scrartcl Titlepage, Authors and \thanks Function

Hello,

I am using scrartcl to write an article. As per most journals they would like author affiliations for each author and these should refer to authors by number, not symbol. For example John Middleton 1 (then a footnote 1. University of Nowhere). However, scrartcl only allows symbols and will not allow footnotes within the \author environment. Furthermore, the list of authors is longer than there are symbols for the footnotes.

I'd like to be able to use numbers for the \thanks¹ if possible.

Thanks for any suggestions.

aric

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