Between 2016 and 2020, researchers based in China were up to nine times more likely to list multiple corresponding authors on a paper than were academics in other countries, according to a new analysis.
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From 2016 to 2020, almost one-third of papers by authors in China had multiple corresponding authors — but policy reforms are expected to have dampened the trend.