Almost 9000 authors on this paper

[BWV]

8778 authors - curious how they coordinated that

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03583443

 

[berkeman]

Flash mob at a Physics convention?

 

[jack action]

Fun fact: There are about 10 000 words in the paper, so around 1 word per author. That is not counting the list of authors at the end: It is just as long as the paper itself so then we have 2 words per author!

 

[Office_Shredder]

I assume the problem is it uses the lhc, which means anyone who contributed to running it becomes an author.

 

[Vanadium 50]

A. Where did you get that number? It should eb 3000-4000.
B. Which author or authors do you think did not contribute?

 

[wrobel]

mathematicians have something to learn

 

[Office_Shredder]

Which author or authors do you think did not contribute?

Francesco Costanza. If he's anything like his brother George he's just coasting on the work of others.

 

[pinball1970]

Francesco Costanza. If he's anything like his brother George he's just coasting on the work of others.

Brian Cox is missing

 

[BWV]

Which surname - Aad or Zwalinski - would be better for a physics career?

 

[Rive]

anyone who contributed to running it becomes an author.

Maybe time to have a list of contributors and a list of authors
Thousands of authors... Nice piece of phone directory, I guess

Ps.: well, that's actually not exactly a joke... Sometimes what you need is just a list of names possibly working in a specific field of study. But thousands of names - ugh

 

[BWV]

Unfortunately the paper is not peer-reviewed - they were all listed as co-authors except that one guy nobody likes who got left out and he is too pissed to read the paper