Group Effort in Modern Physics Research.
In the Physical Review for the year 1957, as a sample, multiple authorship appears with greatest relative frequency in communications from government, academic, and industrial laboratories, in that order. For the three types, it appears that research is conducted on the average by groups and not by individuals. These conclusions are at variance with premises assumed recently by R. S. Uhrbrock (1).
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