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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 2327282, member: 44357&quot;]This breadth of collaboration is becoming increasingly prevalent. It may be in part due to the need to &quot;publish or perish&quot; in some fields, and perhaps a desire to ensure no one is left out from receiving credit. I generally prefer to operate in small teams but was just noted as one of twenty authors on a patent. We all contributed, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to ascertain the relative proportion of each contribution.</p><p><br /></p><p>The same is happening in other fields as well, with the emergence of &quot;kilo-authorship&quot;: <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-many-scientists-does-it-take-to-write-a-paper-apparently-thousands-1439169200" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-many-scientists-does-it-take-to-write-a-paper-apparently-thousands-1439169200" rel="nofollow">http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-many-scientists-does-it-take-to-write-a-paper-apparently-thousands-1439169200</a></p><p><br /></p><p>At least Greek engravers only had one name on signed dies, otherwise we&#039;d need much larger coins![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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