University of California, Berkeley
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Key findings#
- University of California, Berkeley was involved in 5 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #377 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Business Economics (1), Studies In Educational Evaluation (1) and International Journal for Equity in Health (1).
- Countries: United States (5) and China (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at University of California, Berkeley took part in 1,313 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (584), operations research (262) and AI (184).
- 148 of them were published in 2025, against 137 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (16), National Bureau of Economic Research (16) and Harvard University (14).
- The journals publishing most of them were Nature Machine Intelligence (22), Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (16) and Journal of Public Economics (15).
- The most-cited of them is “OpenPose: Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation Using Part Affinity Fields” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2019), with 5,531 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, University of California, Berkeley has 488,772 works with 64,126,918 citations (h-index 2,030).
- The tracked journals hold 1,210 of its 137,578 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.9%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (11,877), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (10,034) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (8,854).
- OpenAlex lists it under University of California System.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 66 | 65 | 55 | 68 | 65 | 48 | 53 | 56 | 58 | 50 |
| Operations Research | 30 | 30 | 34 | 22 | 46 | 21 | 22 | 19 | 25 | 13 |
| AI | 7 | 14 | 14 | 24 | 25 | 20 | 15 | 13 | 35 | 17 |
| Finance | 15 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 6 |
| Management | 9 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
| Statistics | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Accounting | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 137 | 131 | 124 | 143 | 172 | 119 | 121 | 115 | 148 | 103 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nature Machine Intelligence | 22 |
| 2 | Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies | 16 |
| 3 | Journal of Public Economics | 15 |
| 4 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 15 |
| 5 | Journal of Development Economics | 15 |
| 6 | Journal of Econometrics | 14 |
| 7 | Mathematical Programming | 12 |
| 8 | Journal of Financial Economics | 12 |
| 9 | Energy Economics | 11 |
| 10 | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 10 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | 16 |
| 2 | National Bureau of Economic Research | 16 |
| 3 | Harvard University | 14 |
| 4 | University of Chicago | 14 |
| 5 | University of Hong Kong | 14 |
| 6 | University of Southern California | 13 |
| 7 | National University of Singapore | 12 |
| 8 | Stanford University | 12 |
| 9 | Tsinghua University | 12 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 487 |
| 2 | China | 81 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 50 |
| 4 | Germany | 30 |
| 5 | Canada | 26 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 25 |
| 7 | Italy | 20 |
| 8 | France | 18 |
| 9 | Singapore | 15 |
| 10 | South Korea | 14 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COVID-19 pandemic | 19 |
| 2 | China | 14 |
| 3 | large language models | 11 |
| 4 | inflation expectations | 8 |
| 5 | generative AI | 7 |
| 6 | transaction costs | 6 |
| 7 | cross-national comparison | 5 |
| 8 | early childhood development | 5 |
| 9 | electric vehicles | 5 |
| 10 | graph neural networks | 5 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Berkeley, California, United States |
| Also known as | UCB, Cal Berkeley, UC Berkeley, Universidad de California en Berkeley |
| Part of | University of California System |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 14 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 488,772 |
| Citations | 64,126,918 |
| h-index | 2,030 |
| i10-index | 543,795 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.05 |
| Website | www.berkeley.edu |
| ROR | ror.org/01an7q238 |
| Wikidata | Q168756 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I95457486 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies | Physics and Astronomy | 11,877 |
| 2 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 10,034 |
| 3 | Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena | Physics and Astronomy | 8,854 |
| 4 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 8,361 |
| 5 | Nuclear physics research studies | Physics and Astronomy | 6,658 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 51,570 | 1,087,419 | 103 | 0.2% |
| 2025 | 14,308 | 1,480,691 | 148 | 1.0% |
| 2024 | 16,263 | 1,504,614 | 115 | 0.7% |
| 2023 | 21,064 | 1,458,643 | 121 | 0.6% |
| 2022 | 17,444 | 1,437,128 | 119 | 0.7% |
| 2021 | 15,372 | 1,526,034 | 172 | 1.1% |
| 2020 | 14,154 | 1,401,993 | 143 | 1.0% |
| 2019 | 13,604 | 1,249,828 | 124 | 0.9% |
| 2018 | 13,146 | 1,130,799 | 131 | 1.0% |
| 2017 | 12,223 | 1,039,257 | 137 | 1.1% |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). University of California, Berkeley. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-california-berkeley
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year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-03},
note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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