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Citation 40 is the longest list of authors I have ever seen. That is one way to help all your friends get tenure.
by waynecochran 2y ago
Citation 40 is the longest list of authors I have ever seen. That is one way to help all your friends get tenure.
- hyperbovine 2y agoTenure committees have to write a report detailing every single one of your papers and what your contribution was.
- waynecochran 2y agoThere are always "bean counters" added somewhere in the process. There are many places where the person lists their number of publications and that is all most people will ever see.
- mr_mitm 2y agoI didn't count it, but I think papers from high energy particle physics have it beat. Some have over 5k authors.
- dxbydt 2y agohttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.04615 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.04615
- YeGoblynQueenne 2y agoI guess this is the reason: >> BIG-bench currently consists of 204 tasks, contributed by 450 authors across 132 institutions. Regardless, I'm not citing a paper with a whole page of author names unless I'm allowed to shorten it significantly in the bibliography section (e.g. "Srivastava and 450 others").
- eyeundersand 2y agoWow! You weren't kidding. People in my field often joke that papers in biology, health etc. tend to list every person they met on the day of submission as authors. But this one has 450 authors from 132 institutions. Surely this points to some sort of breakdown in the attribution system.