| The summaries in this table come from the more detailed listings of the Royal Society of London's Catalogue of Scientific Papers, Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik, Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt für Mathematik which were computed in January, 2002. An * indicates that the data was not complete at that time, or that the listing did not cover the entire 5-year period. |
| Year | RSC | JFM | MR | ZBL |
| 1800 | 92 | |||
| 1805 | 198 | |||
| 1810 | 262 | |||
| 1815 | 347 | |||
| 1820 | 388 | |||
| 1825 | 413 | |||
| 1830 | 701 | |||
| 1835 | 595 | |||
| 1840 | 836 | |||
| 1845 | 1,569 | |||
| 1850 | 1,949 | |||
| 1855 | 1,734 | |||
| 1860 | 2,333 | |||
| 1865 | 2,306 | |||
| 1870 | 2,744 | *2,543 | ||
| 1875 | 3,243 | 5,947 | ||
| 1880 | 4,425 | 7,266 | ||
| 1885 | 5,150 | 8,154 | ||
| 1890 | 5,870 | 10,545 | ||
| 1895 | 6,230 | 11,218 | ||
| 1900 | 6,372 | 13,359 | ||
| 1905 | 15,186 | |||
| 1910 | *13,502 | |||
| 1915 | *12,126 | |||
| 1920 | *8,116 | |||
| 1925 | 11,820 | |||
| 1930 | 19,926 | |||
| 1935 | 263 | 20,820 | ||
| 1940 | 5,188 | 20,544 | ||
| 1945 | 14,125 | 14,113 | ||
| 1950 | 24,042 | 22,257 | ||
| 1955 | 36,818 | 39,276 | ||
| 1960 | 53,113 | 55,611 | ||
| 1965 | 73,172 | 76,953 | ||
| 1970 | 94,811 | 108,004 | ||
| 1975 | 149,769 | 166,123 | ||
| 1980 | 188,675 | 209,401 | ||
| 1985 | 221,433 | 233,874 | ||
| 1990 | 267,789 | 258,965 | ||
| 1995 | 289,947 | 303,051 | ||
| 2000 | 323,852 | 335,574 |