JWST Reports

Paper Counts

Year GO Archival Part GO Part Archival Programs not Assigned Total
2025 564 276 185 2 1027
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 5033 886
2024 4257 660
2023 2512 353
2022 677 51
2021 0 0
Total 7086 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 1027 22504 22.0 11598 21.0 3946 14.0 6946 38.0
2024 763 36384 48.0 19979 48.0 7457 32.0 8737 83.0
2023 395 35436 90.0 22704 95.0 11763 83.0 882 74.0
2022 51 4377 86.0 2251 94.0 1625 62.0 501 501.0
2021 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 2236 98701 44.0 56532 45.0 24791 37.0 17066 56.0

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