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MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery

(economics.mit.edu)
333 points carabiner | 1 comments | 16 May 25 15:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.297s | source
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dougb5 ◴[16 May 25 20:26 UTC] No.44009515[source]▶
This makes me think about the credibility of single-author vs. multi-author papers in different disciplines. In computer science, a paper is seen as suspicious if there's just one author (at least nowadays). But in economics it seems much more common. Can an economist explain this for me (or perhaps a paper written by multiple economists?)
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1. mizzao ◴[17 May 25 02:07 UTC] No.44011506[source]▶
While in CS multi-author papers are the norm, in econ it is quite common to have solo-authored papers, with senior PhD students solo-authoring papers without their advisor as a coauthor. And it is rare to see an econ paper with more than 3 authors.

As a CS PhD who has worked with many economists, my understanding is that the culture sees it as diluting credit, and so might put people in the acknowledgements where computer science folks would add them as authors.