Is one enough?

From time to time, I comment on authorship issues to steer both experienced and novice authors in the right direction. My concern in this editorial is that I am seeing a trend towards single author papers submitted to EJHP . As someone who has published over 200 peer-reviewed research papers, none have been as a single author. Why do I wish to discourage single author submission? Single author papers can be reliable, but research needs to be collaborative and ideally interdisciplinary. Where there is a lack of peer collaboration, opportunities may be lost to improve methodology and engaging writing; in addition, biases may … Correspondence to Professor Philip Wiffen; pwiffen{at}oxfordsrs.org.uk