Report summary

The 2015-2026 picture for Northwestern University Department of Surgery is a 118-PI network with 474 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (57% of slots across 110 PIs; 110 labels), Surgery as the leading subfield (19% of slots across 57 PIs; 57 labels), and Aortic aneurysm repair treatments as the leading topic (2% of slots across 8 PIs; 8 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The leading PI names are Murad Alam (82.5 weighted works; Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer Studies, Dermatologic Treatments and Research). The clearest collaboration lines are Riad Salem and Robert J. Lewandowski (145 shared works, weight 57.3). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 146.4, around Surgery, Oncology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, led by Ankit Bharat, Karl Y. Bilimoria, Chitaru Kurihara; group 2 with 10 PIs, 12 internal connections, weight 116, around Surgery, Transplantation, Epidemiology, led by Riad Salem, Robert J. Lewandowski, Anat R. Tambur.