Report summary

The 2021-2023 picture for University of Pennsylvania Department of Biostatistics Epidemiology and Informatics Perelman is a 77-PI network with 240 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (37% of slots across 53 PIs; 53 labels), Epidemiology as the leading subfield (7% of slots across 14 PIs; 14 labels), and Advanced Causal Inference Techniques as the leading topic (3% of slots across 8 PIs; 8 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 Alexis Ogdie (27.4 weighted works; Psoriasis: Treatment and Pathogenesis, Spondyloarthritis Studies and Treatments); Nadim Mahmud (26.4 weighted works; Liver Disease and Transplantation, Employment and Welfare Studies). The strongest pairings are Joshua F. Baker and Michael George (16 shared works, weight 9.3); Charles E. Leonard and Sean Hennessy (18 shared works, weight 9). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 13 internal connections, weight 19.9, around Genetics, Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, led by Dokyoon Kim, Li Shen, Qi Long; group 2 with 9 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 39.9, around Geriatrics and Gerontology, Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, led by Rebecca A. Hubbard, Charles E. Leonard, Allison W. Willis.