The 1993 Ig Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to Eric Topol, R. Califf, F. Van de Werf, P. W. Armstrong, and their 972 co-authors, for publishing a medical research paper which has one hundred times as many authors as pages. That study was in The New England Journal of Medicine,] Now, seventeen years later, […]
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How many wronged or wrong co-authors
A quick math adventure: Estimate the number of co-authors in this publication (“Erratum to ‘Atmospheric effects on extensive air showers observed with the surface detector of the Pierre Auger observatory‘”, Astroparticle Physics, vol. 32, no. 2, 2009, pp. 89–99. Thanks to investigator Adrian Smith for bringing it to our attention.) If you want to do […]