Labels, names, and number of authors in the journals considered. In parentheses is given the reduction year (discussed in Section 4) and the number of authors up to this year. One (resp. two) asterisk(s) indicate the journals where authors with one (resp. two) paper(s) are discarded.
| Label . | Journal name (reduction year) . | # authors (reduction) . |
|---|---|---|
| NAT | Nature* (1950) | 63,791 (3,374) |
| PNA | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA** (1950) | 55,849 (2,495) |
| SCI | Science* (1940) | 48,928 (4,788) |
| LAN | The Lancet* (1910) | 33,416 (3,015) |
| NEM | New England Journal of Medicine* (1950) | 27,078 (3,842) |
| PLC | Plant Cell (2000) | 20,649 (4,712) |
| ACS | Journal of the American Chemical Society* (1930) | 82,223 (5,301) |
| TAC | IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2000) | 8,911 (3,603) |
| ENE | Energy (2005) | 28,920 (4,491) |
| CHA | Chaos | 7,409 |
| SIA | SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics | 6,106 |
| AMA | Annals of Mathematics | 3,679 |
| PRD | Physical Review D | 64,922 |
| PRL | Physical Review Letters* | 90,993 |
| Label . | Journal name (reduction year) . | # authors (reduction) . |
|---|---|---|
| NAT | Nature* (1950) | 63,791 (3,374) |
| PNA | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA** (1950) | 55,849 (2,495) |
| SCI | Science* (1940) | 48,928 (4,788) |
| LAN | The Lancet* (1910) | 33,416 (3,015) |
| NEM | New England Journal of Medicine* (1950) | 27,078 (3,842) |
| PLC | Plant Cell (2000) | 20,649 (4,712) |
| ACS | Journal of the American Chemical Society* (1930) | 82,223 (5,301) |
| TAC | IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2000) | 8,911 (3,603) |
| ENE | Energy (2005) | 28,920 (4,491) |
| CHA | Chaos | 7,409 |
| SIA | SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics | 6,106 |
| AMA | Annals of Mathematics | 3,679 |
| PRD | Physical Review D | 64,922 |
| PRL | Physical Review Letters* | 90,993 |