The story
- Proto-Indo-European*úp
- Proto-Indo-European*upér
- Proto-Hellenic*hupér
- Ancient Greekῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
- Ancient Greekῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)
- Englishhyper-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ewg-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂owg-éye-ti
- Proto-Italic*augejō
- Proto-Italic*augeō
- Latinaugeō
- Latinauctor
- Anglo-Normanautour
- Middle Englishauctour
- Englishauthor
- Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
- Englishauthorship
- English todayhyperauthorship
From hyper- + authorship. Sense 1 was coined by American academic Blaise Cronin in the article “Hyperauthorship: A postmodern perversion or evidence of a structural shift in scholarly communication practices?” (2001) published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.