Dear
Recently I received an email from Research Gate saying that a person named Hayleen Garcia co-authored some of our publications, but that is not correct. One example of that is: Expression of genes coding for selected amino acid transporters in small intestine, liver, and skeletal muscle of pigs fed excess branched-chain amino acids (Genetics and Molecular Research Journal). The actual names of the authors are: Miguel Cervantes, Nestor Arce, Héctor García, Margarita Cota, John K. Htoo and Adriana Morales. Apparently, Hayleen García pretends to be Hector García. There are five more papers with the same false claims. The title page of those publications shwocased in the Research Gate web site had the whole name of that person (Hayleen García), but these journals include only the first name initials.
Thus, this person seems to be committing fraud by pretending being Héctor García.
Please be aware of this apparent publication fraud by Hayleen García. Can Research Gate do anything to prevent this kind of situation? Thanks
Miguel Cervantes
See "Another researcher has claimed my publications" in https://help.researchgate.net/hc/en-us/articles/14292798510993 for instructions how to correct this. But unlike this help page suggests, most probably it was not Hayleen García herself who wrongly claimed authorship, but ResearchGate's automatic algorithm wrongly identified her as the author and assigned your publication to her profile. This is a frequent problem in ResearchGate in case of similar names. I would be able to send you several dozen similar complaints by RG users. - One of the problems is that in your paper no first names are given, just initials. I know this is the usual style in many journals, but this increases the difficulties for an automated identification of authors. By the way, this is also a problem for historians. Using ORCID numbers would be helpful, but most researchers do not have such a number.
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