A numerical perspective on Nature authors.

Analysing data based solely on the corresponding author's affiliation can introduce some bias, as the co-author with the strongest English skills is often called on to be the corresponding author. With this caveat, we take a look at frequent submitters to Nature from universities, institutes and companies over the past year.

Most institutes (64%) accounted for just one submission, and 12% of institutes submitted five or more papers. A few universities — such as Stanford, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Cambridge, UK, and Tokyo University — each submitted more than 50 manuscripts. And these same institutes stand out in the published record. The average accept rate for institutes in the ‘top ten’ was 14% (discounting withdrawn and pending manuscripts).

88 countries submitted manuscripts to Nature during 2005.

38% of all submissions to Nature this year came from the United States.

3,187 universities, institutes and companies submitted manuscripts to Nature during 2005.

106 is the highest number of submissions made to Nature this year from a single university — from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.