{"id":197015,"date":"2015-07-15T13:27:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T16:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=197015"},"modified":"2015-09-11T13:31:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T16:31:36","slug":"army-of-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/army-of-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Army of authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_197016\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-197016\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Estrategias_Maximilien-Brice-CERN.jpg\" alt=\"LHC: teams operating two detectors have published a paper with a record number of authors\" width=\"290\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Estrategias_Maximilien-Brice-CERN.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Estrategias_Maximilien-Brice-CERN-120x78.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Estrategias_Maximilien-Brice-CERN-250x163.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">MAXIMILIEN BRICE \/CERN<\/span>LHC: teams operating two detectors have published a paper with a record number of authors<span class=\"media-credits\">MAXIMILIEN BRICE \/CERN<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>An article signed by 5,154 researchers has broken the record for number of authors listed on a single scientific paper. Of the 33 pages of the article, published in the May 2015 issue of the journal <em>Physical Review Letters<\/em>, nine are devoted to the research findings and the bibliography. The other 24 pages list the names of the authors and their institutions. This is the first paper published by the teams that operate the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) and the ATLAS, two particle detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world\u2019s largest particle accelerator. The researchers obtained a more precise estimate of the mass of the Higgs boson, which was discovered in 2012, indicating that it is approximately 0.25% smaller than previously estimated. The previous record was set by an article published by 3,000 researchers at the LHC in 2008. While the concept of \u201chyperauthorship\u201d is well-accepted among physicists, it causes unease in other fields of science. The May 2015 publication of an article on the genome of the <em>Drosophila<\/em> fruit fly that lists 1,014 authors generated a discussion on the meaning of authorship of a paper of this kind. \u201cCould everyone have made enough of a contribution to be credited as an author?\u201d wondered neuroethologist Zen Faulkes of the University of Texas. Geneticist Sarah Elgin, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and senior author of the paper\u2014which was published in the journal <em>G3<\/em>\u2014defended multiauthorship. \u201cPutting together the efforts of many people allows you to do good projects,\u201d she told the journal <em>Nature<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Article broke the record for number of authors on a single scientific paper","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[235,215],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-197015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies","tag-physics","tag-scientometrics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197015"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=197015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}