Asking questions/sending note to the three authors of a paper in economics, three personalized letters? A famous paper has three coauthors. I wrote a note regarding that paper and want to get some feedback from them. Shall I send the note and my questions in one email to the three authors together (with two of them in cc line or also in &quot;to&quot; line), or is it more respectful to send three different personalized letters?
If I am sending three personalized letters to each of them, shall I tell them that I also send the letter to the two other authors?
One obvious answer for natural science disciplines is to send one email to the corresponding author only. However, most economic papers have equal coauthors and many economic papers have no corresponding authors or three corresponding authors with email addresses specified. In contrast, the natural science papers usually only have one corresponding.
My solution would be to send one mail. Personalization seems a wasted effort as you don't know the people, I assume. It even seems a bit presumptuous.
But put all three authors on the TO: line, not some there and some on the CC:, line. The latter feels like you are picking a lead author and they may not agree with that.
With twenty authors, the corresponding author solution would be fine, but with only a few, send it to all.