Report summary

The 2021-2023 picture for Michigan State University Department of Fisheries and Wildlife is a 23-PI network with 11 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Environmental Science as the leading field (34% of slots across 15 PIs; 15 labels), Nature and Landscape Conservation as the leading subfield (13% of slots across 8 PIs; 8 labels), and Fish Ecology and Management Studies as the leading topic (12% of slots across 8 PIs; 8 labels). That is a thin collaboration pattern, useful for spotting individual pairs but less persuasive as a broad departmental network. The top weighted PIs are Jianguo Liu (16.2 weighted works; Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Species Distribution and Climate Change). The strongest pairings are Jianguo Liu and Andrés Viña (10 shared works, weight 5.5). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 16.6, around Immunology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, led by Jianguo Liu, Kim T. Scribner, Thomas P. Loch.