Request Name Removal

If you would rather not have your name appear in this index, you can ask to have it removed. Your scholarship stays in the database and keeps counting in the site's metrics — citations, co-authorship, the network maps. What changes is that your name and identifying traces are replaced with a neutral tag, “Name Redacted by Author Request,” everywhere they appear.

The process has two steps. First you verify the email address, which confirms the request is really coming from you. Then I review it by hand before anything changes. This is a courtesy I extend to authors who ask; it is not an automated takedown.

A few honest limits, up front: removal covers your own bylines and author profile. It cannot guarantee your name is scrubbed from inside the bibliographies of other people's articles, where it appears as a citation — those are third-party records I only partly control. And a name can linger in encrypted backups for the length of the backup-retention window before it ages out. The About page says more about both.

Questions, or want to remove a name you can't verify by email? Write to justalewis1@gmail.com.