Articles with dozens or hundreds of authors

[Charles Van]

Hi all,

I am looking for examples of peer reviewed, published articles in scholarly journals which have many, many authors and/or signatories. I am involved in a different field, but have read that research articles and response letters in the field of physics may, at times, have dozens or hundreds of authors.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Ben Niehoff]

Look at experimental particle physics, especially.

 

[Charles Van]

Thanks. I will try and find some of those articles.

I have read that there is an article in physics with 632 authors. Does anyone know the reference for this?

 

[Vanadium 50]

There are papers with thousands of authors. Do what Ben said.

 

[Charles Van]

Thanks. I don't know this field at all, but have been going through Physical Review Letters and can't find any of these articles with hundreds or thousands of authors. What I am looking for is how a peer reviewed journal publishes an article with so many authors. Do they list everyone's name? Credentials? Do they list only a lead author's or contact author's name and credentials?

 

[jtbell]

Try Physical Review D. Here's an example from about ten years ago:

http://prd.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v66/i11/e112001

Click on "Show all authors/affiliations."

 

[Charles Van]

Thanks jtbell!

I also found this really interesting article - http://pareonline.net/pdf/v14n15.pdf

 

[jtbell]

Note that in experimental particle physics, it's the custom to list all the participants in an experiment in alphabetical order, regardless of their status. The "lead author", Abazov, was probably a graduate student. I was in that position myself when I was a graduate student, in a much smaller collaboration, about forty people.