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Top KOL Ranking

As of October 2026, according to ScienceLeadR, the leading experts on Obesity are Carel W le Roux (Ulster Hospital, United Kingdom), Thomas A Wadden (University of Pennsylvania, United States) and Matthias Blüher (University Hospital Leipzig, Germany), ranked by scientific expertise on this MeSH term among 95,966 matching experts. How the ranking works.

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Harvard University

United States

SLR 85 ScienceLeadR Reputation 1500%
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Full top 25 ranking: Top Obesity key opinion leaders

Top Obesity key opinion leaders

Experts are ranked by their scientific expertise on this MeSH term. The overall SLR shown for each expert is the ScienceLeadR Reputation score across all topics, computed from publications, clinical trials, patents and grants; it is not the sort key. Top 25 of 95,966 experts matching this MeSH term.

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  1. Carel W le Roux — Ulster Hospital, United Kingdom — overall SLR (all topics) 3584
  2. Thomas A Wadden — University of Pennsylvania, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 2483
  3. Matthias Blüher — University Hospital Leipzig, Germany — overall SLR (all topics) 3208
  4. Karine Clément — Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, France — overall SLR (all topics) 2999
  5. Gema Frühbeck — Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Spain — overall SLR (all topics) 1873
  6. David B Allison — Texas Children's Hospital, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 4017
  7. Rena R Wing — Miriam Hospital, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 3258
  8. Yves Boirie — Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Clermont-Ferrand, France — overall SLR (all topics) 2412
  9. Arne Astrup — Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark — overall SLR (all topics) 3241
  10. Naveed Sattar — University of Glasgow, United Kingdom — overall SLR (all topics) 7539
  11. Melanie J Davies — Leicester General Hospital, United Kingdom — overall SLR (all topics) 4696
  12. Steven B Heymsfield — Pennington Biomedical Research Center, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 3670
  13. Carlos M Grilo — Yale School of Medicine, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 2917
  14. Louis J Aronne — NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 1238
  15. Louise A Baur — Children's Hospital at Westmead, Australia — overall SLR (all topics) 1726
  16. Christos S Mantzoros — Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 4035
  17. Elsie M Taveras — Massachusetts General Hospital, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 1474
  18. Jack A Yanovski — Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 2013
  19. Frank B Hu — Brigham and Women's Hospital, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 9296
  20. Boyd Swinburn — University of Auckland, New Zealand — overall SLR (all topics) 1861
  21. Samuel Klein — Washington University Medical Center, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 3112
  22. Philippe Froguel — Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille, France — overall SLR (all topics) 3404
  23. Kirsi H Pietiläinen — Helsinki University Hospital, Finland — overall SLR (all topics) 1612
  24. Martin Wabitsch — University Hospital Ulm, Germany — overall SLR (all topics) 2348
  25. Maithé Tauber — Hôpital des Enfants, France — overall SLR (all topics) 1419