Report summary

University of Pennsylvania Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in 2015-2017 reads as a 35-PI network with 65 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (67% of slots across 34 PIs; 34 labels), Surgery as the leading subfield (23% of slots across 20 PIs; 20 labels), and Bone fractures and treatments as the leading topic (5% of slots across 5 PIs; 5 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 21 PIs across distinct clusters. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Joseph Bernstein (22.4 weighted works; Diversity and Career in Medicine, Innovations in Medical Education); Robert L. Mauck (20.7 weighted works; Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms, Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques). The strongest pairings are Eileen M. Shore and Frederick S. Kaplan (18 shared works, weight 8.6); Jiabin Liu and Nabil Elkassabany (12 shared works, weight 8). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 23.1, around Rheumatology, Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, led by Robert L. Mauck, Ling Qin, Lachlan J. Smith.