Sunday, 3 April 2016

publications - Is it fine to use a startup as an affiliation?


My situation: I have finished university more than 10 years ago. I work for company X. I also own a small startup company called Y (no employees). I am in the process of publishing a paper and I was asked to provide an affiliation. Not providing one is not an option, in the sense it's a mandatory field on the form. I asked X and X said no, as I worked on the paper in my spare time.



Does it make sense to use Y as my affiliation (which is 100% true though not necessarily relevant)? The other option would be to try with something like "Independent researcher" and hope the journal is fine with it (idea came from here; example).


Relevant questions:



  1. Does one need to be affiliated with a university to publish papers?

  2. Using home address when submitting an article with no affiliation?




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