In publication, it is important to have the family name and the first name written exactly the same as your birth certificate, your passport, your degrees. The family name is the part which spelled completely in all citations and references. The first name, some journals spell it fully or just the first initial. The middle name {the father name} not always considered by all journals.

In publication, it is important to have the family name and the first name written exactly the same as your birth certificate, your passport, your degrees. The family name is the part which spelled completely in all citations and references. The first name, some journals spell it fully or just the first initial. The middle name {the father name} not always considered by all journals.

Sir Thank you so much for your response. It means I can do the addition. My family name & first name which is "Muhammad Farooq", I am not changing it. It is there as it is. I have just added "Buzdar".

I can write "Muhammad Farooq Buzdar".

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If your name in your Official Documents is Muhammad Farooq then i recommend you to keep as Muhammad Farooq. If you are adding your Family name as Muhammad Farooq Buzdar and your name in Documents are Muhammad Farooq then you have to correct your name in your Documents also as Muhammad Farooq Buzdar.

Your Position of work and Qualfications and Designation also confirms that it is you who is part of Article or Research Publication. In case your name is little different in Article Published. Better to correct the name in Documents and Articles as same.

Regards

Hi,

A unified identifiable name is important for the sake of citations. A change in your name could omit citations from the total number of citations because the indexing systems will identify you as another person.

This happened to me, that at a certain time I decided to add to my name a middle name in one of my papers, and since then, all indexing systems could not identify this single article as part of all my papers, but as a separate item that its citations are not included in the total number of my citations.

In my opinion, addition of this type is not going to affect you anyway.

Nothing wrong in using your family name or surname. Many journal publication they consider only first name and surname(or Last name). Only in Government related documents we cant change without official authorization.

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Thank you every one for your kind response. Although I can see many researchers guided me that I can extend my name, but I am going with those who said to keep the original name. I am doing this to

1-Avoid some identity crises

2-May be my Govt rules change, some legal issues can happen

3-Attending conferences [ Keeping in view changing/strict rules of USA and other countries for visitors, different name on documents and conference paper can cause problems ]

4-To avoid ownership related issues

5-To avoid citations loss

6- I came to know about ORICD profile, where with one code you can help the publishers to identify you, despite of having more than one same name scholars.

Thank you so much every one for your guidance. I am very grateful for your time & advise.

I hope my decision/above wrote point will also help others in taking decision during these kind of situations.