Comments on: Contemplating the nature of authorship http://walt.lishost.org/2006/10/contemplating-the-nature-of-authorship/ The library voice of the radical middle. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:23:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2006/10/contemplating-the-nature-of-authorship/comment-page-1/#comment-22182 walt Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:43:24 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=402#comment-22182 I just approved the above comment which had been trapped for moderation–and I now think I know why. Probably a combination of the link and the exclamation point in the username…

In any case, 972 coauthors for a nine-page paper certainly trumps the modest example cited in the post. Presumably, each author contributed one short sentence…

[Just realized that it\'s easy to count the number of authors using a Word replace command: for the example in the post, I get 191 or 192 authors for a six-page paper. Pikers; they need to recruit some additional coauthors.]

]]> By: WoW!ter http://walt.lishost.org/2006/10/contemplating-the-nature-of-authorship/comment-page-1/#comment-22181 WoW!ter Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:19:45 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=402#comment-22181 Don’t forget the 1993 Ig Nobel prize for Literature. They listed a few more. http://www.improbable.com/ig/1993/1993-lit.html

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