The phrase "a paper by three" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It could be used in a context where you are referring to a paper authored by three individuals, but it needs more specificity.
Example: "I recently read a paper by three researchers that explored the effects of climate change on marine life."
Alternatives: "a paper authored by three" or "a paper written by three".
The best academic analysis of the issue is a paper by three finance professors at Harvard Business School, Samuel G. Hanson, David S. Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam.
Last year the journal Geophysical Research Letters published a paper by three experts at University College London which calculated that the ice in the winter of 2007/8 was thinner than the previous five-year average by 26cm, plus or minus 5cm.
According to a paper by three psychological researchers — Michael W. Kraus, at the University of California, San Francisco; Stéphane Côté, at the University of Toronto; and Dacher Keltner, the University of California, Berkeley — members of the upper class are less adept at reading emotions.
And, as it turns out, discrimination by Airbnb hosts seems to be widespread, according to a paper by three Harvard researchers.
In other words, that average weight gain is only seven pounds, though still a potentially dangerous amount, according to a paper by four members of the Department of Nutritional Sciences, which will be published this spring in The Journal of American College Health.
The facts seem perfectly clear: a paper by two economists, one of whom, Angus Deaton, has just won a Nobel prize, shows that the mortality rates for white men in the US, which were declining steadily, as you'd expect in an age of peace and prosperity, have suddenly got much worse among the middle-aged.
And then there is Dennis Overbye's piece in the Science Times, on a paper, by two "otherwise distinguished physicists" (New Scientist calls them "reasonably distinguished") proposing that CERN's Large Hadron Collider, a seventeen-mile-long underground tunnel in Switzerland, be put to work drawing cards from a deck just to be sure that forces from the future haven't been sabotaging it.
A new paper by three economists: David Autor, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson, looks at the effects of rising Chinese import competition on regional American labour markets from 1990 to 2007.
These claims are largely false: a recent paper by three economists at the London School of Economics concluded, "EU immigrants are more educated, younger, more likely to be in work and less likely to claim benefits than the UK-born".
My colleague cites a 2002 paper by three MIT political scientists that finds that campaign contributions have little influence on candidates' political actions, which are overwhelmingly determined by party and by the convictions of voters in their districts.
The debate over how much slavery shaped modern institutions in the North was sparked again last month with the publication of a research paper by three doctoral students at Yale University detailing how slavery financed the university's first endowed professorship and its first endowed scholarships and library fund.
