JWST Reports

Paper Counts

Year GO Archival Part GO Part Archival Programs not Assigned Total
2025 564 276 185 1 1026
2024 420 231 105 7 763
2023 240 141 12 2 395
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 4257 659
2023 2509 353
2022 677 51
2021 0 0
Total 7079 1485

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 1026 19078 19.0 9724 17.0 3328 12.0 6017 33.0
2024 763 33248 44.0 18159 43.0 6811 29.0 8078 77.0
2023 395 33470 85.0 21410 89.0 11151 79.0 826 69.0
2022 51 4189 82.0 2157 90.0 1550 60.0 482 482.0
2021 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 2235 89985 40.0 51450 41.0 22840 34.0 15403 51.0

Number of papers using JWST instruments

Year NIRCam NIRSpec MIRI FGS NIRISS
2025 572 479 372 0 89
2024 453 298 257 0 54
2023 252 122 108 1 43
2022 33 9 15 0 9
2021 0 0 0 0 0
Total 1310 908 752 1 195

Number of papers using JWST instruments chart