Dear Shovana,

What you say occurs too often, namely when we are cited by our USA colleague. For example, my family name is Lourenço. However, when my papers are cited, instead of Lourenço ("c" with a cedile) too often appears Lourenco, a name, surname, or family name that does exists in my mother tongue, Portuguese. I use to inform the Editor-in-Chief to pay attention to this detail. For him/her the detail may appear irrelevant. This is not true for me, because when I read Lourenco instead of Lourenço, I kind of losing, as it were, part of my seld and identity. The same is the case when I am called Lourenco instead of Lourenço.

Kind regards,

Orlando

Dear Shovana,

What you say occurs too often, namely when we are cited by our USA colleague. For example, my family name is Lourenço. However, when my papers are cited, instead of Lourenço ("c" with a cedile) too often appears Lourenco, a name, surname, or family name that does exists in my mother tongue, Portuguese. I use to inform the Editor-in-Chief to pay attention to this detail. For him/her the detail may appear irrelevant. This is not true for me, because when I read Lourenco instead of Lourenço, I kind of losing, as it were, part of my seld and identity. The same is the case when I am called Lourenco instead of Lourenço.

Kind regards,

Orlando

Is a problem for all serious journal editors. I would suggest writing a letter to a top-tier journal one of your articles has appeared in and point out examples of such mistakes and;

1. Ask the journal editor if there a remedy because it a global problem across languages.

2. Send your letter to several journal editors and point out the problem as it appears in the journal editor’s specific journal.

3. Then send letter with multiple examples to an “association of journal editors” and ask them if they feel that this a global problem and how to best remedy it.

4. Send your letter with examples to a top-tier peer journal in the U.S. and U.K. for their responses.

5. Send your letter to an “association of journal editors” in the U.S. and U.K. as it is a global problem.

I think you have to take initial reports of your data save, so that no body can steal you in any way.

Dear All (Orlando M Lourenço, Dennis Mazur , Mubashar Shah),

Thank you for your time and invaluable suggestions.

I will try to act accordingly.

Regards

Shovana

Dear,

you should send mail to Editor and Author. Also, and to coauthors. However, YOU should take care that your works are signed according to publishers' rules.