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For Stanford University Department of Surgery in 2024-2026, the graph shows 67 visible PIs and 149 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (53% of slots across 59 PIs; 59 labels), Surgery as the leading subfield (18% of slots across 31 PIs; 31 labels), and Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes as the leading topic (3% of slots across 6 PIs; 6 labels). That is a healthy pattern, with enough links to reveal several interpretable groups rather than one undifferentiated component. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Kazunari Sasaki (27 weighted works; Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes, Liver Disease and Transplantation). The clearest collaboration lines are Derrick C. Wan and Michael T. Longaker (27 shared works, weight 14.8); Michelle Griffin and Michael T. Longaker (23 shared works, weight 12.7). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 13.5, around Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Nutrition and Dietetics, led by Bill Chiu, Ruben Yiqi Luo, Joseph D. Forrester.