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Top KOL Ranking

As of October 2026, according to ScienceLeadR, the leading experts on Spine are Michael G Fehlings (Toronto Western Hospital, Canada), Alexander R Vaccaro (Rothman Orthopaedics, United States) and Daniel M Sciubba (Northwell Health, United States), ranked by scientific expertise on this MeSH term among 104,650 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 Spine key opinion leaders

Top Spine 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 104,650 experts matching this MeSH term.

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  1. Michael G Fehlings — Toronto Western Hospital, Canada — overall SLR (all topics) 5606
  2. Alexander R Vaccaro — Rothman Orthopaedics, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 5121
  3. Daniel M Sciubba — Northwell Health, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 2555
  4. Christopher I Shaffrey — Duke University Hospital, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 3406
  5. Virginie Lafage — Hospital for Special Surgery, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 3672
  6. Christopher P Ames — UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 3215
  7. Alan H Daniels — Rhode Island Hospital, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 3234
  8. Shiro Imagama — Nagoya University, Japan — overall SLR (all topics) 3791
  9. Tony L Yaksh — University of California, San Diego, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 3141
  10. Armin Curt — University of Zurich, Switzerland — overall SLR (all topics) 1648
  11. Gregory D Schroeder — Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 2570
  12. Ziya L Gokaslan — Rhode Island Hospital, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 2113
  13. Christopher K Kepler — Rothman Orthopaedics, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 2470
  14. Andrei V Krassioukov — Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Canada — overall SLR (all topics) 1663
  15. Justin S Smith — University of Virginia Health System, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 2857
  16. Nicholas Theodore — Johns Hopkins Hospital, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 1951
  17. Yukihiro Matsuyama — Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan — overall SLR (all topics) 2201
  18. Seiji Ohtori — Chiba University, Japan — overall SLR (all topics) 3422
  19. Shay Bess — Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 2240
  20. Mohamad Bydon — Mayo Clinic (United States, Rochester), United States — overall SLR (all topics) 2383
  21. Morio Matsumoto — National Hospital Organization, Japan — overall SLR (all topics) 2674
  22. James S Harrop — Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 1799
  23. Praveen V Mummaneni — University of California San Francisco Medical Center, United States — overall SLR (all topics) 2174
  24. Arjun Sahgal — Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Canada — overall SLR (all topics) 3680
  25. Brian K Kwon — Vancouver Spine Surgery Institute, Canada — overall SLR (all topics) 1313