Report summary

The 2024-2026 picture for Purdue University West Lafayette Department of Chemistry is a 52-PI network with 27 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as the leading field (23% of slots across 27 PIs; 27 labels), Molecular Biology as the leading subfield (19% of slots across 24 PIs; 24 labels), and Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications as the leading topic (4% of slots across 7 PIs; 7 labels). This is a solid, readable collaboration map: group-level fit matters more than a single department-wide label. The top weighted PIs are Jeffrey E. Dick (48.8 weighted works; Electrochemical Analysis and Applications, Advanced battery technologies research). The strongest pairings are Julia Laskin and Jianguo Mei (5 shared works, weight 2.8). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 7.7, around Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, led by Alexander Laskin, Libai Huang, Garth J. Simpson.