On house renovation and coauthoring (with a little excursus on the Holy Grail of bibliometrics)

TL;DR

This paper offers a personal reflection on coauthoring, bibliometric measures like the h-index, and their implications in physics literature, encouraging critical thinking about research evaluation metrics.

Contribution

It provides a subjective discussion on bibliometric evaluation and coauthoring practices, inspired by observations from physics literature, without presenting definitive conclusions.

Findings

Rummaging through physics literature prompts reflection on bibliometrics.

Highlights the subjective nature of evaluating scientific impact.

Encourages critical thinking about research metrics.

Abstract

More than a paper, this is just a little divertissement about coauthoring, the Hirsch h-index, and bibliometric evaluation in general. Without pretending to yield any general conclusions, what I found rummaging through the physics literature made me think quite a bit. I hope the same will happen to my readers, even it they will likely be much less than 25, which is the audience one of the greatest Italian writers (whom, is left to the reader to single out) addresses to.