Report summary

Washington University in St. Louis Department of Anesthesiology in 2018-2020 reads as a 48-PI network with 68 internal PI collaborations. The dominant subject mix is Medicine as the leading field (44% of slots across 38 PIs; 38 labels), Molecular Biology as the leading subfield (9% of slots across 12 PIs; 12 labels), and Pain Mechanisms and Treatments as the leading topic (4% of slots across 6 PIs; 6 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 23 PIs across distinct clusters. The leading PI names are Tanya M. Wildes (18.7 weighted works; Multiple Myeloma Research and Treatments, Frailty in Older Adults). The most visible ties are Wayland W.L. Cheng and Alex S. Evers (8 shared works, weight 5.3); Michael S. Avidan and Ben Julian A. Palanca (10 shared works, weight 5). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 33.8, around Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Surgery, led by Michael S. Avidan, Eric J. Lenze, Simon Haroutounian; group 2 with 9 PIs, 12 internal connections, weight 22.8, around Physiology, Dermatology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, led by Brian Kim, H. Henry Lai, Hongzhen Hu.