Report summary

The 2015-2026 picture for The University of Texas at Austin Department of Civil Architectural and Environmental Engineering is a 88-PI network with 132 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Engineering as the leading field (37% of slots across 60 PIs; 60 labels), Civil and Structural Engineering as the leading subfield (15% of slots across 31 PIs; 31 labels), and Seismic Waves and Analysis as the leading topic (3% of slots across 7 PIs; 7 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 Junfeng Jiao (68.4 weighted works; Urban Transport and Accessibility, Transportation Planning and Optimization); Chandra R. Bhat (63.8 weighted works; Urban Transport and Accessibility, Transportation Planning and Optimization). The strongest pairings are Salvatore Salamone and Brennan Dubuc (21 shared works, weight 19.2). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 8 internal connections, weight 38.3, around Civil and Structural Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Sociology and Political Science, led by Kasey M. Faust, Zoltán Nagy, Lina Sela.