Report summary

Michigan State University Department of Fisheries and Wildlife in 2015-2026 reads as a 49-PI network with 73 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Environmental Science as the leading field (37% of slots across 34 PIs; 34 labels), Nature and Landscape Conservation as the leading subfield (12% of slots across 15 PIs; 15 labels), and Fish Ecology and Management Studies as the leading topic (10% of slots across 14 PIs; 14 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 23 PIs across distinct clusters. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Jianguo Liu (57.8 weighted works; Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management); Weiming Li (47.9 weighted works; Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species, Animal Behavior and Reproduction). The strongest pairings are Patricia A. Soranno and Kendra Spence Cheruvelil (32 shared works, weight 17.6). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 50.3, around Sociology and Political Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, led by Jianguo Liu, Andrew K. Carlson, Robert A. Montgomery; group 2 with 8 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 35.8, around Immunology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, led by Weiming Li, Kim T. Scribner, Thomas P. Loch.