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September 16th, 2009 Lonnie Leave a comment Go to comments

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?

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  1. Charlie B.
    September 16th, 2009 at 15:36 | #1

    Check out the number of authors on particle physics papers…

  2. Lonnie
    September 20th, 2009 at 12:50 | #2

    So what do you think all these people do?

  3. Charlie B.
    September 21st, 2009 at 03:56 | #3

    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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