The 1993 Ig Nobel Prize in literature honored the approximately 976 co-authors of a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine for publishing a paper that has 100 times more authors than pages.
In that spirit, here are two recent studies, each with hundreds of authors. We dare you, sort of, to count the authors. Thanks to Chitteranjan Andrade for alerting us to the one, which is in the Archives of Neurology, and Mike Palij for the other, which is in the Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology.
“Grand Rounds,” Y. Escabi and many, many others, Archives of Neurology, 2010 Sep;25(6):475-583.
“Meta-analysis Confirms CR1, CLU, and PICALM as Alzheimer Disease Risk Loci and Reveals Interactions With APOE Genotypes,” Gyungah Jun and many, many others, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, Published online August 9, 2010.