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Science 21 February 1964:
Vol. 143. no. 3608, pp. 822 - 824
DOI: 10.1126/science.143.3608.822
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Multiple Authorship Trends in Scientific Papers

Beverly L. Clarke 1

1 Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 9650 Wisconsin Avenue, Washington, D. C. 20014

Since 1946 biomedical writers have shown no marked trend toward multiple authorship; the average number of authors per paper remains steady at about 2.3. This is in strong contrast tothe conclusion of Price from a study of Chemical Abstracts that the chemists' trend toward four or more authors per paper has been during this period, and continues to be, steeply exponential.


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