What do you think about two-author paper or more than two?
Dear Ahmad,
"What do you think about two-author paper or more than two?" -- You ask.
I see as normal that nowadays most of the papers have more than one author.
Even though there is no science of everything, many of scientific issues require to
be approached from a holistic, global, and multidisciplinary perspective. But there
should be some limits regarding the number of people involved in a paper. I
know of papers that have, for example, 90 authors or even more. I do not tkink
much of such papers. It is often the case that individuals espouse different
worldviews and, as such, it may not be easy to integrate them in a coherent paper.
To may underdstanding, the publish or perish policy is highly responsible for the
existence of papers that have, say, a multitude of authors. When this is the
case, the papermay may lack coherence and to have an ecletic tone. A paper with
more of 5-6 authors should be seen carefully such that it does not appear as an
indispensable publication.
KInd regards,
Orlando
I think that papers and researches ought to be authorshiped by more than one, two or even three authors.
Scientific research requires cooperation and tasks arrangements and team work.
As for one author paper it may be a review or scientific opinion from an expert in a specific field and this expert author ought to be pioneer in his field to the degree of being a super nova mega star if this term apply here.
Papers belonging to randamized controlled trials (RCTs) are usually blinded and such blindness in the paper methodology are impossible to be done by one author unless the blindness is from the participants side not the investigator side.
Of course my answer is much applicable in medicine which is my field .. but do not know whether it fits in your scientific field Ahmad or not ..
Best wishes and Ramadan Kareem ..
In philosophy, single author papers are the norm. Philosophy papers generally have the form of an argumentative essay rather than a report. Given the critical nature of the discipline, it would be rare to achieve a "meeting of minds" on all the aspects of a topic that are expounded in an article. If there is coauthorship, it tends to be in technical or formal areas of philosophy such as symbolic logic.
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