Report summary

The 2015-2017 picture for The University of Texas at Austin Department of Integrative Biology is a 37-PI network with 17 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Agricultural and Biological Sciences as the leading field (29% of slots across 22 PIs; 22 labels), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics as the leading subfield (17% of slots across 16 PIs; 16 labels), and Animal Behavior and Reproduction as the leading topic (7% of slots across 8 PIs; 8 labels). That is a thin collaboration pattern, useful for spotting individual pairs but less persuasive as a broad departmental network. The top weighted PIs are Sahotra Sarkar (11.8 weighted works; Philosophy and History of Science, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics). The strongest pairings are Robert K. Jansen and Tracey A. Ruhlman (14 shared works, weight 8.2). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 6 PIs, 5 internal connections, weight 6.1, around Social Psychology, Ecology, Genetics, led by Hans A. Hofmann, Mikhail V. Matz, Sarah W. Davies.