Report summary

The 2015-2026 picture for Washington University in St. Louis Department of Surgery is a 119-PI network with 717 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (55% of slots across 107 PIs; 107 labels), Surgery as the leading subfield (17% of slots across 50 PIs; 50 labels), and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening as the leading topic (3% of slots across 9 PIs; 9 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 Graham A. Colditz (66.2 weighted works; Cancer Risks and Factors, Global Cancer Incidence and Screening). The strongest pairings are Varun Puri and Benjamin D. Kozower (98 shared works, weight 42.2); Daniel Kreisel and Varun Puri (100 shared works, weight 37.9). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 274.5, around Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Transplantation, led by Daniel Kreisel, Varun Puri, Ramsey R. Hachem; group 2 with 8 PIs, 7 internal connections, weight 46.3, around Surgery, Cancer Research, Economics and Econometrics, led by Mary C. Politi, Michael S. Avidan, Terence M. Myckatyn.