#introduction: my battles
I was the first trans person to change my name on already-published research papers. I didn't think I was the first when I did it, which helped.
I'm part of the Name Change Policy Working Group (https://ncpwg.org) to make this easier for others. Many journals now allow name changes.
Google Scholar refuses to call trans authors by their names, or even talk to trans people. I made https://scholar.hasfailed.us. Google should either listen to us or shut down Scholar.
If you know a #Google employee, ask them what they are doing to shut down Google Scholar.
It is one of the few places on the Internet where calling a trans person by their deadname is standard and expected. The other places are hate sites and the New York Times.
@arborelia is this a problem with google scholar or with the papers they index? Asking as a trans academic with a publication in my dead name.
@celesteh you can change papers! NCPWG can help if you can’t figure out who to talk to, or if your publisher claims they don’t do that.
Google Scholar, however, will down-rank the updated papers in its search results and keep auto-generating citations of your deadname for years.
@celesteh @arborelia If you're at a university your library would probably be delighted to make some suggestions!
At my own uni library for general/initial searches I'd go for our multisearch/discovery layer, then when I've got a good idea of keywords I'd head into more subject-specific databases and use the advanced search functionality.
(Whether/how quickly they honour name change requests probably depends on how the publishers pass info on, but at least they don't do page rank nonsense.)
@arborelia that is extremely bad and I will stop telling students to use it. I don't know how else to search for papers in the arts and humanities.