The general criteria for authorship require including the people who worked on the experiments and data for the paper, which can be more important contribution

The general criteria for authorship require including the people who worked on the experiments and data for the paper, which can be more important contribution than most of the text in that paper. In other experimental fields, there are papers with dozens or even hundreds of authors, because it can take many people to get to a measurement of a single number in the paper.