ASCL.net

We were asked recently how many of our entries were attributed to one, two, or three authors. Would you guess that over a third of the codes in the ASCL -- 35% -- have only one author? Codes with 1-3 authors attributed, what we dubbed "short author list" codes, account for 68% of our entries. We ended up writing a short paper, published by Research Notes of the AAS (RNAAS), about authorship and citation numbers for team and short author list codes. It was a quick look and we hope to look more deeply into this; if you'd like to do the same, you can download our public data in JSON and find the code that we used for consolidating citations on GitHub.