Report summary

The 2024-2026 picture for University of Southern California Department of Psychology is a 27-PI network with 12 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Psychology as the leading field (35% of slots across 20 PIs; 20 labels), Cognitive Neuroscience as the leading subfield (15% of slots across 11 PIs; 11 labels), and Behavioral Health and Interventions as the leading topic (4% of slots across 3 PIs; 3 labels). That is a thin collaboration pattern, useful for spotting individual pairs but less persuasive as a broad departmental network. The top weighted PIs are Rand R. Wilcox (8 weighted works; Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials, Advanced Statistical Methods and Models). The strongest pairings are Anthony G. Vaccaro and Jonas Kaplan (8 shared works, weight 3.5); Anthony G. Vaccaro and Darby Saxbe (5 shared works, weight 3.2). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 7 PIs, 6 internal connections, weight 2.9, around Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, led by Rand R. Wilcox, Daphna Oyserman, Mark H. C. Lai.