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For Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Department of Physics and Astronomy in 2024-2026, the graph shows 21 visible PIs and 5 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Physics and Astronomy as the leading field (32% of slots across 13 PIs; 13 labels), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics as the leading subfield (17% of slots across 9 PIs; 9 labels), and Advanced Condensed Matter Physics as the leading topic (6% of slots across 4 PIs; 4 labels). That looks relatively sparse, so claims about department-wide cohesion should be made carefully. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Sang‐Wook Cheong (7.4 weighted works; Topological Materials and Phenomena, Magnetic properties of thin films); Vitaly Podzorov (6.2 weighted works; Ion-surface interactions and analysis, Thin-Film Transistor Technologies). The clearest collaboration lines are Sang‐Wook Cheong and Karin M. Rabe (3 shared works, weight 1.2); Sang‐Wook Cheong and G. Blumberg (2 shared works, weight 1.1). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 5 PIs, 4 internal connections, weight 3.4, around Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Chemistry, led by Sang‐Wook Cheong, Seongshik Oh, Karin M. Rabe.