Community Guidelines

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Find Your Co-author exists to help researchers form real collaborations. To keep it a safe and trustworthy place to do that, you agree not to:

• Harass, threaten, or discriminate against other users
• Impersonate a professor, student, research institution, or anyone else
• Fabricate or misrepresent ORCID or institution verification
• Take credit for or misappropriate someone else's project, research, or paper
• Share someone else's private information without their consent
• Upload patient data, protected human-subjects data, trade secrets, or other confidential information
• Use the platform for spam, phishing, or scams
• Post deliberately false projects or opportunities
• Use the platform to facilitate unauthorized academic dishonesty
• File reports in bad faith to harass or silence another user
• Use automated tools to scrape or bulk-harvest content from the platform
• Maintain multiple accounts to evade a suspension or ban
• Disclose something a collaborator shared with you in confidence during a private conversation, without their permission
• Solicit payment for services outside the scope of academic collaboration through the platform's messaging

Violating these guidelines can result in content removal, restricted visibility, account suspension, or termination. See Report Abuse to flag something, and our Terms of Service for how we handle violations.