Once entered, correct or wrong, you cannot edit. Request the wrong persons to be careful in future and present wrong entries seek help from RG support.

One more option, you can delete the papers and re-upload again. However, you will loose your reads, recommendations and comments, if any.

Please see the link below from researchgate. They have discussed the same problem many times. It looks like many authors are currently having the same problem.

on April 12, 2014

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_remove_Co-Authors

March 15, 2018

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Some_of_my_papers_had_biin_assigned_to_wrong_co-author_How_could_this_be_repaired

It is quite unusual and should not be done from the person's end whosoever is doing this cheap job for earning quick "names".

But from your end, you can do two things:

1. Your 1st option may be that you just ignore it.

2. Your 2nd option is that you go on protesting and put on record in as many forum and academic platform you can ........making others informed and cautious regarding this type of activity with FULL NAME of that/those author(s).

The question is: how can a researcher ethically do this? If he entend to do this, What will happen after that?

I think you can write full address while submitting next paper like section, division, room no etc. This I think will remove plagiarism of name, or write full name

Dear Doctor Sahib!

The best way to get rid of this unethical affaair is to lodge a complaint to ResearcGate Contact (https://www.researchgate.net/contact). Then go with second option

Didn't find what you were looking for in the help center?

After clicking over the the above option, you will get many options to go with but to address your issue you needs to click over the below title

"The wrong author is listed as the author of a paper"

Then submit your complaint as given below

"Our publication-search algorithm helps people quickly confirm authorship of their publications on ResearchGate. The ease of this one-click process means occasional mistakes occur. If another researcher has incorrectly claimed to be the author of a paper, it is usually the result of an honest mistake.

If you notice that someone has mistakenly claimed authorship of a publication(s), please provide the ResearchGate URL of the researcher who incorrectly claimed authorship of the publication(s), as well as the link(s) to any affected ResearchGate publication page(s).

We take erroneous authorship claims very seriously and review each case manually – thank you for your patience".

Hope your issue will get resolved in few days time.

Hi,

I think the best is to either delete the article and re-enter it or complain to RG. I'm not sure that these authors did it on purpose. You tend to receive a lot of notifications that RG found this matching publication and ask you if you are a coauthor. So maybe they simply did a mistake. I had a similar case where lots of my Articles were with the Name A. Marques, and RG just assigned the A. Marques which was in RG but this one was not the real coauthor of my publication. But If I remember correctly, I could correct that manually using the edit function.

Oh ok I see your problem, so some of these articles were still problematic for me now. The only thing you can do in edit is to say that this is an uncorrect author.... I did this let see what happens

i am unable to claim authorship of many articles as someone else has used his name. its ridiculous that medical science paper has a guy of same name from engineering side as co author. what to do