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Berkeley College vs Scuola Normale Superiore

On research quality in 2022-now, Scuola Normale Superiore ranks #962 in the world and Berkeley College #963, of 22,385 institutions. Berkeley College stands higher in 4 of the 8 fields both publish in, Scuola Normale Superiore in 4.

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Berkeley College

United States · New York

World rank, 2022-now
#963
#503 all time
Works, 2022-now
1.2k
fractional
Top-10% rate
13.3%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
54%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Fuel Technology, General Psychology, Computational Mathematics.

Scuola Normale Superiore

Italy · Pisa

World rank, 2022-now
#962
#1,373 all time
Works, 2022-now
1.4k
fractional
Top-10% rate
14.8%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
53%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: General Arts and Humanities, Industrial relations, Instrumentation.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Scuola Normale Superiore leads on 6 of 8 measures: research quality, citation excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, international co-authorship and growth. Berkeley College leads on 1 of 8 measures: citations per work. The two are level on open access.

Berkeley College 11 level6 Scuola Normale Superiore
  1. #963Research qualityworld rank of 22,385 institutions, 2022-now#962
  2. 0.98×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected1.46×
  3. 1.2kOutputfractional works, 2022-now1.4k
  4. 13.3%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited14.8%
  5. 34.4Citations per workall time, per fractional work24.2
  6. 54%Open accessof its works free to read, all time53%
  7. 18%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time28%
  8. +12%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+22%

A rank is drawn as its standing: the longer the bar, the nearer the top. Anything else is drawn against the larger of the two, and two values a hair apart are called level. Quality, citation excellence and the top-10% rate are explained in the methodology.

Who leads in each field?

Berkeley College stands higher in 4 of 8 fields, Scuola Normale Superiore in 4. Berkeley College leads most in Computer Science (#220 against #1,250); Scuola Normale Superiore leads most in Social Sciences (#620 against #937). Each bar is that side's standing among all institutions ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Berkeley College 44 Scuola Normale Superiore
  1. -Arts and Humanities#467
  2. #220Computer Science#1,250
  3. #1,226Engineering#2,191
  4. #1,027Environmental Science-
  5. -Mathematics#115
  6. #2,107Medicine-
  7. -Physics and Astronomy#178
  8. #937Social Sciences#620

Standing is the percentile of world rank within each field, 2022-now; the printed number is the rank itself. A dash means the field is too small there to rank. How sides are compared.

The numbers behind each field

Click a heading to sort. The side that does better in a pair of columns is shaded: a lower rank, a higher rate, more works.

Field Berkeley College rankScuola Normale Superiore rank Berkeley College top 10%Scuola Normale Superiore top 10% Berkeley College worksScuola Normale Superiore works
Arts and Humanities - #467 - 5.9% - 171
Computer Science #220 #1,250 23.8% 12.3% 220 109
Engineering #1,226 #2,191 9.2% 11.5% 155 65
Environmental Science #1,027 - 7.5% - 61 -
Mathematics - #115 - 18.8% - 102
Medicine #2,107 - 9.3% - 67 -
Physics and Astronomy - #178 - 21.3% - 179
Social Sciences #937 #620 9.6% 20.7% 162 290

Where does each put its research?

Not who is better, but what each side chooses to work on. A country or institution that puts twice the world's share of its research into a field sits at 2×, whatever its size.

  1. Energy0.8× 0.1×
  2. Immunology and Microbiology0.3× 0.0×
  3. Dentistry0.1× 0.0×
  4. Environmental Science1.1× 0.2×
  5. Medicine0.3× 0.1×
  6. Nursing0.2× 0.1×
  7. Engineering0.9× 0.3×
  8. Computer Science2.7× 1.1×
  9. Health Professions0.5× 0.2×
  10. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.3× 0.1×
  11. Business, Management and Accounting0.8× 0.4×
  12. Psychology1.0× 0.5×
  13. Neuroscience1.5× 0.8×
  14. Decision Sciences1.4× 0.8×
  15. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.9× 0.6×
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.7× 0.5×
  17. Materials Science0.8× 0.7×
  18. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.8× 1.9×
  19. Chemical Engineering1.0× 1.1×
  20. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.3× 0.3×
  21. Social Sciences1.2× 1.9×
  22. Arts and Humanities1.6× 4.8×
  23. Chemistry0.7× 2.6×
  24. Mathematics1.9× 7.2×
  25. Physics and Astronomy1.8× 7.0×
Berkeley CollegeScuola Normale Superiore

Location quotient in 2022-now: the share of each side's research in the field over the world's share. 1× is the world's balance; the axis runs from a quarter of it to four times. Fields where Berkeley College leans further are at the top, Scuola Normale Superiore's at the bottom. How research profiles are compared.

What is each known for?

The keywords that describe each side's research, by fractional works in 2022-now and weighted toward what it does more of than the world.

Berkeley College

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Deep Learning85▲ 2.1×64 topics
  2. Machine Learning60▲ 1.51×64 topics
  3. Neural Networks54▲ 3.0×36 topics
  4. Climate Change37▲ 1.16×68 topics
  5. Globalization36▲ 1.54×78 topics
  6. Sustainability29◆ 1.00×49 topics
  7. Big Data21▲ 1.82×19 topics
  8. Artificial Intelligence19◆ 1.13×33 topics
  9. Identity19▲ 2.2×40 topics
  10. Conservation19▲ 3.6×16 topics
  11. History17▲ 2.1×26 topics
  12. Economic Growth17▲ 1.76×22 topics
  13. Ethics16▲ 2.7×26 topics
  14. Unsupervised Learning15▲ 8.1×3 topics
  15. Gender14▲ 2.2×29 topics
  16. Literature13▲ 1.99×26 topics
  17. Nationalism12▲ 2.2×17 topics
  18. Corpus Linguistics11▲ 4.5×4 topics
  19. Representation Learning11▲ 5.8×3 topics
  20. Information Retrieval10▲ 4.0×4 topics
  21. Machine Translation10▲ 5.3×2 topics
  22. Topic Modeling10▲ 5.8×2 topics
  23. Surveillance10▲ 3.1×6 topics
  24. Convolutional Networks10▲ 6.2×3 topics
  25. Distributed Systems10▲ 4.8×6 topics
  26. Neural Machine Translation10▲ 8.9×1 topic
  27. Statistical Machine Translation10▲ 8.9×1 topic
  28. Text Classification10▲ 5.0×3 topics
  29. Deep Neural Networks10▲ 6.6×3 topics
  30. Semantic Similarity9▲ 6.2×1 topic
  31. Word Representation9▲ 6.2×1 topic
  32. Emotion9▲ 3.7×12 topics
  33. Approximation Algorithms8▲ 9.6×5 topics
  34. Environmental Movement8▲ 89×1 topic
  35. Industrial Agriculture8▲ 89×1 topic
  36. Semi-Supervised Learning8▲ 5.5×3 topics
  37. Homomorphic Encryption8▲ 14×1 topic
  38. Identity-Based Encryption8▲ 14×1 topic
  39. Public Opinion8▲ 5.5×6 topics
  40. Image Captioning7▲ 10×1 topic

Scuola Normale Superiore

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization96▲ 3.6×73 topics
  2. Nationalism56▲ 9.2×19 topics
  3. Identity46▲ 4.7×29 topics
  4. Gender45▲ 6.1×26 topics
  5. Religion44▲ 7.0×27 topics
  6. Social Media41▲ 2.2×19 topics
  7. Literature36▲ 4.8×28 topics
  8. Black Holes30▲ 23×3 topics
  9. Colonialism30▲ 4.7×20 topics
  10. Late Antiquity30▲ 43×3 topics
  11. Dark Matter27▲ 17×4 topics
  12. Cultural Exchange25▲ 14×8 topics
  13. Molecular Dynamics24▲ 10×6 topics
  14. Hydrogen Bonding24▲ 21×4 topics
  15. Star Formation24▲ 31×2 topics
  16. Density Functional Theory24▲ 17×4 topics
  17. Neoliberalism24▲ 4.9×17 topics
  18. Memory23▲ 6.9×9 topics
  19. Ancient Rome22▲ 50×1 topic
  20. Greek Literature22▲ 50×1 topic
  21. Propaganda22▲ 31×3 topics
  22. Latin America21▲ 8.2×6 topics
  23. Cosmology21▲ 23×3 topics
  24. Italy21▲ 62×2 topics
  25. Archaeology20▲ 12×7 topics
  26. Europe20▲ 25×2 topics
  27. Political Communication20▲ 26×2 topics
  28. Entanglement20▲ 9.6×4 topics
  29. Fascism19▲ 71×1 topic
  30. Totalitarianism19▲ 56×1 topic
  31. Vibrational Spectroscopy19▲ 18×2 topics
  32. Electronic Structure Calculations19▲ 21×2 topics
  33. Global Governance18▲ 5.7×13 topics
  34. Populism18▲ 60×1 topic
  35. Right-Wing18▲ 60×1 topic
  36. Photosynthesis18▲ 28×1 topic
  37. Quantum Coherence18▲ 42×1 topic
  38. Historiography17▲ 10×9 topics
  39. Galaxies17▲ 43×1 topic
  40. Stellar Populations17▲ 43×1 topic

Size is fractional works in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of the side's work against its share of the world's. Each word links to the topic it comes from most.

How has their output grown?

Scuola Normale Superiore has out-published Berkeley College every year since 2024, when it overtook it.

still counting200400600Scuola Normale Superiore304 in 2025Berkeley College235 in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works per year.

Their share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share, because all of science grows. Each line is a side as a percentage of every work published that year.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Scuola Normale Superiore0.0052% in 2025Berkeley College0.0040% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

The share of each side's works, year by year, that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. The average of all institutions is 10.0% (why not 10%).

still counting10%20%30%Scuola Normale Superiore15.5% in 2025Berkeley College15.1% in 2025200020102020

A year with under 1% of the side's peak output is left out: a rate over a handful of papers says nothing. The latest years are still being cited.

Which publishes more research, Berkeley College or Scuola Normale Superiore?

Scuola Normale Superiore publishes 1.1× as much research as Berkeley College in 2022-now (1.4k against 1.2k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Berkeley College or Scuola Normale Superiore?

14.8% of Scuola Normale Superiore's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 13.3% for Berkeley College.

Is Berkeley College or Scuola Normale Superiore growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +22% against 2018-21 for Scuola Normale Superiore, and +12% for Berkeley College.

Which has more open access research, Berkeley College or Scuola Normale Superiore?

54% of Berkeley College's research is free to read, against 53% of Scuola Normale Superiore's.

Who are the top researchers on each side?

The most cited researchers on each side, among those ranked.

Berkeley College

  1. 1 Klaus Corcilius #490,137 worldwide 840 citations · 77 works
  2. 2 Chris Harrelson #737,854 worldwide 1.2k citations · 37 works
  3. 3 Joseph Le Conte #976,918 worldwide 284 citations · 174 works
  4. 4 Heidi Hoefinger #1,300,720 worldwide 453 citations · 28 works
  5. 5 Gilbert Newton Lewis #1,310,496 worldwide 11k citations · 332 works

Scuola Normale Superiore

  1. 1 Stefano Carniani #211 worldwide 17k citations · 427 works
  2. 2 Eleonora Parlanti #6,852 worldwide 3.3k citations · 105 works
  3. 3 A. Pallottini #11,315 worldwide 6.5k citations · 200 works
  4. 4 Laura Sommovigo #37,123 worldwide 2.3k citations · 119 works
  5. 5 Andrea L. P. Pirro #42,118 worldwide 3.1k citations · 61 works