Supernova discovery statistics for 2018

These are supernova stastics for the year 2018. If there are other statistics you are interested in, please let me know.
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For the year 2018, 9555 supernovae and 66 extragalactic novae were reported.
1488 of these supernovae were named by CBAT,
7625 were given possible supernova designations,
and 442 were not reported to CBAT.
185 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 6068 were found in named galaxies
213 objects were discovered by amateurs
5 were brighter than 13th Magnitude
91 were brighter than 16th Magnitude
1123 were brighter than 18th Magnitude
1206 Type I supernovae were found
  1078 Type Ia
    3 Type Ia-02cx
    15 Type Ia-91bg
    55 Type Ia-91T
    21 Type Ia-pec
  41 Type Ib
    3 Type Ibn
    5 Type Ib-pec
  61 Type Ic
    0 Type Icn
    18 Type Ic-pec
  19 Type SLSN-I
332 Type II supernovae were found
  42 Type IIn
  40 Type IIP
  22 Type IIb
  1 Type IIL
  7 Type SLSN-II
  1 Type II-pec
7 LBV (supernova impostors) were found
1336 were not supernovae or Extragalactic novae.
6640 were untyped
Of the 66 novae that were reported  16 were reported to CBAT and 50 were not
  2 were given official names by CBAT
  39 were found in M31
  8 were found in M81
  1 were found in M33
  37 were untyped


2399 objects were discovered by ZTF (prof) (AT2018liv)
2176 objects were discovered by Gaia (prof) (AT2018lhn)
1961 objects were discovered by PS1 (prof) (AT2018lgh)
1583 objects were discovered by ATLAS (prof) (AT2018lkq)
 476 objects were discovered by CRTS (prof) (2018leh)
 338 objects were discovered by ASAS-SN (prof) (AT2018leg)
 152 objects were discovered by ANTARES (prof) (AT2018mfp)
  88 objects were discovered by OGLE (prof) (AT2018lmt)
  56 objects were discovered by SNAD (AT2018mbz)
  35 objects were discovered by KEGS (prof) (AT2018brr)
  35 objects were discovered by TNTS (prof) (AT2018jmq)
  31 objects were discovered by PMO-Tsinghua Supernova Survey (PTSS) (prof) (2018hoy)
  30 objects were discovered by MASTER (prof) (2018lkg)
  28 objects were discovered by Superluminous Supernovae in the Epoch of Reionization (prof) (AT2018gzr)
  21 objects were discovered by Galaxy Zoo (AT2018ltd)
  19 objects were discovered by LOSS (prof) (AT2018hrg)
  18 objects were discovered by Malhar R. Kendurkar (AT2018jgt)
  18 objects were discovered by Tim Puckett, Jack Newton, et al. (2018isq)
  17 objects were discovered by XOSS (AT2018klr)
  14 objects were discovered by Koichi Itagaki (2018imf)
  12 objects were discovered by DLT40 (prof) (2018lab)
  12 objects were discovered by SPitzer InfraRed Intensive Transients Survey (prof) (SPIRITS18nu)
  11 objects were discovered by Kamil Hornoch et al. (Nova M81 2018-11a?)
   9 objects were discovered by PTF (prof) (AT2019jiz)
   8 objects were discovered by Italian Supernovae Search Project (AT2018hhy)
   7 objects were discovered by BraTS (prof) (AT2018hnj)
   7 objects were discovered by Emmanuel Conseil (AT2018lcl)
   7 objects were discovered by Stu Parker (2018hmy)
   3 objects were discovered by Jaroslaw Grzegorzek (2018hhn)
   3 objects were discovered by Jordi Camarasa (AT2018bro)
   3 objects were discovered by Masaki Tsuboi (AT2018bck)
   3 objects were discovered by Patrick Wiggins (2018gwo)
   3 objects were discovered by Rohit Chinchwadkar (AT2018feu)
   3 objects were discovered by SkyMapper (prof) (2018bwq)
   2 objects were discovered by Clay Sherrod (AT2018arb)
   2 objects were discovered by Evgeni Ovcharov et al. (Nova M31 2018-03b)
   1 objects were discovered by AZTEC (Arizona Transient Exploration and Characterization) (AZTEC18xx)
   1 objects were discovered by Blaz Mikuz (AT2018hhm)
   1 objects were discovered by Corona Borealis Observatory Supernova Survey (CSNS) (2018lcd)
   1 objects were discovered by Dark Energy Survey (prof) (DES17C3ihx)
   1 objects were discovered by Dennis Denisenko (AT2018jgq)
   1 objects were discovered by Galvez Ranera (AT2018lmm)
   1 objects were discovered by Garrigos Sanchez (AT2018awk)
   1 objects were discovered by George Carey (AT2018jas)
   1 objects were discovered by Giancarlo Cortini (2018amb)
   1 objects were discovered by Greg Bock (2018ecf)
   1 objects were discovered by HSC (AT2018lto)
   1 objects were discovered by Herman Mikuz (PIKA) (2018kzc)
   1 objects were discovered by Koichi Nishiyama and Fujio Kabashima (AT2018hld)
   1 objects were discovered by Malhar Kendurkar and Cedric Raguenaud (AT2018fhy)
   1 objects were discovered by Ralph Carter (AT2018rt)
   1 objects were discovered by SUNBIRD (2018ec)
   1 objects were discovered by Witold Caban (AT2018hik)
   1 objects were discovered by Yuji Tanaka (2018ast)
   1 objects were discovered by ePESSTO (AT2018cux)

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