As a funny aside, the author of one of the early works on wavelets [1] employed the first person plural pronoun with a footnote on the first page defining it as

As a funny aside, the author of one of the early works on wavelets [1] employed the first person plural pronoun with a footnote on the first page defining it as the “Royal we” [1] https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.1994-2280 https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.1994-2280