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Mega-authorship implications: How many scientists can fit into one cell?

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The past 20 years has seen a significant increase in articles with 500 or more authors. This increase has presented problems in terms of determining true authorship versus other types of contribution, issues with database metadata and data output, and publication length. Using items with 500+ authors deemed as mega-author titles, a total of 5,533 mega-author items were identified using InCites. Metadata about the items was then gathered from Web of Science and Scopus. Close examination of these items found that the vast majority of these covered physics topics, with medicine a far distant second place and only minor representation from other science fields. This mega-authorship saw significant events that appear to correspond to similar events in the Large Hadron Collider’s timeline, indicating that the projects for the collider are driving this heavy output. Some solutions are offered for the problems resulting from this phenomenon, partially driven by recommendations from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
Herrera, Claudio Díaz (57200793587); Díaz, Emilio Moyano (58418447500)
Bibliometrics and semantics in XXI century Chilean social science journals; [Bibliometría y semântica em revistas de ciências sociales chilenas del siglo XXI]
2023
10.5209/rgid.89226
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85163831993&doi=10.5209%2frgid.89226&partnerID=40&md5=bb91170f872406e2cf2e48f5dbaf538b
Universidad Católica del Maule, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Económicas, Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Escuela de Trabajo Social, Chile; Universidad de Talca, Facultad de Psicología, Campus Talca, Chile
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