Report summary

The 2018-2020 picture for University of California, San Francisco Department of Orthopaedic Surgery is a 44-PI network with 78 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (68% of slots across 41 PIs; 41 labels), Surgery as the leading subfield (26% of slots across 28 PIs; 28 labels), and Bone fractures and treatments as the leading topic (6% of slots across 8 PIs; 8 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The leading PI names are Drew A. Lansdown (22.9 weighted works; Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies, Tendon Structure and Treatment); Alan L. Zhang (19.7 weighted works; Hip disorders and treatments, Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty). The clearest collaboration lines are Drew A. Lansdown and Brian T. Feeley (29 shared works, weight 12.8); Drew A. Lansdown and C. Benjamin (20 shared works, weight 12.8). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 12 internal connections, weight 31.5, around Epidemiology, Surgery, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, led by Theodore Miclau, Saam Morshed, David Shearer; group 2 with 8 PIs, 12 internal connections, weight 75.8, around Surgery, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, led by Drew A. Lansdown, Alan L. Zhang, Brian T. Feeley.