Here’s a really great video on the topic in regard to the head of Havard’s astrophysics department.

https://youtu.be/aY985qzn7oI?si=V7YS5RXstfYoEXc6

Paul Erdos has entered the chat.

anyone care to shed light on how physics authorship practices differ from the others that results in its exclusion?

Wow, this really is disturbing. Clinical medicine is the last field where we want to see fraud and fudging of numbers.