And if you assume dead authors can't write anything, it probably put a bit more weight for writing on the surviving authors.
I assumed the contest was not valid in Quebec because the questions and answers were not also written in French. Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________ From: Rick Froman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:20 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] One for the Guinness book By my calculations, this is approximately an average of 37 words per author (not counting the reference list and the list of author's names). Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 8:08 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] One for the Guinness book On 3 Dec 2008 at 14:25, Frantz, Sue wrote: > I'm going with 2512 authors. > > Aleph et al. 2006. Precision electroweak measurements on the Z > resonance. Physics Reports, 427[5-6]: 257-454. > > There are 14 pages of authors... listed in Appendix A. With 2,512 > authors, chances are good that you know one! > > You can read the paper here: http://tinyurl.com/6n64b5 Wow! You're good, Sue. I never thought anyone would come up with that one. My only complaint is that your tinyurl takes me to the ScienceDirect login page, and reading it there isn't possible without coughing up $$$. Try this instead: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-ex/pdf/0509/0509008v3.pdf and then skip to p. 227 and keep going to p. 245. Count 'em and be amazed. Interested parties might also try: King, C. (2007). Multiauthor papers redux: a new peek at new peaks. _Science Watch_, Nov-Dec. Available on-line (no $$$ needed) at: http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/m/pdfs/klnl/8428096/swmultiauthor.pdf and the letter-to-the-editor which inspired this post: Sekercioglu, C. (2008). Quantifying coauthor contributions. _Science_ 322, p. 371. So we have a winner. As prize I was going to suggest a week in Toronto, with second place getting two weeks in Toronto, but this was not a popular choice. So I suggest instead Michael Sylvester on your home answering machine. Please contact him for further information. Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Subscribe to discussion list (TIPS) for the teaching of psychology at http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
