{"id":25781,"date":"2025-10-22T12:45:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=25781"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:45:26","slug":"programmers-professors-and-parasites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2025\/10\/programmers-professors-and-parasites\/","title":{"rendered":"Programmers, Professors, and Parasites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the title of a <a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11948-009-9119-4\">2009 Stanford academic paper<\/a> by Justin Solomon that analyzes the history of credit and co-authorship in computer science. The paper argues for a more consistent publishing standard in the field by addressing issues of inconsistent co-authorship, where some contributors may receive credit for minimal work, leading to potential accountability problems.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>in fact, the 1993 Ig Nobel prize for &#8220;improbable research&#8221; in literature was awarded to &#8220;E. Topol, R. Califf, F. Van de Werf, P.W. Armstrong, and their 972 coauthors, for publishing a medical research paper which has one hundred times as many authors as pages<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, and their Fig 4 was only the beginning of the &#8220;gaming the system&#8221; enterprise&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25782\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25782\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-10-19-um-10.44.03.jpg\" rel=\"key\" data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25782 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-10-19-um-10.44.03-620x359.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-10-19-um-10.44.03-620x359.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-10-19-um-10.44.03-864x500.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-10-19-um-10.44.03-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-10-19-um-10.44.03.jpg 909w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fig. 4 Trends in author list alphabetization in computer science papers (data gathered from the DBLP Computer Science Bibliography) by Solomon 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 28.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the title of a 2009 Stanford academic paper by Justin Solomon that analyzes the history of credit and co-authorship in computer science. The paper argues for a more consistent publishing standard in the field by addressing issues of inconsistent co-authorship, where some contributors may receive credit for minimal work, leading to potential accountability &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2025\/10\/programmers-professors-and-parasites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Programmers, Professors, and Parasites<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note-worthy","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25783,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25781\/revisions\/25783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}