overauthor

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To add too many names to the list of authors on a work produced by a team.

   • 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
2. 2

   To continue revising a work past the point where the revisions improve the work.

   • In 1817, which marks the first appearance of The Ancient Mariner as a work by Coleridge, the poem is, by contrast, almost overauthored.
   • Caught between the plan and the non-plan the city-as-text vacillates between being overauthored and unauthored.

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