Report summary

The 2015-2017 picture for Duke University Department of Ophthalmology is a 30-PI network with 64 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (63% of slots across 27 PIs; 27 labels), Ophthalmology as the leading subfield (31% of slots across 23 PIs; 23 labels), and Retinal Diseases and Treatments as the leading topic (16% of slots across 14 PIs; 14 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 Cynthia A. Toth (21.6 weighted works; Retinal and Macular Surgery, Retinal Diseases and Treatments). The strongest pairings are Cynthia A. Toth and Joseph A. Izatt (38 shared works, weight 18.2). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 14 internal connections, weight 84.8, around Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering, led by Cynthia A. Toth, Joseph A. Izatt, Glenn J. Jaffe.