Report summary

The 2024-2026 picture for University of California, Irvine Department of Pediatrics is a 23-PI network with 6 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (48% of slots across 21 PIs; 21 labels), Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health as the leading subfield (14% of slots across 9 PIs; 9 labels), and Birth, Development, and Health as the leading topic (4% of slots across 3 PIs; 3 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 Katharine Simon (8.4 weighted works; Spatial Cognition and Navigation, Memory and Neural Mechanisms). The strongest pairings are Claudia Buß and Jerod M. Rasmussen (6 shared works, weight 3.3). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 4 PIs, 4 internal connections, weight 7.2, around Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Molecular Biology, Clinical Psychology, led by Claudia Buß, Jerod M. Rasmussen, Tallie Z. Baram.