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What type of information can I see and or modify on My Account page?
Last updated on August 06, 2026
User ID and Password
User ID: SSRN uses your email address as your initial User ID.
Password: Must be between 5 and 200 characters. Passwords are not case sensitive.
SSRN Contact Email: Designate the email address where you want to receive your SSRN email alerts.
Profile Information Name: The name used to set up your account. This is your default display public name. Public Display Name: Change your name here if you wish your display name to be different than your account name. For example, you can enter your display name as Dr. John Smith but have your account name just John Smith.
ORCID: An independent non-profit effort to provide an open registry of unique researcher identifiers and link research activities and organizations to those identifiers.
Affiliations: This organizational affiliation is displayed on your Author page and Abstract pages. To display a URL of your website on your Author page, edit your affiliation.
Author Page Photo: Authors with at least one paper displaying on their SSRN Author Page may post a headshot photo of themselves on their Author Page. When you upload a headshot of yourself it will immediately display on your Author page.
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