alt Hacker NewsWhy? For all the automatic academic score tracking systems it doesn't matter one bit if it is Wulf et al. or Wulf and McKee.
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john_strinlai • yesterday at 8:01 PM
its about respect, not about academic score tracking systems
Why? For all the automatic academic score tracking systems it doesn't matter one bit if it is Wulf et al. or Wulf and McKee.
its about respect, not about academic score tracking systems
The automated ones don't care, but it absolutely matters for the informal credit assignment process that actually runs academia.
I really wish we had a better way to "name" papers. Big clinical trials often have an acronym (often hilariously forced: "CXCessoR4"). That takes the emphasis off (one) lead author but it's implausibly hard to make up one for every research paper.