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Author insanity

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 2:38 am
by doctorwho
This will probably appeal more to the academically inclined among us, but i had to share. I ran across this citation on PubMed when doing a search, and it has to be the craziest number of authors I have ever seen on a research paper:
Observation of the Ξ_{b}^{0} Baryon.

Aaltonen T, Alvarez González B, Amerio S, Amidei D, Anastassov A, Annovi A, Antos J, Apollinari G, Appel JA, Apresyan A, Arisawa T, Artikov A, Asaadi J, Ashmanskas W, Auerbach B, Aurisano A, Azfar F, Badgett W, Barbaro-Galtieri A, Barnes VE, Barnett BA, Barria P, Bartos P, Bauce M, Bauer G, Bedeschi F, Beecher D, Behari S, Bellettini G, Bellinger J, Benjamin D, Beretvas A, Bhatti A, Binkley M, Bisello D, Bizjak I, Bland KR, Blumenfeld B, Bocci A, Bodek A, Bortoletto D, Boudreau J, Boveia A, Brigliadori L, Brisuda A, Bromberg C, Brucken E, Bucciantonio M, Budagov J, Budd HS, Budd S, Burkett K, Busetto G, Bussey P, Buzatu A, Calancha C, Camarda S, Campanelli M, Campbell M, Canelli F, Carls B, Carlsmith D, Carosi R, Carrillo S, Carron S, Casal B, Casarsa M, Castro A, Catastini P, Cauz D, Cavaliere V, Cavalli-Sforza M, Cerri A, Cerrito L, Chen YC, Chertok M, Chiarelli G, Chlachidze G, Chlebana F, Cho K, Chokheli D, Chou JP, Chung WH, Chung YS, Ciobanu CI, Ciocci MA, Clark A, Clarke C, Compostella G, Convery ME, Conway J, Corbo M, Cordelli M, Cox CA, Cox DJ, Crescioli F, Cuenca Almenar C, Cuevas J, Culbertson R, Dagenhart D, d'Ascenzo N, Datta M, de Barbaro P, De Cecco S, De Lorenzo G, Dell'orso M, Deluca C, Demortier L, Deng J, Deninno M, Devoto F, d'Errico M, Di Canto A, Di Ruzza B, Dittmann JR, D'Onofrio M, Donati S, Dong P, Dorigo M, Dorigo T, Ebina K, Elagin A, Eppig A, Erbacher R, Errede D, Errede S, Ershaidat N, Eusebi R, Fang HC, Farrington S, Feindt M, Fernandez JP, Ferrazza C, Field R, Flanagan G, Forrest R, Frank MJ, Franklin M, Freeman JC, Funakoshi Y, Furic I, Gallinaro M, Galyardt J, Garcia JE, Garfinkel AF, Garosi P, Gerberich H, Gerchtein E, Giagu S, Giakoumopoulou V, Giannetti P, Gibson K, Ginsburg CM, Giokaris N, Giromini P, Giunta M, Giurgiu G, Glagolev V, Glenzinski D, Gold M, Goldin D, Goldschmidt N, Golossanov A, Gomez G, Gomez-Ceballos G, Goncharov M, González O, Gorelov I, Goshaw AT, Goulianos K, Grinstein S, Grosso-Pilcher C, Group RC, Guimaraes da Costa J, Gunay-Unalan Z, Haber C, Hahn SR, Halkiadakis E, Hamaguchi A, Han JY, Happacher F, Hara K, Hare D, Hare M, Harr RF, Hatakeyama K, Hays C, Heck M, Heinrich J, Herndon M, Hewamanage S, Hidas D, Hocker A, Hopkins W, Horn D, Hou S, Hughes RE, Hurwitz M, Husemann U, Hussain N, Hussein M, Huston J, Introzzi G, Iori M, Ivanov A, James E, Jang D, Jayatilaka B, Jeon EJ, Jha MK, Jindariani S, Johnson W, Jones M, Joo KK, Jun SY, Junk TR, Kamon T, Karchin PE, Kasmi A, Kato Y, Ketchum W, Keung J, Khotilovich V, Kilminster B, Kim DH, Kim HS, Kim HW, Kim JE, Kim MJ, Kim SB, Kim SH, Kim YK, Kimura N, Kirby M, Klimenko S, Kondo K, Kong DJ, Konigsberg J, Kotwal AV, Kreps M, Kroll J, Krop D, Krumnack N, Kruse M, Krutelyov V, Kuhr T, Kurata M, Kwang S, Laasanen AT, Lami S, Lammel S, Lancaster M, Lander RL, Lannon K, Lath A, Latino G, Lecompte T, Lee E, Lee HS, Lee JS, Lee SW, Leo S, Leone S, Lewis JD, Limosani A, Lin CJ, Linacre J, Lindgren M, Lipeles E, Lister A, Litvintsev DO, Liu C, Liu Q, Liu T, Lockwitz S, Loginov A, Lucchesi D, Lueck J, Lujan P, Lukens P, Lungu G, Lys J, Lysak R, Madrak R, Maeshima K, Makhoul K, Malik S, Manca G, Manousakis-Katsikakis A, Margaroli F, Marino C, Martínez M, Martínez-Ballarín R, Mastrandrea P, Mattson ME, Mazzanti P, McFarland KS, McIntyre P, McNulty R, Mehta A, Mehtala P, Menzione A, Mesropian C, Miao T, Mietlicki D, Mitra A, Miyake H, Moed S, Moggi N, Mondragon MN, Moon CS, Moore R, Morello MJ, Morlock J, Movilla Fernandez P, Mukherjee A, Muller T, Murat P, Mussini M, Nachtman J, Nagai Y, Naganoma J, Nakano I, Napier A, Nett J, Neu C, Neubauer MS, Nielsen J, Nodulman L, Norniella O, Nurse E, Oakes L, Oh SH, Oh YD, Oksuzian I, Okusawa T, Orava R, Ortolan L, Pagan Griso S, Pagliarone C, Palencia E, Papadimitriou V, Paramonov AA, Patrick J, Pauletta G, Paulini M, Paus C, Pellett DE, Penzo A, Phillips TJ, Piacentino G, Pianori E, Pilot J, Pitts K, Plager C, Pondrom L, Potamianos K, Poukhov O, Prokoshin F, Pronko A, Ptohos F, Pueschel E, Punzi G, Pursley J, Rahaman A, Ramakrishnan V, Ranjan N, Redondo I, Renton P, Rescigno M, Riddick T, Rimondi F, Ristori L, Robson A, Rodrigo T, Rodriguez T, Rogers E, Rolli S, Roser R, Rossi M, Rubbo F, Ruffini F, Ruiz A, Russ J, Rusu V, Safonov A, Sakumoto WK, Sakurai Y, Santi L, Sartori L, Sato K, Saveliev V, Savoy-Navarro A, Schlabach P, Schmidt A, Schmidt EE, Schmidt MP, Schmitt M, Schwarz T, Scodellaro L, Scribano A, Scuri F, Sedov A, Seidel S, Seiya Y, Semenov A, Sforza F, Sfyrla A, Shalhout SZ, Shears T, Shepard PF, Shimojima M, Shiraishi S, Shochet M, Shreyber I, Simonenko A, Sinervo P, Sissakian A, Sliwa K, Smith JR, Snider FD, Soha A, Somalwar S, Sorin V, Squillacioti P, Stancari M, Stanitzki M, Denis RS, Stelzer B, Stelzer-Chilton O, Stentz D, Strologas J, Strycker GL, Sudo Y, Sukhanov A, Suslov I, Takemasa K, Takeuchi Y, Tang J, Tecchio M, Teng PK, Thom J, Thome J, Thompson GA, Thomson E, Ttito-Guzmán P, Tkaczyk S, Toback D, Tokar S, Tollefson K, Tomura T, Tonelli D, Torre S, Torretta D, Totaro P, Trovato M, Tu Y, Ukegawa F, Uozumi S, Varganov A, Vázquez F, Velev G, Vellidis C, Vidal M, Vila I, Vilar R, Vizán J, Vogel M, Volpi G, Wagner P, Wagner RL, Wakisaka T, Wallny R, Wang SM, Warburton A, Waters D, Weinberger M, Wester WC 3rd, Whitehouse B, Whiteson D, Wicklund AB, Wicklund E, Wilbur S, Wick F, Williams HH, Wilson JS, Wilson P, Winer BL, Wittich P, Wolbers S, Wolfe H, Wright T, Wu X, Wu Z, Yamamoto K, Yamaoka J, Yang T, Yang UK, Yang YC, Yao WM, Yeh GP, Yi K, Yoh J, Yorita K, Yoshida T, Yu GB, Yu I, Yu SS, Yun JC, Zanetti A, Zeng Y, Zucchelli S; CDF Collaboration.

Phys Rev Lett. 2011 Sep 2;107(10):102001. Epub 2011 Aug 31.

PMID:
21981493
[PubMed - in process]
I guess it could have been worse - they might not have listed the names in alphabetical order! :roll: :wink:

Re: Author insanity

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 3:11 am
by paologregorio
:shock: Wowza; that's an encyclopedic citation of authors!

Re: Author insanity

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:29 pm
by cjj
Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "designed by committee."
:roll: :lol:

Re: Author insanity

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:32 pm
by jps
That's probably a paper written by the whole town! :lol:

Re: Author insanity

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 2:02 pm
by rickenbrother
Hey!! They forgot to include MY name! :lol:
I like that, "PubMed". Sounds like a hangout for Tony! Does he play bass there?! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :mrgreen:

Re: Author insanity

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 2:05 pm
by winston
What were they researching..........the genetics of the lunatic who brought them all together? :wink:

Re: Author insanity

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 4:09 pm
by doctorwho
rickenbrother wrote:,,, I like that, "PubMed". Sounds like a hangout for Tony! Does he play bass there?! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :mrgreen:
I always think that PubMed sounds like a place where one would say before every drink, "Here's to your health!" ... :lol:

Re: Author insanity

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:18 pm
by jdogric12
Names of note:

Dong
Wang
Moon
Pitts

In the interest of diversity they have included:
Latino
Joo

and lest we forget:
Kim
Kim
Kim
Kim
Kim
Kim
Kim
Kim

If you're not excited by any of those:
Oh!
Oh!

Re: Author insanity

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:24 pm
by wim
People will probably only remember Aaltonen.

I sure hope they get a Nobel prize for this. :lol:

Re: Author insanity

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:07 pm
by jdogric12
Would they have to take turns with it?

Re: Author insanity

Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 12:49 pm
by bassduke49
Looks like the acknowledgments section of my book!

Re: Author insanity

Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 4:09 pm
by doctorwho
bassduke49 wrote:Looks like the acknowledgments section of my book!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Author insanity

Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 4:56 pm
by s4001
Does the number of authors relate in proportion to the level of plausible deniability?

Re: Author insanity

Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 5:35 pm
by cassius987
I guess this has so many authors because they recognized all the people required to do the experiment (is this LHC-related?), but I have been taught that just performing an experiment doesn't entitle you to authorship in all cases. Of course the "rules" on that vary from lab to lab.

Re: Author insanity

Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 6:41 pm
by FretlessOnly
Ouch; I guess I'll never cite that work in one of my papers. We use a different reference style convention for author names and it would take a day just to reformat the reference citation.