Report summary

The 2015-2026 picture for University of Pennsylvania Department of Radiation Oncology is a 85-PI network with 774 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (49% of slots across 75 PIs; 75 labels), Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine as the leading subfield (16% of slots across 36 PIs; 36 labels), and Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques as the leading topic (7% of slots across 17 PIs; 17 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 Surbhi Grover (71.7 weighted works; Cervical Cancer and HPV Research, Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy); Christos Davatzikos (64 weighted works; Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment). The strongest pairings are Constantinos Koumenis and Ioannis I. Verginadis (50 shared works, weight 19.4); Alexander Lin and John N. Lukens (57 shared works, weight 18.8). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 105.4, around Oncology, Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, led by Christine E. Hill‐Kayser, Michael J. LaRiviere, John P. Plastaras; group 2 with 9 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 126.1, around Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Oncology, led by Timothy C. Zhu, Lova Sun, Abigail T. Berman.