As someone in STEM I'd like to point out that the first article you linked to focuses heavily on papers where there are six or more authors. As anyone in STEM could tell you, papers with six or more authors involve research where the ideas and workload are highly unlikely to be distributed evenly. My (correct) knee-jerk reaction when som…
As someone in STEM I'd like to point out that the first article you linked to focuses heavily on papers where there are six or more authors. As anyone in STEM could tell you, papers with six or more authors involve research where the ideas and workload are highly unlikely to be distributed evenly. My (correct) knee-jerk reaction when someone says they're published but then I see they're one of half a dozen authors on their paper is, "oh, it's one of THOSE papers". There's really no telling from a paper with lots of authors whether any given author did anything noteworthy or if they were dead weight. Sounds like the perfect environment to foster diversity without risking too much.
As someone in STEM I'd like to point out that the first article you linked to focuses heavily on papers where there are six or more authors. As anyone in STEM could tell you, papers with six or more authors involve research where the ideas and workload are highly unlikely to be distributed evenly. My (correct) knee-jerk reaction when someone says they're published but then I see they're one of half a dozen authors on their paper is, "oh, it's one of THOSE papers". There's really no telling from a paper with lots of authors whether any given author did anything noteworthy or if they were dead weight. Sounds like the perfect environment to foster diversity without risking too much.