Embrace teams large and small to foster the health of research

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Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. Advertisement You have full access to this article via The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries Small research teams are more likely to publish papers that pose new ideas, as opposed to elaborating on existing questions.Credit: Keith Brofsky/Getty Modern science is big, and author lists are growing. The celebrated 2015 paper estimating the Higgs boson’s mass had a record-breaking 5,154 authors. And the number of papers with more than 1,000 authors has surged. At the other end of the scale, single-author papers are scarce — almost non-existent in some fields. In an ecology journal, for instance, they droppe

Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X You have full access to this article via your institution. Download PDF Small research teams are more likely to publish papers that pose new ideas, as opposed to elaborating on existing questions. Credit: Keith Brofsky/Getty Modern science is big, and author lists are growing. The celebrated 2015 paper estimating the Higgs boson’s mass had a record-breaking 5,154 authors . And the number of papers with more than 1,000 authors has surged . At the other end of the scale, single-author papers are scarce — almost non-existent in some fields. In an

Embrace teams large and small to foster the health of research

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