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Anglo-Saxon conventions in handling author names in the academy negatively affect scholars around the world. Academia can and must take steps to change this, writes Victoria Guazzelli Williamson.

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Acknowledgements

The author thanks collaborators, mentors and scholars, many of whom have been contending with these issues long before she entered the field, for their advocacy and support on this topic. She thanks C. Machle, E. Berger, L. Magis-Weinberg, J. H. Pfeifer and T. W. Cheng for their stimulating discussion and feedback on previous versions of this article.

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Guazzelli Williamson, V. Academia should respect and use authors’ preferred names. Nat Hum Behav 7, 1415–1416 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01690-x

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