A physics paper with 5,154 authors is the newest reached pinnacle in people’s drive to divide and concur, when there’s credit to be had. Those 5,154 physicists stand a-write on the collective shoulders of the 976 physicians who shared the 1993 Ig Nobel Prize for literature. That 1993 Ig Nobel prize was awarded to Eric Topol [pictured here], R. Califf, F. Van […]
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Wong and Wright, hundreds of times
This is one of the many hundreds of academic papers that have a co-author who is Wong and a co-author who is Wright: “Trefoil peptides,” W.M. Wong, R. Poulsom, and N.A. Wright, Gut, vol. 44, no. 6 (1999): 890-895. (Thank you to investigator Matthew R. Francis for bringing the phenomenon to our attention.) This particular […]
The lead author (of 976 co-authors) is not an author?
We received a strange direct message (on Twitter) from Dr. Eric Topol [pictured here], who—to all appearances—was lead author on a study that lists (approximately) 976 co-authors. Dr. Topol sent the message specifically to say that he is not a co-author of that study. The study is: “An international randomized trial comparing four thrombolytic strategies for […]
Another cornucopia of co-authors
It seems so innocent. The list begins “Khachatryan V, Sirunyan AM, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Bergauer T, Dragicevic M, Erö J,…” These are the first few co-authors of a paper called “Search for Stopped Gluinos in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=7 TeV.”And then the list goes on, and on, and on… with about 2100 co-authors total. And […]