Report summary

The 2015-2017 picture for University of Illinois Chicago Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition is a 14-PI network with 11 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (55% of slots across 12 PIs; 12 labels), Physiology as the leading subfield (16% of slots across 5 PIs; 5 labels), and Adipose Tissue and Metabolism as the leading topic (8% of slots across 3 PIs; 3 labels). The specialization is notable and potentially attractive, with the caveat that adjacent fields may have fewer local peers. The leading PI names are Shane A. Phillips (15.2 weighted works; Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity, Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention). The clearest collaboration lines are Jacob M. Haus and Shane A. Phillips (10 shared works, weight 3.3); Giamila Fantuzzi and Carol Braunschweig (4 shared works, weight 2.6). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 13.7, around Physiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology, led by Shane A. Phillips, Krista A Varady, Bo Fernhall.