Question 1

What is Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory stands highest in Physical Sciences (#85 of 10,670 worldwide), Earth and Planetary Sciences (#12 of 1,088 worldwide) and Physics and Astronomy (#24 of 1,417 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Structural Biology, Environmental Chemistry and Nuclear and High Energy Physics (Structural Biology is 39.1× its share of world research).

Question 2

How does Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ranks #209 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#94 all time), and #59 of 3,332 in the United States.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, J. Borrill, Uroš Seljak and Tianzhen Hong lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is "Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis" (Johannes Schindelin, Ignacio Arganda‐Carreras, Erwin Frise et al., 2012), with 73,171 citations. Next come "SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python" (40,161) and "PHENIX : a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution" (24,924).

Question 5

Which research topics does Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Seismic Waves and Analysis, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Microbial Communities, Hydrological Modeling, Methane Oxidation, Anaerobic, Gas Hydrates, Tomography, Data Assimilation and Satellite Observations.

Question 7

Which fields of science does Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 85% of research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is in Physical Sciences, 9% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (21%), Physics and Astronomy (16%), Environmental Science (16%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Question 8

Which institutions have research most like Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's?

Accepted Answer

Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres has the research profile closest to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's (similarity 0.96 on a scale to 1), with both strong in Physics and Astronomy, followed by Argonne National Laboratory and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

Question 9

Is Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021.