March 29, 2021 Elsevier was prodded to launch a trans-inclusive policy for author name changes. This allows authors to retrospectively return to previously peer-reviewed articles of record and update them with their current names.

Elsevier pledges its commitment to making name changes: accessible, without placing unnecessary burdens on authors; comprehensive in their implementation across platforms; and invisible, to help protect authors from harassment, in accordance with the Committee on Publication Ethics Working Group’s.

Upon request, Elsevier applies name updates directly to all versions of the published article on primary platforms such as ScienceDirect. We also propagate these changes to versions held across secondary platforms including Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, and archives such as Portico. This policy represents a crucial step towards ensuring researchers are credited properly for their full body of published work, which is essential to their professional development. We are assessing what further actions are needed to make the changes comprehensive, for example correcting citations in previously published Elsevier content which is more technically complex.

We are pleased to extend a similar policy to authors who have changed their name for other personal reasons (e.g., marriage, divorce, or religious conversion).

Source: https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/corporate/elsevier-launches-a-trans-inclusive-name-change-policy