Daily Lol: This man must have a lot of friends August 8, 2007
Posted by Bertalan Meskó in Fun, Humor, Sciencefun.trackback
Would someone please explain it to me? I don’t even understand the title of the article…
(Hat Tip: Billrothhárom)
Update: Explanation at Clinical Cases and Images!
As I have heard (by now
), in basic science articles, the first (real) contributors are in alphabetical order, and the rest (cleaning ladies, pizzaboys etc.) are …well…the rest.
It’s more than weird weird…
The first name is usually the person who wrote this article and the last is usually the principal investigator. This looks like some kinds of consortium and I think it’s going too far to list everyone’s name (including the cleaning ladies, pizzaboys…) in this article.
[...] Source : Clinical Cases & Images, ScienceRoll [...]
I’m going to guess that it’s something from particle physics, where it’s common to have whole consortia working on things that require particle accelerators and such.
[...] striking to see a list of several PubMed articles with roughly 600 co-authors under each of them. ScienceRoll suspected that the first author (Aubert B.) must have a lot of friends and asked for an [...]