Report summary

The 2015-2017 picture for University of Virginia Department of Orthopaedic Surgery is a 19-PI network with 24 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (70% of slots across 19 PIs; 19 labels), Surgery as the leading subfield (28% of slots across 13 PIs; 13 labels), and Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology as the leading topic (7% of slots across 4 PIs; 4 labels). The specialization is notable and potentially attractive, with the caveat that adjacent fields may have fewer local peers. The leading PI names are Hamid Hassanzadeh (23.7 weighted works; Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology, Spinal Hematomas and Complications). The clearest collaboration lines are Hamid Hassanzadeh and Adam L. Shimer (34 shared works, weight 16.4). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 16 internal connections, weight 74.6, around Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Epidemiology, led by Hamid Hassanzadeh, Brian C. Werner, Adam L. Shimer.