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

[John Grehan]

Years ago I read examples in The Journal of Irreproducible Results" that
parodied such things as authorship (such a paper on some subject would have
a long line of authors and then some footnote about why certain
authors were listed that were not much different from what Lynn mentioned.
I remember being quite surprised when arriving in the US to learn that
supervisors got their name on all student papers even though they did none
of the actual work. I was also in a situation where I was paid to do some
identification work and the researcher insisted on my being included as a
co-author. The person meant well and due to the particular circumstance I
did not raise opposition to that in order to avoid any unpleasantness at
that institution due to my very junior status. But I have never felt good
about that and do not include the paper in my published works.

John Grehan

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 4:53 AM Lynn Raw via Taxacom <
taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:

> 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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