Report summary

The 2015-2017 picture for Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Department of Psychology is a 28-PI network with 6 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Neuroscience as the leading field (33% of slots across 17 PIs; 17 labels), Cognitive Neuroscience as the leading subfield (23% of slots across 16 PIs; 16 labels), and Neural dynamics and brain function as the leading topic (6% of slots across 5 PIs; 5 labels). That is a thin collaboration pattern, useful for spotting individual pairs but less persuasive as a broad departmental network. The top weighted PIs are Elizabeth B. Torres (11.5 weighted works; Motor Control and Adaptation, Action Observation and Synchronization). The strongest pairings are Jacob Feldman and Manish Singh (11 shared works, weight 6). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 4 PIs, 5 internal connections, weight 2.4, around Clinical Psychology, Developmental Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, led by Edward A. Selby, Tracey J. Shors, Marsha E. Bates.