Talk:John E. Sulston

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[edit] category: published in PLoS

There are now 1708 papers in PLoS journals. There are about 4 authors average per article. That makes about 7000 authors. Some of them have published there more than once, so we'll say 3500 discrete authors. PLoS is a very distinguished journal, but there are abot 100 similarly distinguished, cponsidering all the fields of science: 700,000, most of whom will be graduae students, some of which will be distinguished. Do we want to include every one of them and tag them with the categories for each journal?

So perhaps we should think of it as scientists who are notable enough to be in WP who have published in PLoS journals. Let's say we'll have 20,000 eminent scientists, of which 5,000 are biologists, of whom perhaps 2,000 will by now have published in PLoS. (And similarly for all the journals any of them has published in, of which there are several thousand.

So we'll think of it as authors notable enough to be in PLoS who have published in journals notable enough to be in PLoS. We have then about 100 categories, with about 1,000 people in each. in science alone. What use is this? --DGG 01:14, 3 October 2006 (UTC)