Report summary

The 2021-2023 picture for Duke University Department of Anesthesiology is a 44-PI network with 62 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (54% of slots across 41 PIs; 41 labels), Surgery as the leading subfield (12% of slots across 14 PIs; 14 labels), and Anesthesia and Pain Management as the leading topic (4% 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 top weighted PIs are Ru‐Rong Ji (13.7 weighted works; Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology); B. Duncan X. Lascelles (13.5 weighted works; Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology, Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms). The strongest pairings are Tetsu Ohnuma and Vijay Krishnamoorthy (33 shared works, weight 14.6); Vijay Krishnamoorthy and Karthik Raghunathan (28 shared works, weight 10.4). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 13 internal connections, weight 53.3, around Surgery, Physiology, Epidemiology, led by Paul E. Wischmeyer, Jerome J. Federspiel, Vijay Krishnamoorthy.