-editing-and-removing-co-author-information.1"></a>

The best way to add, edit, or remove wrongly claimed co-author information from a publication is to:

1. Go to your publication's page by clicking on the title
2. Click the **More** button at the top right of the page and select **Edit** from the drop-down list
3. Under **Authors** click **Request edit**
4. Edit the **Authors** field as appropriate and submit changes.

**Note**: We review author changes manually, so there may be a short delay before your publication is updated.

#### If another researcher has claimed your publications

If another researcher has claimed your publication, it is usually the result of an honest mistake. To resolve this:

1. Go to the publication page by clicking on the publication's title.
2. Click the **More** button at the top right of the page and select **Claim authorship - is this your work?** from the drop-down list.
3. Select the author name you published under, or add it if it's not yet appearing.
4. Click on the blue **Request authorship** button.

We take erroneous authorship claims very seriously and review each case manually. As this can sometimes take a while, we appreciate your patience during this process.

#### If suggested publications are not yours

ResearchGate's authorship suggestions are designed to help you claim your publications effectively. If a suggested publication is not yours, you can always click **This is not me**. This helps our algorithm make more informed suggestions in the future. You’ll find the page where you can click **This is not me** [here](https://www.researchgate.net/profile.ProfileAuthorClusterClaim.html).

The best advice we can offer is to continue declining authorship of articles that are not yours. The algorithm will suggest fewer irrelevant publications over time.

#### **Scientific contributions pages** <a href="#scientific-contributions-pages.1" id="scientific-contributions-pages.1"></a>

When browsing ResearchGate, you might encounter a scientific contributions page with your name or that of a colleague/co-author. These pages are created by ResearchGate and list published scientific works, automatically generated from publicly available bibliographic data. They differ from profile pages, which are controlled by members.

To claim your scientific contributions page (and all the publications associated with it), click on **Are you (Firstname Lastname)?** at the top right-hand side of the page. The contributions page will then be merged with your ResearchGate profile.

If you know the researcher who should claim this scientific contributions page, click on the **Invite** button on the right-hand side. You'll be prompted to enter their email address, which will send an email suggesting the contributions page to them.


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