Report summary

The 2015-2017 picture for University of California, San Diego Department of Neurosciences is a 59-PI network with 73 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (36% of slots across 41 PIs; 41 labels), Physiology as the leading subfield (11% of slots across 17 PIs; 17 labels), and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments as the leading topic (7% of slots across 12 PIs; 12 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 Eliezer Masliah (27.6 weighted works; Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments). The strongest pairings are Eliezer Masliah and Brian Spencer (14 shared works, weight 7.3). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 26.4, around Physiology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, led by Eliezer Masliah, Santosh Kesari, Stuart A. Lipton; group 2 with 7 PIs, 6 internal connections, weight 17.7, around Cognitive Neuroscience, Genetics, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, led by Anders M. Dale, William S. Kremen, Anna Devor.