Report summary

University of Chicago Department of Surgery in 2015-2026 reads as a 119-PI network with 409 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (54% of slots across 104 PIs; 104 labels), Surgery as the leading subfield (16% of slots across 48 PIs; 48 labels), and Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes as the leading topic (3% of slots across 9 PIs; 9 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 30 PIs across distinct clusters. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are John C. Alverdy (64 weighted works; Gut microbiota and health, Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments); Husam H. Balkhy (62.9 weighted works; Cardiac and Coronary Surgery Techniques, Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments). The strongest pairings are Nir Uriel and Valluvan Jeevanandam (134 shared works, weight 62). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 16 internal connections, weight 276.1, around Surgery, Biomedical Engineering, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, led by Nir Uriel, Valluvan Jeevanandam, Ross Milner.