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> Reporting was contributed by Manuela Andreoni, Jeremy Ashkenas, Laurent Bastien Corbeil, Nic Dias, Elise Hansen, Michael Keller, Manuel Villa and Felipe Villa
by vanderZwan 9y ago
> Reporting was contributed by Manuela Andreoni, Jeremy Ashkenas, Laurent Bastien Corbeil, Nic Dias, Elise Hansen, Michael Keller, Manuel Villa and Felipe Villamor. Research was contributed by Susan C. Beachy, Doris Burke and Alain Delaquérière.
I already knew he worked for NYT, but still: I wonder how much it matters that the creator of Coffeescript was second author on this article.
- untog 9y agoThose names are alphabetical, so I think he just wins by virtue of his natural name advantage :)
- vanderZwan 9y agoHah, I've worked for academia for too long :)
- infinite8s 9y agoSome branches of academia (high energy physics) list authors alphabetically.
- vanderZwan 9y agoI don't think you can really compare papers with thousands of authors to papers with a handful.