Say, I want to publish a research paper. But, for some reason, I don't want to expose my identity.
Is it possible to publish a research paper using an alias?
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Sign up to join this communitySay, I want to publish a research paper. But, for some reason, I don't want to expose my identity.
Is it possible to publish a research paper using an alias?
Yes, it's possible and plenty of people will have done it.
Rather than try to repeat what has already been said in other answers on this forum, I'd invite you to take a look at the many questions that deal with what name people should choose when publishing articles. The short is:
You can find some more considerations in the answers to other questions.
But it's possible that I misunderstand the question. Maybe you are interested in a one-off publication under a pseudonym because you don't want to be identified as the author? That's uncommon, and as an editor in a journal I would strongly argue against this because the free exchange of ideas also requires that one can have a conversation with an author. If the author doesn't want to be identified, that's not possible, and it's to the detriment of the development of science -- even though I understand that there are cases where a younger colleague may not want to write a critique of some senior scholar's publications, for example. I understand that such cases happen, and I get that publishing under a pseudonym is one solution that one can pursue, but I still think that that's not quite the right avenue either.
Yes it's possible, although you probably have to convince the editor why you'd want to do that.