Report summary

University of Utah Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in 2015-2026 reads as a 56-PI network with 227 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (77% of slots across 56 PIs; 56 labels), Surgery as the leading subfield (34% of slots across 42 PIs; 42 labels), and Bone fractures and treatments as the leading topic (7% of slots across 12 PIs; 12 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 Man Hung (82.9 weighted works; Dental Health and Care Utilization, Oral microbiology and periodontitis research). The strongest pairings are Peter N. Chalmers and Robert Z. Tashjian (102 shared works, weight 59.3). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 13 internal connections, weight 111.5, around Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, led by Man Hung, Alexej Barg, Amy L. Lenz.