How Many Authors Does It Really Need To Write A Paper?

This article is published on Elephant in the lab – a blog journal on science policy. It is part of a series of articles analysing the authorship performance in 27 scientific subject areas. Follow the blog: https://www.elephantinthelab.org/ – Twitter: @EITL_blog

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Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Germany

Keywords

Bibliometrics, Factory science, Academic authorship, Co-authorship

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	selected citations These citations are derived from selected sources. This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).	1
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