[Taxacom] Longest citation? (probably not...)

[Lynn Raw]

I guess that there was a time when only the people who did the work and wrote the paper were listed as authors. These days it seems that anyone remotely involved, such as the night watch person, dishwasher, janitor, post clerk, cleaners and any stray person walking past who made a comment could be included as authors. 
Just joking but it wasn't too long ago that many of these "authors" would have simply been thanked in the acknowledgements.

Lynn Raw

> On 10 Sep 2019, at 09:22, Tony Rees via Taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:
> 
> OK:
> 
> https://www.nature.com/news/physics-paper-sets-record-with-more-than-5-000-authors-1.17567
> 
> 
> But that is just physics, not real science...
> 
> Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
> https://about.me/TonyRees
> 
> 
> On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 at 17:12, Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hard to beat this one (with the et al. fully spelled out), particularly as
>> the full citation is longer than the actual article itself! Photography-based
>> taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological
>> sciences | CERÍACO | Zootaxa
>> <https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4196.3.9/24874>
>> 
>> Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially h...
>> 
>> Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially
>> harmful for biological sciences
>> <https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4196.3.9/24874>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tuesday, 10 September 2019, 06:58:39 am UTC, Tony Rees via Taxacom <
>> taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hello Taxacomers,
>> 
>> I just came across the following paper citation which I am guessing might
>> tax the permitted record length of the "authors" field in a few taxonomic
>> database, perhaps... not sure yet about my own, I will have to try! It's a
>> good one.
>> 
>> Citation is as follows:
>> 
>> Wijayawardene, NN; Hyde, KD; Rajeshkumar, KC; Hawksworth, DL; Madrid, H;
>> Kirk, PM; Braun, U; Singh, RV; Crous, PW; Kukwa, M; Lücking, R; Kurtzman,
>> CP; Yurkov, A; Haelewaters, D; Aptroot, A; Lumbsch, HT; Timdal, E; Ertz, D;
>> Etayo, J; Phillips, AJL; Groenewald, JZ; Papizadeh, M; Selbmann, L;
>> Dayarathne, MC; Weerakoon, G; Jones, EBG; Suetrong, S; Tian, Q;
>> Castañeda-Ruiz, RF; Bahkali, AH; Pang, KL; Tanaka, K; Dai, DQ; Sakayaroj,
>> J; Hujslová, M; Lombard, L; Shenoy, BD; Suija, A; Maharachchikumbura, SSN;
>> Thambugala, KM; Wanasinghe, DN; Sharma, BO; Gaikwad, S; Pandit, G; Zucconi,
>> L; Onofri, S; Egidi, E; Raja, HA; Kodsueb, R; Cáceres, MES; Pérez-Ortega,
>> S; Fiuza, PO; Monteiro, JS; Vasilyeva, LN; Shivas, RG; Prieto, M; Wedin, M;
>> Olariaga, I; Lateef, AA; Agrawal, Y; Fazeli, SAS; Amoozegar, MA; Zhao, GZ;
>> Pfliegler, WP; Sharma, G; Oset, M; Abdel-Wahab, MA; Takamatsu, S; Bensch,
>> K; de Silva, NI; De Kesel, A; Karunarathna, A; Boonmee, S; Pfister, DH; Lu,
>> YZ; Luo, ZL; Boonyuen, N; Daranagama, DA; Senanayake, IC; Jayasiri, SC;
>> Samarakoon, MC; Zeng, XY; Doilom, M; Quijada, L; Rampadarath, S; Heredia,
>> G; Dissanayake, AJ; Jayawardana, RS; Perera, RH; Tang, LZ; Phukhamsakda, C;
>> Hernández-Restrepo, M; Ma, X; Tibpromma, S; Gusmao, LFP; Weerahewa, D;
>> Karunarathna, SC. 2017. Notes for genera – Ascomycota. Fungal Diversity.
>> 86:1-594
>> 
>> Other contenders might be of interest...
>> 
>> Regards - Tony
>> Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
>> https://about.me/TonyRees
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