I ask, what do you have to do to become 9th author (out of 13) on a Nature paper?
Stand in the lab and scratch yourself?
Check out the number of authors on particle physics papers…
So what do you think all these people do?
Depends on the paper. This is amusing – Aleph et al. 2006. Precision electroweak measurements on the Z resonance. Physics Reports, 427[5-6]: 257-454. This paper has 2512 authors. Now you’re really wondering…
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Check out the number of authors on particle physics papers…
So what do you think all these people do?
Depends on the paper. This is amusing – Aleph et al. 2006. Precision electroweak measurements on the Z resonance. Physics Reports, 427[5-6]: 257-454. This paper has 2512 authors. Now you’re really wondering…