Research in Berkeley
Science Explorer records 118 research institutions in Berkeley, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Neurobehavioral Systems.
- Research institutions
- 118 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 277k ▲ 6% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 14.8M 53.3 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 22.0% all institutions 10.0%
- Active span
- 1950-2026 77 years on the record
A city carries no overall standing here. The quality score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.
Which research institutions are in Berkeley?
By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.
How concentrated the city is
The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does Berkeley work in?
In 2022-now, 60% of research in Berkeley is in Physical Sciences, 20% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (13%), Environmental Science (10%), Physics and Astronomy (9%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Physical Sciences.
Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this city does than the world.
Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
- Physical Sciences17k59.5%
- Engineering3,82413.2%
- Environmental Science2,96610.3%
- Physics and Astronomy2,7359.5%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences2,6159.0%
- Computer Science2,4318.4%
- Materials Science1,1544.0%
- Mathematics5852.0%
- Chemistry4811.7%
- Energy3111.1%
- Chemical Engineering1140.4%
- Social Sciences5,77320.0%
- Social Sciences2,6779.3%
- Psychology9033.1%
- Arts and Humanities8072.8%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance6012.1%
- Business, Management and Accounting4441.5%
- Decision Sciences3411.2%
- Life Sciences3,46112.0%
- Health Sciences2,4638.5%
- Medicine1,9336.7%
- Health Professions4451.5%
- Nursing650.2%
- Dentistry130.0%
- Veterinary80.0%
What is Berkeley strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Berkeley is most concentrated in Environmental Chemistry, Geophysics and Structural Biology (21.2× the world share in Environmental Chemistry).
- Environmental ChemistrySubfield · 1,213.8 works21×
- GeophysicsSubfield · 1,454.2 works16×
- Structural BiologySubfield · 57.0 works14×
- OceanographySubfield · 777.6 works11×
- Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 1,031.8 works7.6×
- Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 2,549.5 works6.2×
- Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 473.5 works5.8×
- Physics and AstronomyField · 2,543.3 works4.4×
Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.
The whole field profile
All 26 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 6.2×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Earth and Planetary Sciences6.22×2,550 works
- Physics and Astronomy4.37×2,543 works
- Environmental Science2.13×2,770 works
- Mathematics1.71×525 works
- Neuroscience1.27×541 works
- Energy1.19×285 works
- Decision Sciences1.19×302 works
- Chemical Engineering1.15×105 works
- Materials Science1.14×1,044 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.10×1,533 works
- Chemistry1.06×436 works
- Computer Science1.02×2,075 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.00×560 works
- Psychology0.99×790 works
- Arts and Humanities0.97×730 works
- Engineering0.89×3,485 works
- Social Sciences0.73×2,406 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.61×759 works
- Health Professions0.58×402 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.48×403 works
- Nursing0.46×58 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.41×108 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.34×32 works
- Medicine0.34×1,690 works
- Veterinary0.19×7 works
- Dentistry0.08×10 works
Which keywords describe research in Berkeley?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Microbial Communities, Methane Oxidation, Anaerobic, Gas Hydrates, Tomography, Hydrological Modeling, Seismic Noise and Surface Wave.
- Particle Physics
- Cosmic Rays
- Microwave Retrieval
- Spatial Variability
- Validation
- Religion
- Molecular Dynamics
- Seismic Electromagnetics
- Renewable Energy
- Globalization
- Neural Networks
- Ionosphere
- Solar Wind
- GRACE
- Sea Level Rise
- Surface Wave
- Hydrological Modeling
- Tomography
- Anaerobic
- Microbial Communities
- Climate Change
- Methane Oxidation
- Gas Hydrates
- Machine Learning
- Seismic Noise
- Deep Learning
- Geodetic Measurements
- groundwater depletion
- Electron Acceleration
- Magnetosphere
- Remote Sensing
- Sustainability
- Ionospheric Anomalies
- Data Assimilation
- Satellite Observations
- Cathode Materials
- Soil Moisture
- Global Monitoring
- Dark Matter
- Neutrinos
Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Climate Change1,671▲ 2.1×116 topics
- Microbial Communities1,272▲ 10×10 topics
- Methane Oxidation1,178▲ 52×2 topics
- Anaerobic1,175▲ 63×1 topic
- Gas Hydrates1,175▲ 63×1 topic
- Tomography1,103▲ 22×5 topics
- Machine Learning1,028◆ 1.07×94 topics
- Hydrological Modeling997▲ 14×5 topics
- Seismic Noise982▲ 71×1 topic
- Surface Wave982▲ 71×1 topic
- Deep Learning917◆ 0.92×84 topics
- Sea Level Rise774▲ 21×3 topics
- Geodetic Measurements766▲ 25×2 topics
- GRACE732▲ 53×1 topic
- groundwater depletion732▲ 53×1 topic
- Solar Wind630▲ 24×2 topics
- Electron Acceleration602▲ 31×2 topics
- Ionosphere570▲ 36×1 topic
- Magnetosphere570▲ 36×1 topic
- Neural Networks502◆ 1.12×40 topics
- Remote Sensing493▲ 1.40×37 topics
- Globalization485▼ 0.85×147 topics
- Sustainability479▼ 0.68×112 topics
- Renewable Energy389◆ 0.93×52 topics
- Ionospheric Anomalies365▲ 33×1 topic
- Seismic Electromagnetics365▲ 33×1 topic
- Data Assimilation262▲ 5.5×4 topics
- Molecular Dynamics258▲ 5.1×6 topics
- Satellite Observations257▲ 8.9×3 topics
- Religion249▲ 1.86×40 topics
- Cathode Materials238▲ 2.1×3 topics
- Validation216▲ 8.3×4 topics
- Soil Moisture214▲ 10×4 topics
- Spatial Variability213▲ 11×2 topics
- Global Monitoring207▲ 28×1 topic
- Microwave Retrieval207▲ 28×1 topic
- Dark Matter178▲ 5.3×4 topics
- Cosmic Rays151▲ 11×2 topics
- Neutrinos151▲ 11×2 topics
- Particle Physics134▲ 6.3×2 topics
What research is done in Berkeley?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 1.2k works
- 2 Seismic Waves and Analysis Geophysics 978 works
- 3 Geophysics and Gravity Measurements Oceanography 732 works
- 4 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 563 works
- 5 Earthquake Detection and Analysis Geophysics 363 works
- 6 Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing Environmental Engineering 206 works
- 7 Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena Nuclear and High Energy Physics 104 works
- 8 Advancements in Battery Materials Electrical and Electronic Engineering 98 works
- 9 Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 92 works
- 10 Machine Learning in Materials Science Materials Chemistry 89 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.
How much of it reaches the world top 10%
Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 40.2% in 2016.
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