Report summary

Boston University Department of Surgery in 2021-2023 reads as a 27-PI network with 44 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (58% of slots across 25 PIs; 25 labels), Surgery as the leading subfield (16% of slots across 11 PIs; 11 labels), and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening as the leading topic (6% of slots across 5 PIs; 5 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 13 PIs across distinct clusters. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Teviah E. Sachs (16.3 weighted works; Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research, Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies); Alik Farber (15.7 weighted works; Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases, Peripheral Artery Disease Management). The strongest pairings are Teviah E. Sachs and Jennifer F. Tseng (26 shared works, weight 13.4). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 6 PIs, 7 internal connections, weight 13.9, around Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Emergency Medicine, led by Alik Farber, Tejal S. Brahmbhatt, Sabrina E. Sanchez; group 2 with 5 PIs, 7 internal connections, weight 34.4, around Oncology, Surgery, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, led by Teviah E. Sachs, Frederick Thurston Drake, Jennifer F. Tseng.