Report summary

University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Food Science in 2018-2020 reads as a 18-PI network with 31 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Agricultural and Biological Sciences as the leading field (29% of slots across 13 PIs; 13 labels), Food Science as the leading subfield (19% of slots across 9 PIs; 9 labels), and Gut microbiota and health as the leading topic (6% of slots across 3 PIs; 3 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 13 PIs across distinct clusters. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are David Julian McClements (124.1 weighted works; Proteins in Food Systems, Food Chemistry and Fat Analysis). The strongest pairings are Hang Xiao and Yanhui Han (28 shared works, weight 14.1). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 49, around Food Science, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, led by David Julian McClements, Hang Xiao, Lili He.