How unusual are single-author manuscripts?
I’m a wet lab rat. Most of my publications come from bench work, which is time-consuming and usually requires a lot of collaborators. However, during the pandemic I taught myself Python and data analysis, and I fell in love with it. I still do wet lab work, but data analysis has become kind of a hobby. Right now, I have two or three manuscripts that I think are publishable. The problem is that I did everything myself, from developing the hypothesis to running the analyses and writing the manuscript so, I’d be the only author. I’ve seen single-author papers before, but they’re not very common. In fact, I usually raise an eyebrow when I see one. Is it really that unusual?
u/zikaBr — 2 days ago