Description The number of authors per article in the subject area Medicine is 11 on average with a maximum of 1193 authors (Figure 1). Only Physics and Astronomy (Schmidt et al. 2017a) as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology (Schmidt et al. 2017a) have higher numbers regarding authors per article. The mean number of coauthors is increasing by 0.4 per year in the respective time period.
Methodology We conducted an Advanced search in Scopus – a bibliographic data base with more than 22.000 peer-reviewed journals (Scopus, 2017) – between 27th of February and 7th of March 2017.
Description The number of authors per article in the subject area Physics and Astronomy is 1268 on average with a maximum of 5154 authors in one paper (ATLAS Collaboration et al., 2015). The mean number of coauthors is increasing by 58 per year in the respective time period (Figure 1). The articles in this analysis ( n = 2135) were cited 27 times on average.