Meaning of overauthor | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To add too many names to the list of authors on a work produced by a team.
2. To continue revising a work past the point where the revisions improve the work.

Examples

“In most cases, it is better to "overauthor" in team publications than to "underauthor", to include⟳ an individual if there is...”

“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;”

“Overauthoring and Failure to Acknowledge”

“In 1817, which marks the first appearance of The Ancient Mariner as a work⟳ by Coleridge, the poem is, by contrast, almost overauthored.”

“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.'”

“Caught between the plan⟳ and the non-plan the city-as-text vacillates between being overauthored and unauthored.”

“Whilst there are many aspects of both the interview data and their analysis that I could choose⟳ to focus⟳ on here, it may lead⟳ to a thin, possibly falsely chronological and over-simplistic/over-authored narrative.”

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