Report summary

The 2015-2026 picture for Boston University Department of Epidemiology is a 80-PI network with 256 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (47% of slots across 65 PIs; 65 labels), Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health as the leading subfield (7% of slots across 14 PIs; 14 labels), and Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research as the leading topic (3% of slots across 8 PIs; 8 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The top weighted PIs are Sandro Galea (91.6 weighted works; Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Health disparities and outcomes). The strongest pairings are Lauren A. Wise and Amelia K. Wesselink (163 shared works, weight 80.7); Lauren A. Wise and Elizabeth E. Hatch (132 shared works, weight 61.8). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 16 internal connections, weight 381.3, around Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, led by Lauren A. Wise, Marco Vinceti, Amelia K. Wesselink.