【在 k*****n 的大作中提到】 : as my boss said yesterday: : Authorship is the currency we use in academia
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"而且我觉得作者太多,冲淡了第一作者的含金量。" No, it doesn't reduce the contribution by the first author. This is common thinking by newcomers and how they usually got into conflicts with the boss when the boss try to add more authors.