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person's arXiv account with the papers that they have written. We say that a person is "registered as an author" if there is an authority record that links that person's account to a paper. Just as arXiv submitters are responsible for papers they submit, arXiv users are responsible for maintaining authority records for their papers.</p> <p>There are several reasons why a person might not be registered as an author:</p> <ol> <li> <p><strong>The user might not have a user account on arXiv:</strong> Some arXiv authors do not have an account for arXiv because other people have submitted all of the papers that they have authored. For instance, some professors have graduate students submit their own papers -- such a professor will not be automatically "registered as an author" for all of their papers.</p> <p>Prior to 6 July 2003, it was possible to submit papers to arXiv via e-mail <em>without</em> creating a user account. Thus, some people who are quite prolific do not have arXiv accounts and are not "registered as an author". If such a person <a href="https://arxiv.org/user/register">creates a new account</a> with the <em>same e-mail address</em> used for past submissions, we will automatically link their papers with their new account.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>The user might not have claimed ownership of the papers:</strong> People who submit papers to arXiv are automatically registered as paper owners who have the right to make changes to papers they submit. Currently, most people who are "registered as author(s)" are submitters, but co-authors can claim ownership of papers by using the <a href="passwords.html">paper password</a> given to the submitters.</p> <p>Submitters should share the paper password with their co-authors so that we can correctly register all of the authors of a paper. You can <a href="http://arxiv.org/auth/need-paper-password">claim ownership of a paper</a> immediately if you have the paper password. If you cannot find the paper password, you can <a href="http://arxiv.org/auth/request-ownership">request that our administrators grant you ownership of a paper</a>. Because it may take several days for administrators to get around to your request, this procedure should only be a last resort if you absolutely cannot get the paper password.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>The user might not have claimed authorship of the papers;</strong> Although we encourage authors to submit their own papers, some papers are submitted by persons other than the authors. For instance, at some research institutes, an administrative assistant makes all of the submissions for a single department. When you submit a paper we will ask if you are an author, and we will also ask you when you claim ownership of a paper. A user will not be "registered as an author" if they enter incorrect information at this point.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>We may have failed to have matched the user name:</strong> Prior to 17 Jan. 2003, we did not ask people if they were authors of the papers that they owned or submitted. During the upgrade, we had an automated process compare the names of paper owners and submitters to the authors of a paper. We made the user an author of a paper if the names matched, otherwise the user was registered as a non-author. 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