This paper qualifies in the competition, if there is one, for Research Paper with the Shortest Title. The paper is: “Q“, by Leon Knopoff [pictured here], Reviews of Geophysics, vol. 2, no. 4, 1964, pp. 625-660. The author, at the Department of Physics and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, begins: […]