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 4258 659
2023 2512 353
2022 677 51
2021 0 0
Total 7085 1484

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 21130 21.0 10856 19.0 3721 13.0 6540 35.0
2024 763 35084 46.0 19237 46.0 7177 31.0 8460 81.0
2023 395 34682 88.0 22190 92.0 11552 82.0 856 71.0
2022 51 4316 85.0 2215 92.0 1608 62.0 493 493.0
2021 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 2236 95212 43.0 54498 44.0 24058 36.0 16349 54.0

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