Report summary

The 2021-2023 picture for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Epidemiology is a 66-PI network with 144 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (38% of slots across 49 PIs; 49 labels), Infectious Diseases as the leading subfield (8% of slots across 14 PIs; 14 labels), and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research as the leading topic (3% of slots across 6 PIs; 6 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The top weighted PIs are Weiming Tang (26.8 weighted works; HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk, HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions); Ralph S. Baric (25.8 weighted works; SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology). The strongest pairings are Yvonne M. Golightly and Amanda E. Nelson (44 shared works, weight 15.7). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 47.8, around Economics and Econometrics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Plant Science, led by Lawrence S. Engel, Stephanie M. Engel, Hazel B. Nichols; group 2 with 9 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 28.4, around Infectious Diseases, Animal Science and Zoology, Virology, led by Ralph S. Baric, Dirk P. Dittmer, Guochun Jiang.