Report summary

University of California, Los Angeles Department of Surgery David Geffen in 2015-2017 reads as a 35-PI network with 56 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (53% of slots across 30 PIs; 30 labels), Surgery as the leading subfield (20% of slots across 18 PIs; 18 labels), and Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes as the leading topic (6% of slots across 6 PIs; 6 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 18 PIs across distinct clusters. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Aydogan Özcan (37 weighted works; Digital Holography and Microscopy, Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques); Sammy Saab (29.6 weighted works; Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Hepatitis C virus research). The strongest pairings are Chia Soo and Kang Ting (34 shared works, weight 11.5). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 16 internal connections, weight 46.5, around Hepatology, Surgery, Epidemiology, led by Sammy Saab, Ali Zarrinpar, Vatche G. Agopian.