Listed authors of reports are a bit like credits in film, and similarly, in fields/production where you have a lot of special-effects/complicated scientific apparatuses/huge custom built computer clusters for doing the analysis, you get a lot of supporting personell that you might want to credit.
Oarticle physics papers sometimes list a huge number of authors, record I think is 5154 for a paper from an LHC collaboration titled "Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in pp Collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments"
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Listed authors of reports are a bit like credits in film, and similarly, in fields/production where you have a lot of special-effects/complicated scientific apparatuses/huge custom built computer clusters for doing the analysis, you get a lot of supporting personell that you might want to credit.
Oarticle physics papers sometimes list a huge number of authors, record I think is 5154 for a paper from an LHC collaboration titled "Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in pp Collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments"
Nature wrote about it https://www.nature.com/news/physics-paper-sets-record-with-m...