Re: [tlug] Journals, Authors and 'Free Peer Review'

[BALUTA Chris <baluta@example.com>]

Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com> wrote:
 
> It wouldn't be the first time that the sole contribution of one of the
> "authors" of a paper was to write their name on it. Sounds like about
> 0.1% to me. :-)

   There is actually a quite famous example of this, and it involves a
quite famous and important paper: George Gamow and his student Ralph Alpher
wrote a paper on the origin of the chemical elements. Gamow felt they
simply had to add Hans Bethe's name to the paper, so that the author list
read "Alpher-Beta-Gamow". (Bethe did 0% of the work, and was only informed
later that his name was added to the paper.)

   Yes, physicists can come up with real knee-slappers.

  -Chris

[See, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpher%E2%80%93Bethe%E2%80%93Gamow_paper ]