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Navigating the inclusion of a maiden name in new publications

Hi All,

I've seen some threads about the decision to choose maiden name vs. married name here. However, I haven't found one on changing after publishing a few papers. (If one exists, please share!)

I am a doctoral student with 5 papers under my maiden name. I've been married for one year, and I've just been lazy/worried about pushback about choosing my married name. I've always disliked my maiden name and am STOKED to use my married name in academia.

All this to say, I'm trying to determine if I should include my maiden initial with my middle name, remove my middle initial and use my maiden name, withdraw using my maiden name moving forward, etc. This is the option I'm leaning towards:

\[First name\] \[Middle Initial\]\[Maiden Inital\] \[Married Name\]

Advice? Recommendations? Does the inclusion of maiden name really matter in the end?

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Update: thank you so much for the helpful feedback! Based on the consensus, I've decided to drop any mention of my maiden name when publishing, highlight it in my CV, and link past papers using GoogleScholar and OrcID. That should cover any 'identity' issues...
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It doesn't realy matter. If you link all of your papers to yourself in your ncbi bibliography or orcid or whatever you want to use, people will know its your paper. Do what you like (so long as it's reasonable; the options you are considering are).