Report summary

The 2015-2026 picture for The Ohio State University Department of Physics is a 120-PI network with 226 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Physics and Astronomy as the leading field (42% of slots across 83 PIs; 83 labels), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics as the leading subfield (17% of slots across 39 PIs; 39 labels), and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies as the leading topic (6% of slots across 21 PIs; 21 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The top weighted PIs are Enam Chowdhury (40.3 weighted works; Laser Material Processing Techniques, Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications); Dongping Zhong (39.8 weighted works; Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Photoreceptor and optogenetics research). The strongest pairings are Pierre Agostini and Louis F. DiMauro (32 shared works, weight 15.3). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 13 internal connections, weight 22.7, around Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Political Science and International Relations, led by Todd A. Thompson, David H. Weinberg, Tim Linden.