Multiple authorship of Science articles

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Jun 27 08:31:16 PDT 2002


There was some comment on this as part of the plagiarism thread. Here's an example from the current _Nature_.

Query: Would it make sense if more articles/books in social sciences & humanities had such multiple authors listed, or is the habit in the sciences screwed up?

Carrol

Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer HELEN DAVIES, GRAHAM R. BIGNELL, CHARLES COX, PHILIP STEPHENS, SARAH EDKINS, SHEILA CLEGG, JON TEAGUE, HAYLEY WOFFENDIN, MATHEW J. GARNETT, WILLIAM BOTTOMLEY, NEIL DAVIS, ED DICKS, REBECCA EWING, YVONNE FLOYD, KRISTIAN GRAY, SARAH HALL, RACHEL HAWES, JAIME HUGHES, VIVIAN KOSMIDOU, ANDREW MENZIES, CATHERINE MOULD, ADRIAN PARKER, CLAIRE STEVENS, STEPHEN WATT, STEVEN HOOPER, REBECCA WILSON, HIRAN JAYATILAKE, BARRY A. GUSTERSON, COLIN COOPER, JANET SHIPLEY, DARREN HARGRAVE, KATHERINE PRITCHARD-JONES, NORMAN MAITLAND, GEORGIA CHENEVIX-TRENCH, GREGORY J. RIGGINS, DARELL D. BIGNER, GIUSEPPE PALMIERI, ANTONIO COSSU, ADRIENNE FLANAGAN, ANDREW NICHOLSON, JUDY W. C. HO, SUET Y. LEUNG, SIU T. YUEN, BARBARA L. WEBER, HILLIARD F. SEIGLER, TIMOTHY L. DARROW, HUGH PATERSON, RICHARD MARAIS, CHRISTOPHER J. MARSHALL, RICHARD WOOSTER, MICHAEL R. STRATTON & P. ANDREW FUTREAL http://www.nature.com/nlink/v417/n6892/abs/nature00766_fs.html



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