FreeSurfer Stats
This page lists the various stats about the usage of freesurfer, with notes on how each is gathered.
Contents
Licenses
last updated April 19 2022
year |
year total |
grand total |
2000 |
172 |
172 |
2001 |
149 |
321 |
2002 |
230 |
551 |
2003 |
392 |
943 |
2004 |
385 |
1328 |
2005 |
500 |
1828 |
2006 |
722 |
2550 |
2007 |
962 |
3512 |
2008 |
1126 |
4638 |
2009 |
1549 |
6187 |
2010 |
1914 |
8101 |
2011 |
2326 |
10427 |
2012 |
2548 |
12975 |
2013 |
2831 |
15806 |
2014 |
3489 |
19295 |
2015 |
3787 |
23082 |
2016 |
4088 |
27170 |
2017 |
4806 |
31976 |
2018 |
5479 |
37455 |
2019 |
5984 |
43439 |
2020 |
5826 |
49265 |
2021 |
6322 |
55587 |
2022 |
1954 |
57541 |
To generate this license count, ssh to fsurfer@surfer (make sure you have access first), then run the script /home/fsurfer/get_license_totals. This will generate the above table.
Webpage visits
Visitor stats for surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu are available at https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/secure/awstats.html
Open Source
last updated Oct 15 2021
Info gathered from https://github.com/freesurfer/freesurfer
- 30,145 commits
- 64 contributors
Mailing List
last updated Oct 15 2021
There are 3,114 freesurfer mailing list subscribers (includes those who do not receive messages but can post).
To determine this number, login to the administrative interface of the freesurfer mailing list, click 'Membership Management', and the total number of users is shown italicized in the middle. This number includes those who have opted to not receive the mailings. To subtract who has opted to not receive emails, each of the 20 or so pages of the membership list must be checked (tedious, but this takes about five minutes, versus trying to figure out how this info is stored in the bowels of the mailing list server).
References Per Year
last updated Oct 15 2021
Google Scholar results of the search for 'FreeSurfer', by year, using custom range feature, and limited to English language only:
year |
results |
2021* |
4370 |
2020 |
4660 |
2019 |
4240 |
2018 |
4040 |
2017 |
3450 |
2016 |
2680 |
2015 |
2320 |
2014 |
1910 |
2013 |
1550 |
2012 |
1350 |
2011 |
937 |
2010 |
717 |
2009 |
518 |
2008 |
286 |
2007 |
183 |
2006 |
116 |
2005 |
80 |
2004 |
66 |
2003 |
28 |
2002 |
19 |
2001 |
28 |
2000 |
5 |