{"id":1804,"date":"2008-01-21T22:57:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T05:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2008-01-21T22:57:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T05:57:59","slug":"pseudonyms-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/01\/21\/pseudonyms-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Pseudonyms in Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago a message from Kris Krogh appeared on Scirate.com about <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0712.3934\">ariXiv:0712.3934<\/a> stating Kris&#8217; belief that the paper appeared under a pseudonym (the comment contains the contents of the link which was sent to the arxiv&#8217;s administrator.)  Today I checked with the arxiv and found that <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0712.3934\">the paper<\/a> had been removed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This submission has been removed because &#8216;G.Forst&#8217; is a pseudonym of a physicist based in Italy who is unwilling to submit articles under his own name. This is in explicit violation of arXiv policies.<br \/>\nRoughly similar content, contrasting the relative merits of the LAGEOS and GP-B measurements of the frame-dragging effect, can be found in pp. 43&#8211;45 of: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v449\/n7158\/pdf\/nature06071.pdf\">this http URL<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Humorously (I guess) while the statement goes to pains to not name the Italian physicist, the link is to a Nature article&#8230;by an Italian physicist.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve often wondered about pseudonyms on the arxiv and when I would see an article authored by someone in such a manner.  But reading this, I was trying to think of whether there have been any famous scientists who have used pseudonyms.  Anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago a message from Kris Krogh appeared on Scirate.com about ariXiv:0712.3934 stating Kris&#8217; belief that the paper appeared under a pseudonym (the comment contains the contents of the link which was sent to the arxiv&#8217;s administrator.) Today I checked with the arxiv and found that the paper had been removed: This submission has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/01\/21\/pseudonyms-in-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pseudonyms in Science?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53,71,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-science-2-0","category-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}