I would like to obtain useful answers in this regard, in order to solidify scientific research on the one hand, and to obtain approvals to publish with certainty, in scientific journals indexed in the Scopus and Clarivate databases on the second hand.
I think there cannot be a general rule. The quality of a publication depends on many factors, not so much on the number of authors. In humanities, there is a tendency for single author publications, whereas in many sciences it is not possible to get results alone, because experiments can be done only as a collaborative work. In high-energy physics with accelators, even several thousand collaborators are needed. See also these discussions:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Single_author_papers_vs_multiple_ones_which_ones_have_more_value
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Solo_author_vs_multi_authors_papers_which_is_more_reliable
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_do_you_think_about_multiple_author_papers
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What-do-you-think-about-articles-where-the-list-of-coauthors-is-bigger-than-the-article-itself
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Group_Authorship_is_there_a_minmum_and_maximum
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_there_a_limit_to_the_number_of_authors_on_any_scientific_publication_regardless_of_disciplineWhat_is_the_number_of_restrictions_if_there_are_any
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How-many-maximum-number-of-authors-are-enough-in-a-research-paper
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Mesmerizing_list_of_authors_5_154_in_one_article_research_break_through_is_a_group_activity_but_do_we_need_to_include_whole_community
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_do_you_think_about_single_author_paper
A comprehensive and important answer. Indeed, scientific articles in the humanities do not require several researchers most of the time, but articles that examine and analyze dozens of samples do. Thank you for this wonderful answer.
Doctor Wolfgang R. Dick
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