Report summary

The 2015-2017 picture for Yale University Department of Surgery is a 66-PI network with 102 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (55% of slots across 61 PIs; 61 labels), Surgery as the leading subfield (13% of slots across 23 PIs; 23 labels), and Head and Neck Cancer Studies as the leading topic (2% of slots across 4 PIs; 4 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 John A. Elefteriades (30.7 weighted works; Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches, Aortic aneurysm repair treatments). The strongest pairings are Anees B. Chagpar and Donald R. Lannin (17 shared works, weight 9.8). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 12 internal connections, weight 28, around Emergency Medicine, Surgery, Gender Studies, led by Peter S. Yoo, Kevin Y. Pei, Bishwajit Bhattacharya; group 2 with 10 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 21.7, around Otorhinolaryngology, Oncology, Physiology, led by Benjamin L. Judson, Saral Mehra, Steven B. Leder.