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Top KOL Ranking

As of October 2026, according to ScienceLeadR, the leading experts on Arthritis are Désirée van der Heijde (Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands), Philip J Mease (Swedish Medical Center (United States, Seattle), United States) and Dafna D Gladman (Toronto Western Hospital, Canada), ranked by scientific expertise on this MeSH term among 124,038 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 Arthritis key opinion leaders

Top Arthritis 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 124,038 experts matching this MeSH term.

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  1. Désirée van der Heijde — Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands — overall SLR (all topics) 4457
  2. Philip J Mease — Swedish Medical Center (United States, Seattle), United States — overall SLR (all topics) 5518
  3. Dafna D Gladman — Toronto Western Hospital, Canada — overall SLR (all topics) 5067
  4. Josef S Smolen — Medical University of Vienna, Austria — overall SLR (all topics) 5039
  5. Maxime Dougados — Hôpital Cochin, France — overall SLR (all topics) 4788
  6. Xenofon Baraliakos — Universitätsklinik Marien Hospital Herne, Germany — overall SLR (all topics) 4285
  7. Georg Schett — Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Germany — overall SLR (all topics) 7130
  8. Laure Gossec — Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, France — overall SLR (all topics) 4148
  9. Laura C Coates — Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, United Kingdom — overall SLR (all topics) 3450
  10. Mikkel Østergaard — Rigshospitalet, Denmark — overall SLR (all topics) 3636
  11. David T Felson — Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom — overall SLR (all topics) 4660
  12. Joachim Sieper — Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Germany — overall SLR (all topics) 3396
  13. Xavier Mariette — Bicêtre Hospital, France — overall SLR (all topics) 5122
  14. Yoshiya Tanaka — University of Occupational and Environmental Health Japan, Japan — overall SLR (all topics) 5664
  15. Robert Landewé — Amsterdam University Medical Center, Netherlands — overall SLR (all topics) 3615
  16. Gerd R Burmester — Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Germany — overall SLR (all topics) 4782
  17. Philip G Conaghan — Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, United Kingdom — overall SLR (all topics) 3633
  18. Paul Emery — Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, United Kingdom — overall SLR (all topics) 3400
  19. Tore K Kvien — Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Norway — overall SLR (all topics) 3349
  20. Nicola Dalbeth — University of Auckland, New Zealand — overall SLR (all topics) 2827
  21. Iain B Mc Innes — University of Glasgow, United Kingdom — overall SLR (all topics) 3063
  22. Atul Deodhar — Oregon Health & Science University, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 3153
  23. Tom W J Huizinga — Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands — overall SLR (all topics) 4312
  24. Tsutomu Takeuchi — Jichi Medical University Saitama Medical Center, Japan — overall SLR (all topics) 3692
  25. Walter P Maksymowych — South Texas Arthritis Care Center, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 2976