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Nature 450, 1165 (20 December 2007) | doi:10.1038/4501165a; Published online 19 December 2007
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The demise of the lone author
Mott Greene1
- Mott Greene is John Magee professor of science and values at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, USA.
Abstract
As the average number of contributors to individual papers continues to rise, science's credit system is under pressure to evolve.
Any issue of Nature today has nearly the same number of Articles and Letters as one from 1950, but about four times as many authors. The lone author has all but disappeared.
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