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The pdf is 15 pages, but really only 6 pages of it is actual content. Is it common for there to be 3 full pages of authors on a paper like this? Seems a little
by chairmanwow 8y ago
The pdf is 15 pages, but really only 6 pages of it is actual content. Is it common for there to be 3 full pages of authors on a paper like this? Seems a little bizarre to my untrained eye.
- chikei 8y agoYes, it's common for large scale collaboration experiment like this. Papers from ATLAS/CMS have about 15 pages for authors (for example https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.00425.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.00425.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.02610.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.02610.pdf).
- verytrivial 8y agoAs other comment say, yes, esp. for these honking-great detector devices like LIGO, LHC etc. Also from the article: * Deceased, February 2018. † Deceased, November 2017. So sadly A. Giazotto and V. Brisson did not live to see this published.
- jpmattia 8y ago> Is it common for there to be 3 full pages of authors on a paper like this? Some subfields in physics have a specific culture around authorship. For example: In experimental particle physics, the authorship list can be similarly long. Despite the long list, there is an implicit assumption of a working particle accelerator, which is run by another large number of people who publish separately in their own journals.