Report summary

Boston University Department of Surgery in 2015-2026 reads as a 63-PI network with 205 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (62% of slots across 57 PIs; 57 labels), Surgery as the leading subfield (17% of slots across 26 PIs; 26 labels), and Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection as the leading topic (4% of slots across 7 PIs; 7 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 19 PIs across distinct clusters. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Jeffrey J. Siracuse (139.2 weighted works; Vascular Procedures and Complications, Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes). The strongest pairings are Jeffrey J. Siracuse and Alik Farber (235 shared works, weight 124.3). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 94.5, around Oncology, Surgery, Gender Studies, led by Teviah E. Sachs, Michael Poulson, Frederick Thurston Drake.