Report summary

Pennsylvania State University Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering in 2015-2026 reads as a 64-PI network with 79 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Engineering as the leading field (39% of slots across 48 PIs; 48 labels), Mechanical Engineering as the leading subfield (12% of slots across 20 PIs; 20 labels), and Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis as the leading topic (5% of slots across 9 PIs; 9 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 22 PIs across distinct clusters. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Chunshan Song (68.3 weighted works; Catalytic Processes in Materials Science, Catalysts for Methane Reforming). The strongest pairings are Derek M. Hall and Serguei N. Lvov (51 shared works, weight 27.1). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 52.4, around Ocean Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Geophysics, led by Derek Elsworth, Arash Dahi Taleghani, Shimin Liu.