Research in Berkeley
Science Explorer records 126 research institutions in Berkeley, United States. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute.
- Research institutions
- 126 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 277k ▼ 4% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 22.0% record average 16.5%
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Which research institutions are in Berkeley?
By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. 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.
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.
Which keywords describe research in Berkeley?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, 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
- Dark Matter
- Global Monitoring
- Spatial Variability
- Cathode Materials
- Religion
- Data Assimilation
- Seismic Electromagnetics
- Neural Networks
- Remote Sensing
- Ionosphere
- Solar Wind
- GRACE
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning
- Seismic Noise
- Tomography
- Anaerobic
- Microbial Communities
- Climate Change
- Methane Oxidation
- Gas Hydrates
- Hydrological Modeling
- Surface Wave
- Sea Level Rise
- Geodetic Measurements
- groundwater depletion
- Electron Acceleration
- Magnetosphere
- Globalization
- Ionospheric Anomalies
- Renewable Energy
- Satellite Observations
- Molecular Dynamics
- Validation
- Soil Moisture
- Microwave Retrieval
- Entanglement
- Neutrinos
Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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 Change1,569▲ 2.2×116 topics
- Microbial Communities1,254▲ 11×10 topics
- Methane Oxidation1,175▲ 55×2 topics
- Anaerobic1,173▲ 65×1 topic
- Gas Hydrates1,173▲ 65×1 topic
- Tomography1,088▲ 23×5 topics
- Hydrological Modeling988▲ 16×5 topics
- Seismic Noise978▲ 78×1 topic
- Surface Wave978▲ 78×1 topic
- Machine Learning862◆ 1.01×91 topics
- Sea Level Rise768▲ 23×3 topics
- Deep Learning767▼ 0.86×83 topics
- Geodetic Measurements761▲ 27×2 topics
- GRACE732▲ 54×1 topic
- groundwater depletion732▲ 54×1 topic
- Solar Wind617▲ 25×2 topics
- Electron Acceleration591▲ 34×2 topics
- Ionosphere563▲ 39×1 topic
- Magnetosphere563▲ 39×1 topic
- Remote Sensing456▲ 1.42×37 topics
- Globalization434▼ 0.85×141 topics
- Neural Networks423◆ 1.05×39 topics
- Ionospheric Anomalies363▲ 36×1 topic
- Seismic Electromagnetics363▲ 36×1 topic
- Renewable Energy350◆ 0.93×51 topics
- Data Assimilation254▲ 6.2×4 topics
- Satellite Observations250▲ 9.9×3 topics
- Religion232▲ 1.87×40 topics
- Molecular Dynamics228▲ 5.3×6 topics
- Cathode Materials224▲ 2.2×3 topics
- Validation214▲ 9.2×4 topics
- Spatial Variability211▲ 13×2 topics
- Soil Moisture211▲ 11×4 topics
- Global Monitoring206▲ 34×1 topic
- Microwave Retrieval206▲ 34×1 topic
- Dark Matter168▲ 5.6×4 topics
- Entanglement150▲ 3.8×4 topics
- Cosmic Rays147▲ 11×2 topics
- Neutrinos147▲ 11×2 topics
- Particle Physics128▲ 6.5×2 topics
What research is done in Berkeley?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Methane Hydrates and Related PhenomenaEnvironmental Chemistry 1.2k works
- 2 Seismic Waves and AnalysisGeophysics 978 works
- 3 Geophysics and Gravity MeasurementsOceanography 732 works
- 4 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamicsAstronomy and Astrophysics 563 works
- 5 Earthquake Detection and AnalysisGeophysics 363 works
- 6 Soil Moisture and Remote SensingEnvironmental Engineering 206 works
- 7 Astrophysics and Cosmic PhenomenaNuclear and High Energy Physics 104 works
- 8 Advancements in Battery MaterialsElectrical and Electronic Engineering 98 works
- 9 Advanced Battery Materials and TechnologiesElectrical and Electronic Engineering 92 works
- 10 Machine Learning in Materials ScienceMaterials Chemistry 89 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.