---
title: "University of California, Berkeley: research profile"
description: "Research profile of University of California, Berkeley: 1,313 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 2,030."
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share_text: "Research profile of University of California, Berkeley: 1,313 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and operations research; h-index 2,030. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03
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---

# University of California, Berkeley

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- country: United States
- web domain: berkeley.edu

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions.md

## 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 66 | 65 | 55 | 68 | 65 | 48 | 53 | 56 | 58 | 50 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 30 | 30 | 34 | 22 | 46 | 21 | 22 | 19 | 25 | 13 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 7 | 14 | 14 | 24 | 25 | 20 | 15 | 13 | 35 | 17 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 15 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 6 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 9 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 22 |
| 2 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 16 |
| 3 | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 15 |
| 4 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 15 |
| 5 | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | 15 |
| 6 | [Journal of Econometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-econometrics.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [Mathematical Programming](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 11 |
| 10 | [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-environmental-economics-and-management.md) | 10 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | 16 |
| 2 | [National Bureau of Economic Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-bureau-of-economic-research.md) | 16 |
| 3 | [Harvard University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harvard-university.md) | 14 |
| 4 | [University of Chicago](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chicago.md) | 14 |
| 5 | [University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-hong-kong.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [University of Southern California](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-southern-california.md) | 13 |
| 7 | [National University of Singapore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-singapore.md) | 12 |
| 8 | [Stanford University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/stanford-university.md) | 12 |
| 9 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 12 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 19 |
| 2 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 14 |
| 3 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 11 |
| 4 | inflation expectations | 8 |
| 5 | [generative AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/generative-ai.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [transaction costs](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/transaction-costs.md) | 6 |
| 7 | [cross-national comparison](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cross-national-comparison.md) | 5 |
| 8 | early childhood development | 5 |
| 9 | [electric vehicles](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/electric-vehicles.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 5 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,531 | 63.2 | [OpenPose: Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation Using Part Affinity Fields](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2019.2929257) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2019-07-17 | Zhe Cao, Gines Hidalgo, Tomas Simon et al. |
| 2 | 3,688 | 33.1 | [Business models and dynamic capabilities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2017.06.007) | [Long Range Planning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/long-range-planning.md) | 2017-07-23 | David J. Teece |
| 3 | 2,052 | 22.1 | [Algorithm appreciation: People prefer algorithmic to human judgment](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2018.12.005) | [Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/organizational-behavior-and-human-decision-processes.md) | 2019-02-05 | Jennifer Marie Logg, Julia Alexandra Minson, Don A. Moore |
| 4 | 1,784 | 17.4 | [Profiting from innovation in the digital economy: Enabling technologies, standards, and licensing models in the wireless world](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2017.01.015) | [Research Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-policy.md) | 2018-04-21 | David J. Teece |
| 5 | 1,481 | 18.0 | [Corporate Immunity to the COVID-19 Pandemic](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2021.03.005) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2020-01-01 | Wenzhi Ding, Ross Eric Levine, Chen Lin et al. |
| 6 | 1,463 | 41.4 | [Artificial intelligence, firm growth, and product innovation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2023.103745) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2023-11-23 | Tania Babina, Anastassia Fedyk, Alex Xi He et al. |
| 7 | 995 | 13.0 | [Theories of Risk Perception: Who Fears What and Why?](https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429284243-5) | [Risk Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/risk-management.md) | 2020-06-18 | Aaron Wíldavsky, Karl Dake |
| 8 | 946 | 25.1 | [CHGNet as a pretrained universal neural network potential for charge-informed atomistic modelling](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-023-00716-3) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2023-09-14 | Bowen Deng, Peichen Zhong, KyuJung Jun et al. |
| 9 | 728 | 9.6 | [Impact investing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2020.07.008) | [Journal of Financial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-financial-economics.md) | 2020-07-17 | Brad M. Barber, Adair Morse, Ayako Yasuda |
| 10 | 681 | 7.0 | [Transferable Representation Learning with Deep Adaptation Networks](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2868685) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2018-09-05 | Mingsheng Long, Yue Cao, Zhangjie Cao et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*University of California, Berkeley 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](https://openalex.org/I2803209242) |
| 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](https://www.berkeley.edu) |
| ROR | [ror.org/01an7q238](https://ror.org/01an7q238) |
| Wikidata | [Q168756](Q168756) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I95457486](https://openalex.org/I95457486) |

*Works and citations per year in OpenAlex, and its papers in the tracked journals*

| 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% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | 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 |

From OpenAlex's own record of the institution (CC0), read again monthly. Works and citations count everything OpenAlex indexes, not only the tracked journals; topics are OpenAlex's classification of those works.

*Papers, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | [The dollar at a crossroads](https://doi.org/10.1057/s11369-026-00468-z) | [Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/business-economics.md) | Barry J. Eichengreen | University of California, Berkeley |
| 2026-10-17 | [Training, assessing, and matching students in technology-mediated peer learning environments](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2026.101691) | [Studies In Educational Evaluation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/studies-in-educational-evaluation.md) | Soren Rosier, Ojas Karnavat | Stanford University; University of California, Berkeley |
| 2026-10-14 | [Rethinking support for early motherhood: a multi-level ecological analysis of mothers’ experiences in Urban China](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-026-03049-w) | [International Journal for Equity in Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-for-equity-in-health.md) | Qi Jiang, Yuyin Xiao, Jiaqi Shi et al. | University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; … |
| 2026-10-09 | [Stable matchings under relaxed random preferences](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00182-026-01016-x) | [International Journal of Game Theory](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-game-theory.md) | Boris G. Pittel, Kirill Rudov | The Ohio State University; University of California, Berkeley |
| 2026-10-05 | [Devour the future: Locust plagues and educational disruption in Ethiopia](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2026.103434) | [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-environmental-economics-and-management.md) | Jiale Yan | University of California, Berkeley |

## 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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  title = {University of California, Berkeley},
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  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).