Report summary

University of Florida Department of Plant Pathology in 2015-2026 reads as a 63-PI network with 205 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Agricultural and Biological Sciences as the leading field (58% of slots across 59 PIs; 59 labels), Plant Science as the leading subfield (46% of slots across 57 PIs; 57 labels), and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity as the leading topic (12% of slots across 22 PIs; 22 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 16 PIs across distinct clusters. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Nabil Killiny (86.6 weighted works; Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens, Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences); Megan M. Dewdney (81.3 weighted works; Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies, Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases). The strongest pairings are Nabil Killiny and Yasser Nehela (30 shared works, weight 22.8). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 13 internal connections, weight 131.4, around Plant Science, Cell Biology, Social Psychology, led by Nian Wang, Jeffrey B. Jones, Mathews L. Paret.