Re:No, I won't read your amateur Covid-19 “research paper”
by tzs on Monday May 04, 2020 @12:50PM
(#23070344)
I took a look at a few random recent papers at arxiv.org, in physics, biology, math, and economics. They all used "we".
Wikipedia says it is discourage in the social sciences, though, because "it fails to distinguish between sole authorship and co-authorship" [1].
I'm curious now why it is so important to distinguish between sole authorship and co-authorship via writing style. If you are reading the paper itself, a glance at the author list will tell you that.
Wikipedia says it is discourage in the social sciences, though, because "it fails to distinguish between sole authorship and co-authorship" [1].
I'm curious now why it is so important to distinguish between sole authorship and co-authorship via writing style. If you are reading the paper itself, a glance at the author list will tell you that.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosism