Report summary

The 2015-2017 picture for University of California, Irvine Department of Urology is a 17-PI network with 16 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (71% of slots across 15 PIs; 15 labels), Surgery as the leading subfield (22% of slots across 9 PIs; 9 labels), and Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments as the leading topic (8% of slots across 4 PIs; 4 labels). The specialization is notable and potentially attractive, with the caveat that adjacent fields may have fewer local peers. The leading PI names are Jaime Landman (13.1 weighted works; Renal cell carcinoma treatment, Renal and related cancers). The clearest collaboration lines are Ralph V. Clayman and Jaime Landman (9 shared works, weight 5); Ramy F. Youssef and Jaime Landman (8 shared works, weight 4.8). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 17, around Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery, Molecular Biology, led by Jaime Landman, Xiaolin Zi, Ramy F. Youssef.