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Re:Academic success is either a crapshoot or a scam by whatshisface on Sunday December 24, 2017 @02:19PM (#16000874)
Here's a modern experimental paper. Scroll down to the authors. You'll know it when you see it.

https://cds.cern.ch/record/2282544/files/arXiv:1709.05260.pd...

Your statement about huge numbers of authors (as well as the great number of theoretical papers that have to wait a very long time before being confirmed or denied) is true.

Re:Academic success is either a crapshoot or a scam by geezerjay on Thursday December 28, 2017 @03:50AM (#16021028)
Wow the word-per-author ratio is close to 1. What's behind this padding?