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New authors by year

Each author page is counted once, in the year its earliest paper appeared.

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1952: 17 new authors; 1 verified, 6 percent
1953: 0 new authors; 0 verified, 0 percent
1954: 0 new authors; 0 verified, 0 percent
1955: 0 new authors; 0 verified, 0 percent
1956: 9 new authors; 0 verified, 0 percent
1957: 35 new authors; 0 verified, 0 percent
1958: 0 new authors; 0 verified, 0 percent
1959: 0 new authors; 0 verified, 0 percent
1960: 45 new authors; 0 verified, 0 percent
1961: 32 new authors; 2 verified, 6 percent
1962: 4 new authors; 1 verified, 25 percent
1963: 31 new authors; 0 verified, 0 percent
1964: 0 new authors; 0 verified, 0 percent
1965: 24 new authors; 7 verified, 29 percent
1966: 0 new authors; 0 verified, 0 percent
1967: 40 new authors; 5 verified, 13 percent
1968: 0 new authors; 0 verified, 0 percent
1969: 95 new authors; 15 verified, 16 percent
1970: 0 new authors; 0 verified, 0 percent
1971: 10 new authors; 0 verified, 0 percent
1972: 0 new authors; 0 verified, 0 percent
1973: 76 new authors; 12 verified, 16 percent
1974: 15 new authors; 2 verified, 13 percent
1975: 105 new authors; 31 verified, 30 percent
1976: 33 new authors; 2 verified, 6 percent
1977: 31 new authors; 2 verified, 6 percent
1978: 42 new authors; 15 verified, 36 percent
1979: 30 new authors; 3 verified, 10 percent
1980: 188 new authors; 35 verified, 19 percent
1981: 67 new authors; 17 verified, 25 percent
1982: 219 new authors; 40 verified, 18 percent
1983: 107 new authors; 26 verified, 24 percent
1984: 144 new authors; 30 verified, 21 percent
1985: 102 new authors; 22 verified, 22 percent
1986: 233 new authors; 65 verified, 28 percent
1987: 126 new authors; 19 verified, 15 percent
1988: 283 new authors; 73 verified, 26 percent
1989: 261 new authors; 85 verified, 33 percent
1990: 318 new authors; 82 verified, 26 percent
1991: 292 new authors; 59 verified, 20 percent
1992: 435 new authors; 102 verified, 23 percent
1993: 340 new authors; 71 verified, 21 percent
1994: 506 new authors; 85 verified, 17 percent
1995: 246 new authors; 49 verified, 20 percent
1996: 383 new authors; 82 verified, 21 percent
1997: 473 new authors; 96 verified, 20 percent
1998: 546 new authors; 114 verified, 21 percent
1999: 356 new authors; 72 verified, 20 percent
2000: 1,003 new authors; 264 verified, 26 percent
2001: 615 new authors; 106 verified, 17 percent
2002: 888 new authors; 192 verified, 22 percent
2003: 834 new authors; 135 verified, 16 percent
2004: 1,569 new authors; 278 verified, 18 percent
2005: 907 new authors; 147 verified, 16 percent
2006: 1,503 new authors; 292 verified, 19 percent
2007: 949 new authors; 161 verified, 17 percent
2008: 1,561 new authors; 256 verified, 16 percent
2009: 1,311 new authors; 199 verified, 15 percent
2010: 2,089 new authors; 336 verified, 16 percent
2011: 1,324 new authors; 186 verified, 14 percent
2012: 2,415 new authors; 320 verified, 13 percent
2013: 1,822 new authors; 265 verified, 15 percent
2014: 2,532 new authors; 298 verified, 12 percent
2015: 2,026 new authors; 281 verified, 14 percent
2016: 3,337 new authors; 436 verified, 13 percent
2017: 2,750 new authors; 357 verified, 13 percent
2018: 4,206 new authors; 581 verified, 14 percent
2019: 5,005 new authors; 716 verified, 14 percent
2020: 8,140 new authors; 1,098 verified, 13 percent
2021: 7,070 new authors; 1,032 verified, 15 percent
2022: 9,605 new authors; 1,762 verified, 18 percent
2023: 10,033 new authors; 2,205 verified, 22 percent
2024: 15,447 new authors; 3,579 verified, 23 percent
2025: 22,034 new authors; 7,914 verified, 36 percent
2026: 16,519 new authors; 7,895 verified, 48 percent

Authors are placed in the year of their first Anthology paper (1952–2026). The busiest debut year so far is 2025, with 22,034 new authors; the most recent year keeps growing as new volumes are ingested.

133,812: author pages
32,613: verified authors
29,597: with ORCID iDs
101,199: unverified pages