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  1. Physics paper sets record with more than 5,000 authors

    A physics paper with 5,154 authors has — as far as anyone knows — broken the record for the largest number of contributors to a single research article. Only the first nine pages in the 33 ...

  2. Physics paper sets record with more than 5000 authors

    With 5154 authors, a physics paper has seemingly broken the record for the largest number of contributors to a research article, Nature News reports. The study, published in Physical Review Letters, provides the most precise estimate of the mass of the Higgs boson yet known and is the result of collaboration between two teams that operate detectors at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Europe ...

  3. Most authors on a single peer-reviewed academic paper

    The most authors on a single peer-reviewed academic paper is 15,025 and was achieved by the COVIDSurg and GlobalSurg Collaboratives at the University of Birmingham and the University of Edinburgh in the UK, as verified on 24 March 2021. Authors from across 116 countries collaborated on this academic paper.

  4. Divide and concur: A physics paper with 5,154 authors

    Physics paper sets record with more than 5,000 authors Detector teams at the Large Hadron Collider collaborated for a more precise estimate of the size of the Higgs boson. A physics paper with 5,154 authors has — as far as anyone knows — broken the record for the largest number of contributors to a single research article.

  5. Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days

    The median number of full papers per hyperprolific author in 2000-2016 was 677; across all hyperprolific authors, last author positions accounted for 42.5%, first author positions for 7.1%, and ...

  6. Google Scholar reveals its most influential papers for 2020

    The lead author, Shaoqing Ren, is also a co-author on Google's most-cited paper for 2020, "Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition", which has amassed almost 50,000 citations. Read more ...

  7. Physics paper sets record with more than 5,000 authors

    The trends in the number of authors and unique authors for a given paper have also been presented for more than 1700 authors of more than 1000 research papers for this period spanning 46 years.

  8. Long lists are eroding the value of being a scientific author

    Over the last decade, two published experiments from the LHC also had the highest number of authors in papers indexed by Thomson Reuters. In 2010, an ATLAS paper counted 3,221 authors, and a 2008 ...

  9. How Many Number of Authors Can Be There in a Research Paper?

    The Physics Paper with Highest Number of 5,000+ Authors. A groundbreaking physics paper published in Physical Review Letters has set a record with an astonishing 5,154 authors, making it one of the largest collaborative efforts in scientific literature.The 33-page article, primarily focused on the research involving the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, details the collaboration between two ...

  10. Does the Number of Authors Matter? Data from 101,580 Research Papers

    6 authors. 75th Percentile. 9 authors. Maximum. 2,902 authors. In our sample of 101,580 research papers, the median research paper was written by 6 authors, and the majority had between 4 and 9 authors. Only 5% were written by single authors (n=5,280). A physics paper had 2,902 authors, which was the largest number of contributors to a single ...

  11. How many maximum number of authors are enough in a research paper

    The largest number of authors on a publication in PubMed is 5,399, and these large numbers are acceptable for many journals.Very few research articles have only one or two authors, and the average ...

  12. Some scientists publish more than 70 papers a year. Here's how ...

    Like Stephen Kings of academia, some researchers are unusually prolific publishers, appearing as an author on as many as 72 scientific papers a year—or about every 5 days. John Ioannidis, a statistician at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, wondered whether some of them were gaming the system. So he and colleagues dove into the ...

  13. How many authors are (too) many? A retrospective ...

    The number of multicenter studies increased from ~ 5000 to ~ 20,000 and had the highest average number of authors per paper of all analyzed publication types with 7.37 in 2000 and 12.92 in 2020 (+ 75%, p < 0.0001; Fig. 5E and Table 2) with an average increase of 2.86% per year (Table 2). following a polynomial function (R 2 = 0.99; Online ...

  14. Google Scholar Metrics Help

    Google Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Scholar Metrics summarize recent citations to many publications, to help authors as they consider where to publish their new research. To get started, you can browse the top 100 publications in ...

  15. Which is more valued, first authorship articles or the number of

    Other indicators include being one of a smaller list of authors (e.g., being second author on a two author-paper compared to a ten author paper). Quality : The quality of your papers; this can refer to the actual quality of the paper as judged by experts who read it; equally, some will judge quality based on the reputation of the journal or ...

  16. List of countries by number of scientific and technical journal

    The countries with the highest share of articles published in scientific journals according to the Nature Index 2024, which is valid for the calendar year 2023. The "count" is the total number of articles to which nationals of the country have contributed. The "share" is lower than the count because for each article it is based on the number of ...

  17. These 10 institutions published the most papers in Nature and Science

    2. Stanford University. Fractional Count: 39.85 (-24.3%); Article Count: 100. Stanford University appears in the upper echelons of many of the Nature Index Annual Tables rankings, including ...

  18. What should the maximum number of authors in a paper?

    Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg. Many renowned journals limit the number of authors to 10. If there are more authors than 10, they often ask for a detailed justification. Of course, when ...

  19. Sustainability

    The USA is the country with the highest number of publications (133), the highest h-index (31), and also with the highest amount of citations (2717), but the highest number of citations per paper belongs to Lithuania with 40.50, ranked number 9 in the list.

  20. Ligand-enforced geometric constraints and associated reactivity in p

    The geometry at an element centre can generally be predicted based on the number of electron pairs around it using valence shell electron pair repulsion (VSEPR) theory. Strategies to distort p-block compounds away from these predicted geometries have gained considerable interest due to the unique structural Applications of Main Group Chemistry in Synthesis, Catalysis, and Biomedical and ...

  21. IET Image Processing: Author Guidelines

    Original Research Paper. Report of original research findings and data. ... Manuscripts relying on clinical trials should quote the trial registration number at the end of the abstract. Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human ...

  22. Paper authorship goes hyper

    The average number of authors on a physical sciences paper more than quadrupled from 9 in 2012 to 39 between 2016. By contrast, a typical chemistry and earth and environmental sciences paper in ...

  23. The top ten authors with the highest number of articles and their

    The most influential author whose x-index reaches 15.11 was Simon Dagenais from the US. (3) The most cited MeSH term with an x-index of 23.05 was surgery based on the top 100 most cited articles ...

  24. Exploring the role of nicotine and smoking in sleep behaviours: A

    Research has shown bidirectional relationships between smoking and adverse sleep behaviours, including late chronotype and insomnia, but the underlying mechanisms are not understood. One potential driver is nicotine, but its role in sleep is unclear. For this study, we estimated the direct effect of nicotine on six sleep behaviours measured in UK Biobank (chronotype, ease of getting up in the ...

  25. The Use of Wastewater Surveillance to Estimate SARS-CoV-2 Fecal Viral

    Background: Wastewater-based surveillance is an important tool for monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it remains challenging to translate wastewater SARS-CoV-2 viral load to infection number, due to unclear shedding patterns in wastewater and potential differences between variants. Objectives: We utilized comprehensive wastewater surveillance data and estimates of infection prevalence ...

  26. An axis of genetic heterogeneity in autism is indexed by age at

    Competing Interest Statement. The authors have declared no competing interest. Funding Statement. This research was supported by funding from the Simons Foundation for Autism Research Initiative, the Wellcome Trust (214322\Z\18\Z),Horizon-Europe R2D2-MH (grant agreement number 101057385), and UKRI (10063472).

  27. The Existence of Meissner Solutions to the Full Ginzburg ...

    In this paper we study a semilinear system involving the curl operator, which is a limiting form of the Ginzburg-Landau model for superconductors in \({{\mathbb{R}}^3}\) for a large value of the ...

  28. These AI firms publish the world's most highly cited work

    The most cited paper in all AI research, according to PARAT data, is a 2017 paper 1 entitled 'Attention is all you need'. The paper from US-based researchers at Alphabet subsidiary Google and ...

  29. Clinical Advancement Forecasting

    Choosing which drug targets to pursue for a given disease is one of the most impactful decisions made in the global development of new medicines. This study examines the extent to which the outcomes of clinical trials can be predicted based on a small set of longitudinal (temporally labeled) evidence and properties of drug targets and diseases. We demonstrate a novel statistical learning ...

  30. NIDA IRP Technology Development Initiative Featured Paper

    The National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program is a research facility in Baltimore, MD. ... Authors. Juan C Mesa, Michael D MacLean, Maria Ms, Alan Nguyen, Rujuta Patel, Timothy Diemer, Jongcheon Lim, Chi Hwan Lee, Hyowon Lee. Paper presented by Dr. Agnieszka Sulima and selected by the NIDA TDI Paper of the Month Committee ...