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Multiauthor Papers: Onward and Upward
Having last examined the phenomenon of multiauthor papers five years ago, ScienceWatch returns to assess the shifting population of papers whose listed authors number from the dozens to the thousands. The thresholds of “hyperauthorship” have reached new heights in recent years, driven in particular by one international undertaking in high-energy physics.
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Mauricio Cisternas and Knud Jahnke
Mauricio Cisternas and Knud Jahnke talk about their 2011 Astrophysical Journal paper, “The bulk of the black hole growth since z ~ 1 occurs in a secular universe: No major merger-AGN connection,” from the field of Space Science, in this Fast Breaking Paper commentary. From the interview: “In our paper we tackled the problem of how to supply the necessary "food" for a black hole to consume. Early observations of some of the most-bright active galaxies, known as quasars, revealed that...”
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Mirjam Cvetic on String Theory and Supersymmetry
Our Special Topics analysis of supersymmetry research over the last decade has demonstrated that Professor Mirjam Cvetic of the University of Pennsylvania is a highly cited author in the field. In our special dataset on supersymmetry, Cvetic has contributed to 62 papers cited a total of 2,764 times, placing her at #8 among authors ranked by total citations. In this interview, she talks with ScienceWatch.com correspondent Gary Taubes about her work.
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