Report summary

The 2016-2026 picture for The Ohio State University Department of Physics is a 119-PI network with 198 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Physics and Astronomy as the leading field (45% of slots across 84 PIs; 84 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 (7% 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 leading PI names are Enam Chowdhury (38.4 weighted works; Laser Material Processing Techniques, Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications); Dongping Zhong (37.1 weighted works; Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Photoreceptor and optogenetics research). The clearest collaboration lines are Louis F. DiMauro and Pierre Agostini (32 shared works, weight 15.3). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 52.3, around Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, led by Roland Kawakami, Fengyuan Yang, Jay Gupta; group 2 with 9 PIs, 8 internal connections, weight 11.7, around Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Artificial Intelligence, led by Todd A. Thompson, David H. Weinberg, Tim Linden.