I recently published at a prestigious conference and I am a solo author. I also do not affiliate to any company or university at the time or during the writing of the paper(I will start my PhD in Fall). What should I write under my name in the camera-ready copy? Currently, I have "Independent Researcher". Is it fine?
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Do you have to write anything at all? Can you just put your name and nothing else?– Nate EldredgeCommented Aug 22, 2023 at 16:31
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Yes, Independent Researcher is fine and recognized. If asked for an email as well, try to use one that you know will last, hopefully forever. (Impossible to guarantee, of course.)
If the research was done while you still were at another University, you can site that affiliation - even if you are not working/studying there anymore. This could be also explicitly mentioned in the paper (like a footnote that The research was done while working at...)
People also cite their companies or other actual workplace - this may include one's own company, if one functions as a freelancer (in many western countries freelancing legally actually implies an existence of a registered company.)
The problem with writing Independent Researcher is that no one knows what exactly is meant by this words - one could just as well write a Cat Lover or anything of the kind (no offense intended.)
