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justinnk • today at 9:39 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

This one [0] about the Higgs boson is hard to beat. Pages 25-32 are just full of around 5150 „authors“, pages 33-37 are their affilliations.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7214


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tempay • today at 10:02 PM

Even without that particularly special case, high-energy physics collaborations have long since broken the idea of authors. There are now many collaborations with hundreds of authors publishing regularly and quite a few that are into the thousands.

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