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Dave W.
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 Posted - 02/18/2015 : 20:10:41
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Larry Moran found a slightly hefty scientific paper:The end of the paper was somewhat interesting. There seemed to be a lot of authors and affiliations. Let's count the authors 1,2,3,...401! There are 401 authors on this paper and they work at 300 different institutes and universities. The list of authors and affiliations take up three pages in the print edition of the journal! A second paper was even worse.
Ironically, the subject matter of these bloated papers was... fat.
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Kil
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Dave W.
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Dave W.
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Posted - 02/19/2015 : 08:28:15 [Permalink]
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By the way, that first article Moran ran across is, at best, ten full pages long, so 30 percent of it is the list of 401 authors and affiliations (for a paper with a mere 96 references).
Edited to add that 30% body fat is generally unhealthy. |
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tw101356
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Posted - 02/19/2015 : 19:44:47 [Permalink]
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My wife manages electronic publishing for a well-respected medical journal. She was recently complaining about having to deal with a paper that had 600 authors. About a dozen actually analyzed the data and wrote the paper. All the rest collected requested data from patients and forwarded it to the authors.
Apparently each physician spent about an hour a week over two years working on the data collection, so the paper reflects genuine effort from all 600. |
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Science bloat
