Report summary

Mcmaster University Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 2015-2026 reads as a 37-PI network with 48 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Engineering as the leading field (45% of slots across 33 PIs; 33 labels), Mechanical Engineering as the leading subfield (16% of slots across 15 PIs; 15 labels), and Metallurgical Processes and Thermodynamics as the leading topic (6% of slots across 6 PIs; 6 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 15 PIs across distinct clusters. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Igor Zhitomirsky (130.5 weighted works; Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication, Electrophoretic Deposition in Materials Science). The strongest pairings are Igor Zhitomirsky and Ishwar K. Puri (16 shared works, weight 8.8). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 35.1, around Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, led by Gianluigi A. Botton, Kathryn Grandfield, A.B. Phillion.