Report summary

University of Michigan–ann Arbor Department of Periodontics and Oral in 2015-2026 reads as a 64-PI network with 234 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (36% of slots across 47 PIs; 47 labels), Oral Surgery as the leading subfield (16% of slots across 27 PIs; 27 labels), and Dental Implant Techniques and Outcomes 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 18 PIs across distinct clusters. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Hom‐Lay Wang (131.7 weighted works; Dental Implant Techniques and Outcomes, Periodontal Regeneration and Treatments). The strongest pairings are Hom‐Lay Wang and Muhammad H. A. Saleh (60 shared works, weight 31.2). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 209.3, around Oral Surgery, Urology, Orthodontics, led by Hom‐Lay Wang, Alberto Monje, Lorenzo Tavelli.