Report summary

The 2021-2023 picture for Boston University Department of Epidemiology is a 33-PI network with 43 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (42% of slots across 25 PIs; 25 labels), Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health as the leading subfield (8% of slots across 7 PIs; 7 labels), and Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research as the leading topic (5% of slots across 5 PIs; 5 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The leading PI names are Sandro Galea (32.6 weighted works; Public Health Policies and Education, COVID-19 and Mental Health). The clearest collaboration lines are Jaimie L. Gradus and Anthony J. Rosellini (19 shared works, weight 9.1); Sandro Galea and Jaimie L. Gradus (16 shared works, weight 8.8). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 7 PIs, 7 internal connections, weight 31.4, around Clinical Psychology, Modeling and Simulation, Social Psychology, led by Sandro Galea, Jaimie L. Gradus, Jacob Bor; group 2 with 7 PIs, 7 internal connections, weight 16.9, around Psychiatry and Mental health, Nutrition and Dietetics, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, led by Marco Vinceti, Lauren A. Wise, Rebecca B. Perkins.