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"ref": "1982, Miscellaneous Publication - Issues 18-19, page 47",
"text": "In most cases, it is better to \"overauthor\" in team publications than to \"underauthor\", to include an individual if there is...",
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"ref": "1986 October, SP Lock, “For wrapping the fish and chips”, in Archives of disease in childhood, volume 61, number 10",
"text": "Articles were not then overauthored or overreferenced: the mean number of authors per original article was 1-5 (range 1-4) in 1926, compared with 3-3 (range 1-12) in 1985;",
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"ref": "2008, RL Ballard, An ethnographic and philosophical investigation into patrol officers: Communication ethics as critical work",
"text": "Overauthoring and Failure to Acknowledge",
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"To add too many names to the list of authors on a work produced by a team."
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"ref": "1994, Jack Stillinger, Coleridge and Textual Instability",
"text": "In 1817, which marks the first appearance of The Ancient Mariner as a work by Coleridge, the poem is, by contrast, almost overauthored.",
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"ref": "2010 Fall, Sheila Liming, “Of Anarchy and Amateurism: Zine Publication and Print Dissent”, in The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, volume 43, number 2, page 137",
"text": "The problem that Benjamin identifies with this impulse, however, is the opportunity to overauthor the world; in the same essay Benjamin castigates the practice of photography as artistic production, stating that this art form merely 'succeed[s] in transforming even abject poverty—by apprehending it in a fashionably perfected manner—into an object of enjoyment.'",
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"ref": "2013, Jonathan Hughes, Simon Sadler, Non-Plan, page 137",
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"ref": "2010, Ann-Marie Bathmaker, Penelope Harnett, Exploring Learning, Identity and Power through Life History and Narrative Research",
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