JWST Reports

Paper Counts

Year GO Archival Part GO Part Archival Programs not Assigned Total
2025 565 276 185 1 1027
2024 420 231 105 7 763
2023 243 141 12 2 398
2022 24 26 1 0 51
2021 0 0 0 0 0

Paper counts chart

Unique Authors

Year # Authors # First Authors
2025 5031 886
2024 4259 658
2023 2521 356
2022 678 51
2021 0 0
Total 7085 1486

Unique Authors Chart

Citations

The citations are the sum of all citations and the average number of citations for science papers published in that year. Due to the way citations are calculated via ADS, a single citing paper can count for two or more citations. Other observatories may calculate citations differently.
Year # Papers # Citations Avg # Citations # GO Citations Avg # GO Citations # AR Citations Avg # AR Citations # Part Citations Avg # Part Citations
2025 1027 24886 24.0 12969 23.0 4390 16.0 7527 41.0
2024 763 38434 50.0 21179 50.0 7891 34.0 9140 87.0
2023 398 36937 93.0 23807 98.0 12133 86.0 907 76.0
2022 51 4485 88.0 2315 96.0 1658 64.0 512 512.0
2021 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 2239 104742 47.0 60270 48.0 26072 39.0 18086 60.0

Number of papers using JWST instruments

Year NIRCam NIRSpec MIRI FGS NIRISS
2025 573 479 373 0 89
2024 453 298 257 0 54
2023 252 123 110 1 43
2022 33 9 15 0 9
2021 0 0 0 0 0
Total 1311 909 755 1 195

Number of papers using JWST instruments chart