diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/authorsMap.test.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/authorsMap.test.ts
index 9384bf6259a0..1522c5c3f55b 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/authorsMap.test.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/authorsMap.test.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import {
   type AuthorsMapInput,
   checkAuthorsMapPermalinkCollisions,
   getAuthorsMap,
-  validateAuthorsMap,
   validateAuthorsMapInput,
 } from '../authorsMap';
 import type {AuthorsMap} from '@docusaurus/plugin-content-blog';
@@ -305,7 +304,7 @@ describe('authors socials', () => {
       },
     };
 
-    expect(validateAuthorsMap(authorsMap)).toEqual(authorsMap);
+    expect(validateAuthorsMapInput(authorsMap)).toEqual(authorsMap);
   });
 
   it('throw socials that are not strings', () => {
@@ -338,17 +337,17 @@ describe('authors socials', () => {
     };
 
     expect(() =>
-      validateAuthorsMap(socialNumber),
+      validateAuthorsMapInput(socialNumber),
     ).toThrowErrorMatchingInlineSnapshot(
       `[ValidationError: "ozaki.socials.twitter" must be a string]`,
     );
     expect(() =>
-      validateAuthorsMap(socialNull),
+      validateAuthorsMapInput(socialNull),
     ).toThrowErrorMatchingInlineSnapshot(
       `[ValidationError: "ozaki.socials.twitter" must be a string]`,
     );
     expect(() =>
-      validateAuthorsMap(socialNull2),
+      validateAuthorsMapInput(socialNull2),
     ).toThrowErrorMatchingInlineSnapshot(
       `[ValidationError: "ozaki.socials" should be an author object containing properties like name, title, and imageURL.]`,
     );
@@ -366,7 +365,7 @@ describe('authors socials', () => {
     };
 
     expect(() =>
-      validateAuthorsMap(authorsMap),
+      validateAuthorsMapInput(authorsMap),
     ).toThrowErrorMatchingInlineSnapshot(
       `[ValidationError: "ozaki.socials.twitter" must be a string]`,
     );
@@ -384,6 +383,6 @@ describe('authors socials', () => {
       },
     };
 
-    expect(validateAuthorsMap(authorsMap)).toEqual(authorsMap);
+    expect(validateAuthorsMapInput(authorsMap)).toEqual(authorsMap);
   });
 });
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/authorsMap.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/authorsMap.ts
index e5c358b422f5..fd8f2eece562 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/authorsMap.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/authorsMap.ts
@@ -168,11 +168,3 @@ export async function getAuthorsMap(params: {
   const authorsMap = normalizeAuthorsMap({authorsMapInput, ...params});
   return authorsMap;
 }
-
-export function validateAuthorsMap(content: unknown): AuthorsMapInput {
-  const {error, value} = AuthorsMapInputSchema.validate(content);
-  if (error) {
-    throw error;
-  }
-  return value;
-}