[meteorite-list] How Many Scientists Does It Take to Write a Paper?

[Paul H.]

Research Biologist Coins Term 'Kilo-Author' For Scientific
Journal Articles. all Things Considered, August 12, 2015
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/12/431959428/research-biologist-coins-term-kilo-author-for-scientific-journal-articles

How Many Scientists Does It Take to Write a Paper? 
Apparently, Thousands Scientific journals see a spike
in number of contributors; 24 pages of alphabetized
co-authors, Wall Street Journal http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-many-scientists-does-it-take-to-write-a-paper-apparently-thousands-1439169200

"His colleagues only discovered that his co-author was
a siamese cat several years later when Dr. Hetherington
started handing out copies of the paper signed with a
paw print."

An example of such a paper:

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration), 2015, Evidence of 
Wγγ Production in pp Collisions at s√=8  TeV and 
Limits on Anomalous Quartic Gauge Couplings with 
the ATLAS Detector
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 031802 – Published 16 July 2015'
http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.031802 --  http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.032001

Yours,

Paul