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I publish under a one-word name, which Google Scholar does not index. What can I do?

Academia Asked by Abhishta on November 25, 2021

I publish under a single name (no last name). As Google Scholar does not recognise me as an author I face several issues with citation counts and wrong bibliographic data being available in Google Scholar. I have reported this issue several times through the contact us form for Scholar but I just get an automated response from them. What can I do?

Example: When you search my name in scholar, my papers appear not because I am an author but because I am a word in the paper. Google does not index me as an author. So, if some one cites my work as Abhishta et. al. Google has no idea who is being cited.

This situation is a different from the questions that are asked before on this forum as the former questions were discussing problems that journals require multiple names for an author but in this case, the publisher is fine with having a single name and the paper is already published. However there are problems with Scholar indexing the data of the paper.

First author indexed by Google as

Actual authors of the paper

2 Answers

Google scholar is imperfect. It's based on an automatic parser, rather than human curation. I've seen it make all kinds of mistakes.

What can you do? You already have set up a profile that has the correct information. You can try contacting Google, but don't expect much from them. I doubt they have the resources to deal with everyone who contacts them with an issue. However, they are always improving their algorithm and this may get resolved.

The only other thing I think you can do is alter how your name appears on papers to conform to western expectations, as suggested in this question: I have only one name shown in my ID card. How do I write my name (surname) in research paper or article?

Overall, I wouldn't worry too much about it. It is easy enough to find your publications online and any human reader will understand that you are mononymous.

Answered by Thomas on November 25, 2021

Dirty hack: write your papers under your one name, twice. (Prince Prince)

Answered by Industrademic on November 25, 2021

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