Report summary

The 2015-2026 picture for University of Chicago Department of Sociology is a 86-PI network with 17 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Social Sciences as the leading field (49% of slots across 74 PIs; 74 labels), Sociology and Political Science as the leading subfield (25% of slots across 49 PIs; 49 labels), and Social and Cultural Dynamics as the leading topic (4% of slots across 9 PIs; 9 labels). That is a thin collaboration pattern, useful for spotting individual pairs but less persuasive as a broad departmental network. The leading PI names are Luís M. A. Bettencourt (25.8 weighted works; Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis, Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis); John Levi Martin (23.9 weighted works; Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence). The clearest collaboration lines are Linda J. Waite and Yiang Li (4 shared works, weight 4); John Levi Martin and Alessandra Lembo (4 shared works, weight 3.5). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 6 PIs, 5 internal connections, weight 4.3, around Economics and Econometrics, Communication, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, led by Luís M. A. Bettencourt, James A. Evans, Christof Brandtner.