Exponential Authorship Inflation in Neuroscience and Psychology from the 1950s to the 2020s

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<p>How many researchers does it take to publish a paper in top journals in neuroscience and psychology? Manually coding 42,580 papers spanning 1879–2021 from 32 journals, we examine the evolution of authorship size and its rate of change, and evaluate forces that drive the changes. We found that, starting from the 1950s, the average authorship size per paper in neuroscience and psychology has increased exponential...

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73b14c39-fe7f-5ccc-afd4-0ee67bffd48e

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10.31234/osf.io/vfz9q