Accepted papers reportedly rose from 968 in 2006 to 19,003 in 2025 across tracked venues
A user analyzing venues including CVPR, NeurIPS and SIGGRAPH reports a 27-fold rise in annual unique authors from 2006 to 2025, versus a 1.4-fold rise in papers per author.
TLDR
In a September 26, 2026 thread, a user says they analyzed 119,000 papers and 460,000 arXiv preprints. Across the tracked venues, they report 968 accepted papers in 2006, 19,003 in 2025 and 18,976 so far in 2026.
Their figures put annual unique authors at 2,042 in 2006 and 56,152 in 2025. Papers per author rose from 1.4 to 2.0, while authors per paper doubled from 2.9 to 5.8. The user argues that longer author lists explain much of the apparent rise in individual output, noting that 64% of active authors still have exactly one paper in a given year.
The user cites DBLP author IDs, arXiv data and official acceptance statistics, covering main tracks and excluding workshops.
Accepted papers reportedly rose from 968 in 2006 to 19,003 in 2025 across tracked venues
A user analyzing venues including CVPR, NeurIPS and SIGGRAPH reports a 27-fold rise in annual unique authors from 2006 to 2025, versus a 1.4-fold rise in papers per author.
TLDR
In a September 26, 2026 thread, a user says they analyzed 119,000 papers and 460,000 arXiv preprints. Across the tracked venues, they report 968 accepted papers in 2006, 19,003 in 2025 and 18,976 so far in 2026.
Their figures put annual unique authors at 2,042 in 2006 and 56,152 in 2025. Papers per author rose from 1.4 to 2.0, while authors per paper doubled from 2.9 to 5.8. The user argues that longer author lists explain much of the apparent rise in individual output, noting that 64% of active authors still have exactly one paper in a given year.
The user cites DBLP author IDs, arXiv data and official acceptance statistics, covering main tracks and excluding workshops.
