This was one of the ethical dilemmas we had to go through at university some 20 years ago: "Your professor/supervisor tells you to add them to the list of autho

This was one of the ethical dilemmas we had to go through at university some 20 years ago: "Your professor/supervisor tells you to add them to the list of authors on your paper, do you do it?". There's a whole subset of "issues" here, one where you're more likely to be published with the supervisors name on the paper, another where you're travelling to present your paper, but you're not likely to be granted the budget and adding a professors name will almost ensure an all expenses paid trip. Low hundreds papers doesn't seem impossible, nor does hundreds of collaborators, but it would heavily depend on your work. We see the same in software. Some people seems unrealistically productive, spawning one successful project after another. I would be interested in knowing for how long they can keep up the pace though. There's also the question of the quality of their work.