Report summary

Stanford University Department of Surgery in 2015-2017 reads as a 51-PI network with 97 internal PI collaborations. The dominant subject mix is Medicine as the leading field (58% of slots across 49 PIs; 49 labels), Surgery as the leading subfield (15% of slots across 19 PIs; 19 labels), and Emergency and Acute Care Studies as the leading topic (3% of slots across 5 PIs; 5 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 22 PIs across distinct clusters. The leading PI names are George A. Poultsides (25.7 weighted works; Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes, Gastrointestinal Tumor Research and Treatment); Aijaz Ahmed (24.6 weighted works; Hepatitis C virus research, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment). The most visible ties are Michael T. Longaker and Derrick C. Wan (46 shared works, weight 22.6). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 13 internal connections, weight 68, around Emergency Medicine, Surgery, Oncology, led by George A. Poultsides, Joseph D. Forrester, Brendan C. Visser.