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Barcelona Supercomputing Center

In research, Barcelona Supercomputing Center stands highest in Physical Sciences (#1,241 of 10,670 worldwide), Computer Science (#858 of 4,417 worldwide) and Engineering (#2,471 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Hardware and Architecture, Atmospheric Science and Computer Networks and Communications (Hardware and Architecture is 65.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#2,416
of 22,385 · #1,837 all time
Rank in Spain
#76
of 426
Research works
1.8k
▲ 12% vs 2018-21
Citations
38k
20.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.25×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
74%
world 40%
International
46%
world 18%
Barcelona Supercomputing Center

What is Barcelona Supercomputing Center known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #1,241 of 10,670 11.5%375 #1189
Computer ScienceField #858 of 4,417 10.1%193 #552
EngineeringField #2,471 of 5,901 10.8%73 #1931

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Barcelona Supercomputing Center sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Physical Sciences#1,189 #1,241
  2. Computer Science#552 #858
  3. Engineering#1,931 #2,471
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Barcelona Supercomputing Center work in?

In 2022-now, 74% of research at Barcelona Supercomputing Center is in Physical Sciences, 10% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (36%), Engineering (14%), Environmental Science (10%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 467 fractional works · 74.3% of its workComputer Science: 228 fractional works · 36.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 56 fractional works · 9.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 54 fractional works · 8.5% of its workHardware and Architecture: 46 fractional works · 7.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 28 fractional works · 4.5% of its workInformation Systems: 27 fractional works · 4.2% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSoftware: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 86 fractional works · 13.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 26 fractional works · 4.1% of its workComputational Mechanics: 18 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 10 fractional works · 1.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 64 fractional works · 10.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 34 fractional works · 5.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 10 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcological Modeling: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 52 fractional works · 8.2% of its workAtmospheric Science: 32 fractional works · 5.1% of its workOceanography: 8 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeophysics: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 20 fractional works · 3.1% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 8 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workModeling and Simulation: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNumerical Analysis: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 61 fractional works · 9.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 23 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 8 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 21 fractional works · 3.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 15 fractional works · 2.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLife Sciences: 54 fractional works · 8.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 41 fractional works · 6.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 31 fractional works · 4.9% of its workGenetics: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCancer Research: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPlant Science: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 46 fractional works · 7.3% of its workMedicine: 41 fractional works · 6.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 8 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInfectious Diseases: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEpidemiology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Informatics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKBarcelonaSupercomputing…628fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences74%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences10%

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 institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science22836.3%
    2. Engineering8613.7%
    3. Environmental Science6410.1%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences528.2%
    5. Physics and Astronomy203.1%
    6. Materials Science81.3%
    7. Mathematics60.9%
    8. Chemical Engineering30.5%
    9. Chemistry10.2%
    10. Energy00.0%
    1. Social Sciences233.6%
    2. Decision Sciences213.3%
    3. Psychology50.8%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance50.8%
    5. Arts and Humanities40.7%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting40.6%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology416.5%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences71.2%
    3. Neuroscience30.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology20.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Medicine416.5%
    2. Health Professions40.6%
    3. Dentistry00.1%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
    5. Nursing00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Barcelona Supercomputing Center specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Hardware and Architecture takes 65.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 46.4 works66×
  2. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 32.1 works12×
  3. Computer Networks and CommunicationsSubfield · 56.4 works10×
  4. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 34.0 works7.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.25× its world share, 8 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.22× its world share, 41 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.36× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.33× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.30× its world share, 3 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 4.67× its world share, 228 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5.25× its world share, 52 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.91× its world share, 86 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.03× its world share, 64 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.36× its world share, 8 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.80× its world share, 6 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.40× its world share, 20 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.23× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.34× its world share, 41 worksMedicineNursing: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.23× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.17× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.38× its world share, 20 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.36× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.26× its world share, 5 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.29× its world share, 23 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 5.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences5.25×52 works
  2. Computer Science4.67×228 works
  3. Decision Sciences3.38×20 works
  4. Environmental Science2.03×64 works
  5. Physics and Astronomy1.40×20 works
  6. Chemical Engineering1.30×3 works
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.22×41 works
  8. Engineering0.91×86 works
  9. Mathematics0.80×6 works
  10. Veterinary0.39×0 works
  11. Immunology and Microbiology0.36×2 works
  12. Materials Science0.36×8 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.36×5 works
  14. Medicine0.34×41 works
  15. Neuroscience0.33×3 works
  16. Social Sciences0.29×23 works
  17. Psychology0.26×5 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.25×8 works
  19. Health Professions0.23×4 works
  20. Arts and Humanities0.23×4 works
  21. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.20×0 works
  22. Business, Management and Accounting0.17×4 works
  23. Chemistry0.15×2 works
  24. Dentistry0.13×0 works
  25. Nursing0.09×0 works
  26. Energy0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Barcelona Supercomputing Center?

Ranked on the quality score, Carlos Pérez García‐Pando, Marc Guevara and Miguel Castrillo lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

  1. 1 Carlos Pérez García‐Pando Spain · #84,797 worldwide 10k citations · 494 works
  2. 2 Marc Guevara Spain · #301,494 worldwide 2.9k citations · 207 works
  3. 3 Miguel Castrillo Spain · #369,284 worldwide 1.7k citations · 74 works
  4. 4 José M. Fernández Spain · #397,982 worldwide 4.6k citations · 149 works
  5. 5 Fernando Cucchietti Spain · #454,302 worldwide 3.1k citations · 91 works
  6. 6 Antonio J. Peña Spain · #497,276 worldwide 1.5k citations · 90 works
  7. 7 Alba Cervera-Lierta Spain · #558,653 worldwide 2.8k citations · 40 works
  8. 8 Daniel Gallart Spain · #920,352 worldwide 1.6k citations · 63 works
  9. 9 Hadrien Calmet Spain · #1,001,822 worldwide 955 citations · 46 works
  10. 10 Kim Serradell Spain · #1,232,679 worldwide 837 citations · 44 works
All ranked researchers at Barcelona Supercomputing Center

What are the most cited papers from Barcelona Supercomputing Center?

The most cited paper from Barcelona Supercomputing Center is "Gaia Data Release 2" (A. G. A. Brown et al., 2018), with 8,734 citations. Next come "Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome" (7,806) and "The Gaia mission" (7,118).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Gaia Data Release 2 A. G. A. Brown et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics Open access453 authors 24 Apr 2018 8,734
2 Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome Manimozhiyan Arumugam et al. · Nature Open access 19 Apr 2011 7,806
3 The Gaia mission T. Prusti et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics Open access625 authors 15 Sep 2016 7,118
4 The Immune Landscape of Cancer Vésteinn Thórsson et al. · Immunity Open access784 authors Apr 2018 6,328
5 Gaia Early Data Release 3 A. G. A. Brown et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics Open access425 authors 3 Dec 2020 3,978
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Barcelona Supercomputing Center?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: High-Performance Computing, Distributed Systems, Parallel Computing, Resource Management, Climate Change, Workflow Management, Deep Learning and Global Warming.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution'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
  1. Deep Learning54▲ 2.5×65 topics
  2. Climate Change52▲ 3.1×62 topics
  3. High-Performance Computing48▲ 94×2 topics
  4. Machine Learning45▲ 2.1×60 topics
  5. Distributed Systems42▲ 39×6 topics
  6. Parallel Computing42▲ 57×4 topics
  7. Resource Management35▲ 33×5 topics
  8. Workflow Management33▲ 72×2 topics
  9. Global Warming30▲ 11×13 topics
  10. GPU Computing29▲ 118×1 topic
  11. Multicore Architectures29▲ 118×1 topic
  12. Performance Optimization29▲ 73×2 topics
  13. Neural Networks28▲ 2.9×31 topics
  14. Big Data27▲ 4.5×18 topics
  15. Energy Efficiency23▲ 3.9×13 topics
  16. Ocean Circulation21▲ 24×3 topics
  17. Grid Computing20▲ 96×1 topic
  18. Task Scheduling20▲ 96×1 topic
  19. Hydrological Cycle18▲ 29×2 topics
  20. Greenhouse Gas Emissions17▲ 10×6 topics
  21. Cloud Computing17▲ 9.7×6 topics
  22. Extreme Events17▲ 29×2 topics
  23. Virtualization17▲ 32×3 topics
  24. Bioinformatics16▲ 22×4 topics
  25. Climate Modeling16▲ 34×1 topic
  26. Precipitation Extremes16▲ 34×1 topic
  27. Data Assimilation16▲ 15×4 topics
  28. Air Quality15▲ 12×6 topics
  29. Data Centers15▲ 40×1 topic
  30. MapReduce15▲ 40×1 topic
  31. Fault Tolerance15▲ 15×6 topics
  32. Embedded Systems14▲ 50×4 topics
  33. Boundary Layer14▲ 18×2 topics
  34. Ontologies14▲ 39×2 topics
  35. Semantic Web Services14▲ 40×2 topics
  36. Software Development13▲ 40×2 topics
  37. Reproducibility13▲ 53×1 topic
  38. Scientific Workflows13▲ 53×1 topic
  39. Probabilistic Forecasting12▲ 10×3 topics
  40. Ensemble Kalman Filter12▲ 18×2 topics

Which research topics does Barcelona Supercomputing Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems, Climate variability and models and Cloud Computing and Resource Management.

Parallel Computing and O…29Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques: 29 fractional worksDistributed and Parallel Computing Systems: 20 fractional worksClimate variability and …16Climate variability and models: 16 fractional worksCloud Computing and Reso…15Cloud Computing and Resource Management: 15 fractional worksScientific Computing and Data Management: 13 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 12 fractional worksAdvanced Data Storage Te…12Advanced Data Storage Technologies: 12 fractional worksEmbedded Systems Design Techniques: 9 fractional worksAtmospheric chemistry and aerosols: 8 fractional worksIoT and Edge/Fog Computing: 7 fractional works
Hardware and ArchitectureComputer Networks and CommunicationsGlobal and Planetary ChangeInformation Systems2 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques Hardware and Architecture 29 works
  2. 2 Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems Computer Networks and Communications 20 works
  3. 3 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 16 works
  4. 4 Cloud Computing and Resource Management Information Systems 15 works
  5. 5 Scientific Computing and Data Management Information Systems and Management 13 works
  6. 6 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 12 works
  7. 7 Advanced Data Storage Technologies Computer Networks and Communications 12 works
  8. 8 Embedded Systems Design Techniques Hardware and Architecture 9 works
  9. 9 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Science 8 works
  10. 10 IoT and Edge/Fog Computing Computer Networks and Communications 7 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available73.8%not open26.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors46.0%domestic only54.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Barcelona Supercomputing Center's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Barcelona Supercomputing Center as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0020% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Barcelona Supercomputing Center0.0028% in 2025200020102020

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

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%30%Barcelona Supercomputing Center11.6% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 24.0% in 2007.

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