On 5 Sep 2010 at 23:12, I wrote: > The mother of all co-authored papers, I understand, is this 2- > page shorty. I'm told it has around 2900 authors. You may count > them yourself to get an exact figure. > > ------------------ > Adekoy, Emmanuel et al. Correction: Initial sequencing and > analysis of the human genome. International Human Genome > Sequencing Consortium, Nature 412, 565-566 (2 August 2001) | > doi:10.1038/35087627 > ------------------- > > See: > http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v412/n6846/extref/412565 > aa.html or http://tinyurl.com/2b5ootn if you really want to count > them (or just to admire its magnificence).
I'm having second thoughts about the validity of this claim, as it's unclear what the status of the 2900 or so "full authors" listed in footnote 2 are, in relation to footnote 1, which just adds six as "additional author credits" to the original 2001 article at http://tinyurl.com/yb9rxkq I (very roughly) estimate that article, with true first author the eminent Eric Lander (as opposed to Adekoy I cited above, whose placement is alphabetic), to have only about 300 authors. But it turns out we've been down this road before, notably in a post from me in November- December of 2008, challenging the list to find the paper with the longest list of authors. Sue Frantz successfully found the one I had in mind. It's this one: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-ex/pdf/0509/0509008v3.pdf Precision Electroweak Measurements on the Z Resonance. Accepted for publication in Physics Reports, September 7, 2005. It is claimed to have 2512 authors (see pages 227 to 245 of the pdf). I'm gonna assume it really made it into print. Sticklers may check this point. Stephen -------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=4638 or send a blank email to leave-4638-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
