The rising trend in authorship
Robert Aboukhalil
Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724
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Author ProfileAbstract
Big science is on the rise. Recent endeavors, such as the Large Hadron
Collider and the Human Genome Project, illustrate the rise in
large-scale scientific inquiries. To assess whether big science is part
of a general trend towards increased authorship, we queried the publicly
available database Pubmed and measured the trend in number of authors
per paper over the last century. Here we show that authorship has
increased five-fold since 1913 and predict that by 2034, publications
will boast an average of 8 authors.