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Re:More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors by SkyBelow on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @04:59PM (#21518624)
Coffee, M. has published 7 different papers.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=author%3A%22Coffee%2C...

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Re:More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors by skissane on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @05:32PM (#21518937)
Most of the M. Coffee papers are actually by two real medical researchers with that surname, one called Megan and the other called Michelle.
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Re:More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors by SkyBelow on Thursday November 14, 2019 @09:25AM (#21535550)
I was wondering what happens when someone has the same surname and same first initial. I was hoping it has some way of telling them apart, but it seems I was hoping for too much.
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