Thought for the day
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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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…