PS: I have notified the author with my same surname, but so far, no response.

Dear Daniel Michael Strickland ,

I know this ignoring behavior of the foreign author from a similar case of a colleague of mine. He did not react on appropriate messages.

So I think the only way is to complain/report at

[email protected]

about that situation with a list of your papers will are claimed by the foreign author.

Good luck

please keep us up to date if there is any progress;

thanks in advance

Yes Daniel - as Gerhard rightly hints - some will more than happily 'ride on your coat-tails'. That person will have 'consciously' made the decision to accept that they are the author when mistakenly invited by RG - even if they are not - so they are unlikely to respond to you knowing this. You can 'follow' them on RG which will then allow you to message them directly.

Dear Daniel Michael Strickland ,

alternatively you may go to:

https://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/Authorship

and scroll down the page to the last section and follow the instructions.

That is just your situation....

Good luck

I have done this several times now. No change.

I will try the email.

Dear Daniel Michael Strickland ,

to my experience, when contacting the researchgate people via appropriate internal RG channels or via E-mail, you will after a while (up to some days) get some kind of a ticket number and an anwers via E-mail that things are picked up and will further be processed....

That's a very interesting topic and lesson to learn.

I don't know yet how to handle the same problem and hopefully, that will not happen to me. Thank you so much, Sir Daniel Michael Strickland and kind regards.

Dear Daniel Michael Strickland, if you follow the advice by Dean Whitehead and Gerhard Martens you should be able to solve this problem. In my experience, the RG team normally answers after a few days. Did you check Google Scholar and Scopus as well?

I sent the support email a couple days ago, but Mailtrack says it has not been opened yet. Probably because of the holiday in the US.

No response from the incorrect author after 2 queries over a 6 month period. She must not read her messages.

Not sure I really care about Google Scholar or Scopus. Should I?

Dear Daniel Michael Strickland, yes, definitely! In my personal experience, Scopus provides the most reliable results. Google Scholar often shows significantly more citations than RG and Scopus.

Frank, I checked SCOPUS. The other author doesn't even show up on an author search. I tried with various versions of her first name, including just the first initial.

Nada Very Interesting.

In Google Scholar there is nothing by her. And a search for my own name brings up thousands of references, few of which are mine.

Now I understand why there is nada in Scopus or Scholar. She has 18 citations here in RG _ ALL 18 are mine! :-(

So it is high time to get in touch with RG.....

But response from RG takes a while....

Good luck Daniel