Review article

https://doi.org/10.11613/BM.2016.019

What’s in a name, anyway?

Farrokh Habibzadeh orcid.org/0000-0001-5360-2900 ; Past President of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)Editor and Founder of the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (IJOEM)

Abstract

We have used names, particularly surnames, to identify people who are related. However, this has been done in various ways in different societies. While in many western countries we use a given (first) name and a surname (family name) to identify a person, in Arab countries, there are in fact no surnames; people use their given name followed by their father’s given name. For example, while my name in a western system is “Farrokh Habibzadeh” (Farrokh is my first name and Habibzadeh is my family name), my name in Arabic documents, say in a visa, would be “Farrokh Naser” (Naser is my father’s first name). Chinese use another style. They usually use their surname followed by their given name. Then, my name in a Chinese system would be “Habibzadeh Farrokh.

Keywords

authorship; journal software system; editorial policy

Hrčak ID:

161681

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/161681

Publication date:

15.6.2016.

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