Report summary

The 2015-2026 picture for University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Food Science is a 40-PI network with 113 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Agricultural and Biological Sciences as the leading field (25% of slots across 23 PIs; 23 labels), Food Science as the leading subfield (14% of slots across 15 PIs; 15 labels), and Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety as the leading topic (6% of slots across 7 PIs; 7 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 David Julian McClements (420.9 weighted works; Proteins in Food Systems, Food Chemistry and Fat Analysis). The clearest collaboration lines are David Julian McClements and Hang Xiao (77 shared works, weight 34.3); David Julian McClements and Eric A. Decker (71 shared works, weight 33.6). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 174.3, around Food Science, Biochemistry, Nutrition and Dietetics, led by David Julian McClements, Hang Xiao, Lili He.