It turns out that I have a lot more citations than I thought. And I didn’t know about them because esteemed scholars can’t copy my last name without mistakes.
I understand that it’s a weird name because it’s completely fake but one expects better from scholars. I wonder how many of them would remember to justify margins and save the file as requested.
Just out of curiosity, do journals issue corrections for that kind of thing?
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Only if somebody complains, but for the most people do not.
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If you didn’t know about them, how would the people checking the number of your citations (aka tenure committees and such) know?
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Exactly. It is my responsibility to hunt down the citations and provide them. And so it’s my problem how I’m doing it.
People are kind, so they are now sending me citations if they encounter them in their work. For instance, my former thesis adviser recently informed me that the scholar who is actually my academic idol has cited me. And I had no idea!
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This is where researcher ids like Orchis are really useful – I have a different problem in that I have a fairly common name but I write academically using both of my forenames – so I’m known as Betty Smith, say, but the name I use academically is Anne Bettina Smith or A. Bettina Smith or A.B. Smith depending on the journal’s conventions. BUT typos do get in – my papers can be cited or listed as B.A. Smith, A. Smith, B. Smith, A. Smyth, A. Bettinasmith etc as well as the variants I actually use. It’s well worth the time to go through your database tying your papers to your researcher id, as it does help with the problem… and indeed just typing in variants of your name to a search engine…
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I was so glad to have the last name that nobody in my field is remotely likely to share but I’m now seeing that this has some downsides.
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