University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
United States of America (USA)
Time frame: 1 June 2025 - 30 May 2026Profile
The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 178 applied, health, natural and social sciences journals, across many different publishers, chosen by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides absolute Count of primary research articles and fractional Share counts of author contribution to articles. The positions in the table below reflect University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley)'s position overall, domestically, within their sector, and in various subject areas based on their Share. Each position links to the corresponding table where University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) is listed.
Position by research output Share
Position by research output Share in subject areas
Research
University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) has the following research output in the current window (1 June 2025 - 30 May 2026) of the Nature Index. Click on Count to view a list of articles representing the corresponding Share value.
Overall research output
Research outputs by subject area
Leading research topics
In the Current Index (12-month rolling window), University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) published the most articles in these research topics. Learn more about Nature Research Intelligence Topics.
| Topics | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Astronomical Sciences | 294 | 27.18 |
| Organic Chemistry | 37 | 22.87 |
| Particle and High Energy Physics | 111 | 21.71 |
| Biochemistry and Cell Biology | 46 | 20.86 |
| Physical Chemistry | 52 | 20.83 |
| Quantum Physics | 63 | 18.25 |
| Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry | 69 | 16.69 |
Share output for the past 5 years
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Collaboration
Nature Index collaborations highlight fruitful collaborations that lead to high quality research around the world. A collaboration can be between any two institutions or locations co-authoring at least one article in the journals tracked by the Nature Index. The collaboration score between two institutions is the sum of each of their Shares on the papers to which both have contributed. The table and charts below highlight the leading collaborators with University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley).
Top 5 domestic collaborators with University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) by Share
Collaborating institutions
Note: Hover over the bars to view details about each institution's Share.
| Collaborating Institution | Collaborators' Share | Collaboration Score |
|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) | 127.78 / 102.95 | 230.73 |
| University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) | 33.61 / 37.74 | 71.35 |
| Stanford University | 24.82 / 28.57 | 53.39 |
| Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at Berkeley | 31.29 / 4.69 | 35.98 |
| California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) | 27.60 / 7.22 | 34.82 |
Top 5 international collaborators with University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) by Share
Collaborating institutions
Note: Hover over the bars to view details about each institution's Share.
| Collaborating Institution | Collaborators' Share | Total Share |
|---|---|---|
| Tsinghua University | 8.66 / 18.08 | 26.73 |
| Max Planck Society | 10.19 / 10.17 | 20.36 |
| French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) | 11.07 / 7.52 | 18.60 |
| Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI) | 4.54 / 8.87 | 13.41 |
| The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) | 5.35 / 4.07 | 9.41 |
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Relationships
Affiliated institutions
The following affiliated institutions are wholly owned, operated, administered or contains research facilities for University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). All affiliations for an affiliated institution are credited to the institution to which it is affiliated. Each of the affiliated institutions listed below has its own research profile.
Affiliated joint institutions and consortia
Represents joint institutions and consortia for which the institution is designated as a partner institution. Each partner institution of a joint institution or consortium receives an equivalent Share for every affiliation in which the consortium is included.
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide (GETCO2)
- Assembling Galaxies of Resolved Anatomy (AGORA)
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)
- Avian Phylogenomics Project
- Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics (BCCP)
- Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics (BCTP)
- Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore (BEARS)
- Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC)
- Berkeley Stem Cell Center
- Berkeley-Etosha Anthrax Project
- Biophysics Graduate Group, UC Berkeley
- Biota of North America Program (BONAP)
- California Emerging Infections Program (CEIP)
- California Institute for Quantum Entanglement (CAIQuE)
- California Research Alliance (CARA)
- Cell Propulsion Lab (CPL)
- Center for 3D Structure and Physics of the Genome
- Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (CAMS)
- Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI)
- Center for Cellular Construction (CCC)
- Center for Isotope Geochemistry (CIG)
- Center for Neural Engineering and Prostheses (CNEP)
- Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (Northern CA COEH)
- Center for Scalable and Integrated NAno Manufacturing (SINAM)
- Center for Science of Information (CSoI)
- Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry (CSMC)
- Center for the Analysis of Sustainable Agro-ecological Systems (CASAS)
- Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation (CIQC)
- Collaborative Clean Air Policy Centre
- Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA)
- Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium
- ENCODE Consortium
- Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI)
- Engineering Research Center for Advanced Technologies for the Preservation of Biological Systems (ATP-Bio)
- Engineering Research Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology (ERC-EUV)
- Enzo Collaboration
- Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)
- Future Circular Collider Design Study (FCC)
- Hong Kong Centre for Logistics Robotics
- IceCube Collaboration
- Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI)
- Institute for the Study of the Ecological and Evolutionary Climate Impacts (ISEECI)
- InterPlanetary Network (IPN)
- International Brachypodium Initiative (IBI)
- International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium (IMSGC)
- Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI)
- Joint UAEU–UC Berkeley Laboratories for Materials Innovations
- KACST-UC Berkeley Center of Excellence for Nanomaterials for Clean Energy Applications (CENCEA)
- KAIST-UCB-VNU Global Climate Change Research Center
- KamLAND-Zen Collaboration
- Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at Berkeley
- Laboratory for Genomics Research (LGR)
- NSF AI Institute for Advances in Optimization (AI4OPT)
- NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC)
- NUS Synthetic Biology Research Consortium
- Nanoporous Materials Genome Center (NMGC)
- National Transfer Accounts (NTA)
- Novartis-Berkeley Center for Proteomics and Chemistry Technologies
- Novartis-Berkeley Translational Chemical Biology Institute
- Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)
- POLARBEAR Collaboration
- Pierre Binétruy Center (CNRS-UCB International Research Laboratory)
- Planet Hunter
- Quantum Science Center (QSC)
- RIKEN-Berkeley Center
- Re-Inventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt)
- SIBS-UC Berkeley Center of Molecular Life Sciences
- STROBE NSF Science and Technology Center
- Singapore-Berkeley Research Initiative for Sustainable Energy (SinBeRISE)
- Sutter's Mill Meteorite Consortium
- Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC)
- TMT International Observatory LLC (TIO)
- The ATLAS Collaboration
- The Bustamante Laboratory
- The Daya Bay Collaboration
- The LUX Collaboration
- The Paul F. Glenn Center for Aging Research at UCB and UCSF
- The STAR Collaboration
- The SuperCDMS Collaboration
- Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI)
- UC Berkeley - Wuhan University Joint Innovation Laboratory
- UC Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering
- UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program (JMP)
- UC6-Stanford Precision Learning Center
- UCSF-UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health
- USDA Plant Gene Expression Center (PGEC)
- USTC-UC Berkeley Joint Nano Science and Technology Institute
- Unidos en Salud, San Francisco
- University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
- Weill Neurohub
- West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS)
- Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
- Wisconsin Astrobiology Research Consortium (WARC)