Vanity, thy name is Science
Every so often I come across articles that have an absurd number of authors. Science magazine is often the source of these. OK. I get it. This may be an author's only chance to publish in this journal, but it just seems so... petty. Here's my latest example.
Replication of Genome-Wide Association Signals in UK Samples Reveals Risk Loci for Type 2 Diabetes
Science 316 (5829): 1336-1341 (1 June 2007)
DOI: 10.1126/science.1142364
- 270 authors (see below)
- 2124 words (a very rough count, not including table captions or the last third of the paper that summarized committee members and contact information)
- 7.867 words/author
Eleftheria Zeggini, Michael N. Weedon, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Timothy M. Frayling, Katherine S. Elliott, Hana Lango, Nicholas J. Timpson, John R. B. Perry, Nigel W. Rayner, Rachel M. Freathy, Jeffrey C. Barrett, Beverley Shields, Andrew P. Morris, Sian Ellard, Christopher J. Groves, Lorna W. Harries, Jonathan L. Marchini, Katharine R. Owen, Beatrice Knight, Lon R. Cardon, Mark Walker, Graham A. Hitman, Andrew D. Morris, Alex S. F. Doney, The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC), Paul R. Burton, David G. Clayton, Nick Craddock, Panos Deloukas, Audrey Duncanson, Dominic P. Kwiatkowski, Willem H. Ouwehand, Nilesh J. Samani, John A. Todd, Peter Donnelly, Dan Davison, Doug Easton, David Evans, Hin-Tak Leung, Chris C. A. Spencer, Martin D. Tobin, Antony P. Attwood, James P. Boorman, Barbara Cant, Ursula Everson, Judith M. Hussey, Jennifer D. Jolley, Alexandra S. Knight, Kerstin Koch, Elizabeth Meech, Sarah Nutland, Christopher V. Prowse, Helen E. Stevens, Niall C. Ta ylor, Graham R. Walters, Neil M. Walker, Nicholas A. Watkins, Thilo Winzer, Richard W. Jones, Wendy L. McArdle, Susan M. Ring, David P. Strachan, Marcus Pembrey, Gerome Breen, David St. Clair, Sian Caesar, Katherine Gordon-Smith, Lisa Jones, Christine Fraser, Elaine K. Green, Detelina Grozeva, Marian L. Hamshere, Peter A. Holmans, Ian R. Jones, George Kirov, Valentina Moskvina, Ivan Nikolov, Michael C. O'Donovan, Michael J. Owen, David A. Collier, Amanda Elkin, Anne Farmer, Richard Williamson, Peter McGuffin, Allan H. Young, I. Nicol Ferrier, Stephen G. Ball, Anthony J. Balmforth, Jennifer H. Barrett, D. Timothy Bishop, Mark M. Iles, Azhar Maqbool, Nadira Yuldasheva, Alistair S. Hall, Peter S. Braund, Richard J. Dixon, Massimo Mangino, Suzanne Stevens, John R. Thompson, Francesca Bredin, Mark Tremelling, Miles Parkes, Hazel Drummond, Charles W. Lees, Elaine R. Nimmo, Jack Satsangi, Sheila A. Fisher, Alastair Forbes, Cathryn M. Lewis, Clive M. Onnie, Natalie J. Prescott, Jeremy Sanderson, Christopher G. Mathew, Jamie Barbour, M. Khalid Mohiuddin, Catherine E. Todhunter, John C. Mansfield, Tariq Ahmad, Fraser R. Cummings, Derek P. Jewell, John Webster, Morris J. Brown, G. Mark Lathrop, John Connell, Anna Dominiczak, Carolina A. Braga Marcano, Beverley Burke, Richard Dobson, Johannie Gungadoo, Kate L. Lee, Patricia B. Munroe, Stephen J. Newhouse, Abiodun Onipinla, Chris Wallace, Mingzhan Xue, Mark Caulfield, Martin Farrall, Anne Barton, Ian N. Bruce, Hannah Donovan, Steve Eyre, Paul D. Gilbert, Samantha L. Hider, Anne M. Hinks, Sally L. John, Catherine Potter, Alan J. Silman, Deborah P. M. Symmons, Wendy Thomson, Jane Worthington, David B. Dunger, Barry Widmer, Melanie Newport, Giorgio Sirugo, Emily Lyons, Fredrik Vannberg, Adrian V. S. Hill, Linda A. Bradbury, Claire Farrar, Jennifer J. Pointon, Paul Wordsworth, Matthew A. Brown, Jayne A. Franklyn, Joanne M. Heward, Matthew J. Simmonds, Stephen C. L. Gough, Sheila Seal, Michael R. Stratton, Nazneen Rahman, Maria Ban, An Goris, Stephen J. Sawcer, Alastair Compston, David Conway, Muminatou Jallow, Kirk A. Rockett, Suzannah J. Bumpstead, Amy Chaney, Kate Downes, Mohammed J. R. Ghori, Rhian Gwilliam, Sarah E. Hunt, Michael Inouye, Andrew Keniry, Emma King, Ralph McGinnis, Simon Potter, Rathi Ravindrarajah, Pamela Whittaker, Claire Widden, David Withers, Niall J. Cardin, Teresa Ferreira, Joanne Pereira-Gale, Ingeleif B. Hallgrimsdottir, Bryan N. Howie, Zhan Su, Yik Ying Teo, Damjan Vukcevic, David Bentley, Alistair Compston, Nilesh J. Ouwehand, Michael R. Samani, John D. Isaacs, Ann W. Morgan, Gerry D. Wilson, A. Ardern-Jones, J. Berg, A. Brady, N. Bradshaw, C. Brewer, G. Brice, B. Bullman, J. Campbell, B. Castle, R. Cetnarsryj, C. Chapman, C. Chu, N. Coates, T. Cole, R. Davidson, A. Donaldson, H. Dorkins, F. Douglas, D. Eccles, R. Eeles, F. Elmslie, D. G. Evans, S. Goff, S. Goodman, D. Goudie, J. Gray, L. Greenhalgh, H. Gregory, S. V. Hodgson, T. Homfray, R. S. Houlston, L. Izatt, L. Jackson, L. Jeffers, V. Johnson-Roffey, F. Kavalier, C. Kirk, F. Lalloo, C. Langman, I. Locke, M. Longmuir, J. Mackay, A. Magee, S. Mansour, Z. Miedzybrodzka, J. Miller, P. Morrison, V. Murday, J. Paterson, G. Pichert, M. Porteous, N. Rahman, M. Rogers, S. Rowe, S. Shanley, A. Saggar, G. Scott, L. Side, L. Snadden, M. Steel, M. Thomas, S. Thomas, Mark I. McCarthy, and Andrew T. Hattersley
