| ▲ | marricks 6 hours ago |
| There's only two authors! That's so rude! |
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| ▲ | setgree 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It’s also not correct; et al. is conventionally applied to three or more authors (it means “and others,” plural) |
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| ▲ | bjourne 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Why? For all the automatic academic score tracking systems it doesn't matter one bit if it is Wulf et al. or Wulf and McKee. |
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| ▲ | mattkrause an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | The automated ones don't care, but it absolutely matters for the informal credit assignment process that actually runs academia. I really wish we had a better way to "name" papers. Big clinical trials often have an acronym (often hilariously forced: "CXCessoR4"). That takes the emphasis off (one) lead author but it's implausibly hard to make up one for every research paper. | |
| ▲ | john_strinlai 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | its about respect, not about academic score tracking systems |
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