Taken from the October 2015 issue of Physics World
With publications in particle physics containing thousands of authors, Sahal Yacoob describes how that can pose a problem when a “target culture” is applied to academia

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With publications in particle physics containing thousands of authors, Sahal Yacoob describes how that can pose a problem when a “target culture” is applied to academia
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Sahal Yacoob is a particle physicist at CERN and the University of Cape Town, South Africa, e-mail sahal.yacoob@uct.ac.za, @sahalyacoob on Twitter