Report summary

Michigan State University Department of Plant Biology in 2015-2026 reads as a 65-PI network with 92 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Agricultural and Biological Sciences as the leading field (37% of slots across 42 PIs; 42 labels), Plant Science as the leading subfield (25% of slots across 37 PIs; 37 labels), and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms as the leading topic (5% of slots across 10 PIs; 10 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 Federica Brandizzí (40.3 weighted works; Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease). The strongest pairings are Shin‐Han Shiu and Melissa D. Lehti‐Shiu (13 shared works, weight 7.6); Patrick P. Edger and Robert VanBuren (16 shared works, weight 7.5). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 8 internal connections, weight 22.2, around Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Genetics, led by Federica Brandizzí, C. Robin Buell, Shin‐Han Shiu; group 2 with 9 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 14.4, around Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Biochemistry, led by Berkley J. Walker, Jianping Hu, Yair Shachar‐Hill.