Report summary

The 2018-2020 picture for Johns Hopkins University Department of Biostatistics is a 42-PI network with 50 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (22% of slots across 17 PIs; 17 labels), Molecular Biology as the leading subfield (12% of slots across 12 PIs; 12 labels), and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life as the leading topic (6% of slots across 7 PIs; 7 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 William Checkley (27.6 weighted works; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, Asthma and respiratory diseases); Josef Coresh (24.7 weighted works; Birth, Development, and Health, Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes). The strongest pairings are Qian‐Li Xue and Karen Bandeen‐Roche (15 shared works, weight 6.9). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 21, around Statistics and Probability, Geriatrics and Gerontology, Economics and Econometrics, led by Josef Coresh, Qian‐Li Xue, Frank R. Lin.