Can I use my first name instead of last name? I am a Korean with my first (given) name comes last and my last (family) name comes first, just like many other east asians. So, I write my name as &quot;Aaa Bbb Ccc&quot;, where &quot;Aaa&quot; is my family name and &quot;Bbb Ccc&quot; is my given name. There are literally several millions of other Koreans who also have &quot;Aaa&quot; as their family name, and many of them spell it in English in the same way. Imagine citing a paper written by a Korean with family name Aaa. How can people possibly distinguish hundreds of Korean researchers with the same name working in same field? For this reason, I want to use my given name (which is still quite common, but far less common than my family name) instead of my family name. For example, I want to be cited as [Bbb Ccc, 2020] instead of [Aaa, 2020]. Is this possible to do? I don't mind to be called as &quot;Dr Bbb Ccc&quot;, and actually I prefer that way; imagine being called as &quot;Dr Aaa&quot;, where there are 8 other &quot;Dr Aaa&quot;s in the same department! Of course I have to deal with other problems, like being called as &quot;Bbb&quot; or &quot;Ccc&quot; which is just like &quot;von&quot; and &quot;Neumann&quot; instead of &quot;von Neumann&quot;; but I think that is less annoying than being one of those &quot;Aaa&quot;s. Is it possible?
Use a digital identifier such as ORCID - https://orcid.org
It would be impossible to address all the different naming conventions so you can distinguish yourself in every subgroup. But with ORCID, it would be easier to track your publications and work compared to sifting through your duplicates on google or a database.