Research Collaboration Index · 2026

University of California, Berkeley

North America · Platinum standing

#35World rank
92.2RCI score
1,159Collaborating institutions
79Partner countries
87,852Joint works, 5 yr
4.13FWCI

Strongest in Engineering, at #5 in the world.

The profile

Collaboration profile

98Influence
97Brokerage
95Reach
80Diversity
97Sustained
98Impact
75International

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World rank in each of the 26 subject indices; gold cards mark top-500 standings. Click through to any full subject ranking.

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Featured academics

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Ion Stoica

Ion StoicaSubject Award Winner 2026

Computer Science · featured academic

Professor Stoica directs Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab and works on cloud computing and systems for artificial intelligence. He co-authored the PagedAttention paper behind the vLLM serving engine, which manages attention key value memory efficiently to serve large language models, work carried out with collaborators at Stanford and UC San Diego.

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