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Most active experts in Lupus (SLE)

2026 edition, data as of October 26, 2026

284 key opinion leaders in the directory are tagged to Lupus (SLE). The tables below rank them by one public measure each: registered trials, citations, NIH awards and congress contributions. Each is a count from a named source, not a judgment about the person, and every row links a profile where the count can be checked.

Most registered trials

Registered clinical trials in this indication on which the person is a listed investigator, counted from ClinicalTrials.gov. 59 of the 284 people tagged to this indication have this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov.

#Experttrials
1Cynthia AranowFeinstein Institutes for Medical Research, NY9 trials
2Jill BuyonNYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY9 trials
3Michelle PetriJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD9 trials
4Joan MerrillOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK6 trials
5Meggan MackayFeinstein Institutes for Medical Research (Northwell Health), NY6 trials
6Diane KamenMedical University of South Carolina (MUSC), SC6 trials
7David WofsyUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA6 trials
8Rosalind Ramsey-GoldmanIL5 trials
9Betty DiamondFeinstein Institutes for Medical Research (Northwell Health), NY5 trials
10Candace FeldmanBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA4 trials
11Victoria WerthUniversity of Pennsylvania, PA4 trials
12Anca AskanaseHospital for Special Surgery (HSS), NY4 trials
13Kenneth KalunianUniversity of California, San Diego, CA4 trials
14Megan ClowseDuke University School of Medicine, NC4 trials
15Hermine BrunnerCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OH4 trials
16Judith JamesOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK3 trials
17James OatesSC2 trials
18Bevra HahnCA2 trials
19Cristina ArriensOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK2 trials
20Nancy OlsenPenn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, PA2 trials
21Mariana KaplanNational Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), MI2 trials
22Eliza ChakravartyOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK2 trials
23Leslie CroffordVanderbilt University Medical Center, TN2 trials
24Elena MassarottiBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA2 trials
25David KarpUT Southwestern Medical Center, TX2 trials

Most cited

Citations to the person's whole published record in OpenAlex, not only their work in this indication, among the people with at least two registered trials in it. 24 of the 284 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 24 highest are listed. Source: OpenAlex.

#Expertcitations
1Scott AntoniaDuke University, FL77,531 citations
2Michelle PetriJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD75,492 citations
3Joan MerrillOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK39,654 citations
4Jill BuyonNYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY39,277 citations
5Mariana KaplanNational Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), MI32,314 citations
6Betty DiamondFeinstein Institutes for Medical Research (Northwell Health), NY32,228 citations
7Victoria WerthUniversity of Pennsylvania, PA31,737 citations
8Diane KamenMedical University of South Carolina (MUSC), SC28,978 citations
9Judith JamesOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK28,508 citations
10Kenneth KalunianUniversity of California, San Diego, CA26,876 citations
11Leslie CroffordVanderbilt University Medical Center, TN24,927 citations
12Cynthia AranowFeinstein Institutes for Medical Research, NY24,081 citations
13Andras PerlSUNY Upstate Medical University, NY21,719 citations
14Bevra HahnCA21,188 citations
15Hermine BrunnerCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OH18,500 citations
16Nancy OlsenPenn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, PA17,545 citations
17David WofsyUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA16,568 citations
18Anca AskanaseHospital for Special Surgery (HSS), NY11,599 citations
19David KarpUT Southwestern Medical Center, TX10,246 citations
20Megan ClowseDuke University School of Medicine, NC9,177 citations
21Meggan MackayFeinstein Institutes for Medical Research (Northwell Health), NY8,182 citations
22Candace FeldmanBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA4,925 citations
23Elena MassarottiBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA4,811 citations
24Cristina ArriensOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK1,839 citations

Most NIH awards

NIH awards on the person's record in NIH RePORTER, across all of their funded work, among the people with at least two registered trials in this indication. 24 of the 284 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 24 highest are listed. Source: NIH RePORTER.

#Expertawards
1Betty DiamondFeinstein Institutes for Medical Research (Northwell Health), NY36 awards
2Judith JamesOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK27 awards
3Jill BuyonNYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY23 awards
4Hermine BrunnerCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OH14 awards
5Rosalind Ramsey-GoldmanIL13 awards
6Michelle PetriJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD13 awards
7David KarpUT Southwestern Medical Center, TX11 awards
8Andras PerlSUNY Upstate Medical University, NY11 awards
9Diane KamenMedical University of South Carolina (MUSC), SC9 awards
10James OatesSC8 awards
11Victoria WerthUniversity of Pennsylvania, PA7 awards
12Scott AntoniaDuke University, FL7 awards
13David WofsyUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA7 awards
14Bevra HahnCA6 awards
15Mariana KaplanNational Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), MI5 awards
16Joan MerrillOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK4 awards
17Cynthia AranowFeinstein Institutes for Medical Research, NY4 awards
18Megan ClowseDuke University School of Medicine, NC4 awards
19Meggan MackayFeinstein Institutes for Medical Research (Northwell Health), NY4 awards
20Nancy OlsenPenn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, PA3 awards
21Eliza ChakravartyOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK3 awards
22Leslie CroffordVanderbilt University Medical Center, TN3 awards
23Candace FeldmanBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA2 awards
24Kenneth KalunianUniversity of California, San Diego, CA2 awards

Most congress contributions

Congress abstracts and presentations attributed to the person and verified by DOI, across every meeting the directory tracks, among the people with at least two registered trials in this indication. 5 of the 284 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 5 highest are listed. Source: Congress abstracts, DOI-verified.

#Expertcontributions
1Scott AntoniaDuke University, FL143 contributions
2Michelle PetriJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD3 contributions
3Betty DiamondFeinstein Institutes for Medical Research (Northwell Health), NY2 contributions
4Mariana KaplanNational Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), MI1 contribution
5Anca AskanaseHospital for Special Surgery (HSS), NY1 contribution

Emerging

8 of the 284 carry the Emerging flag: publication and trial activity rising over the recent three years, in the top ten percent for growth among specialty peers at a similar career stage. Listed A to Z, not ranked; the flag is a yes or nothing, never a score. How the flag is computed.

Grant CannonHuntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, UT
Andrea FavaJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD
Daniel HuckBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA
Jason KolfenbachUniversity of Colorado Denver, CO
Jana LovellNational Institutes of Health, MD
Brian SkaugThe University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX
Christopher StriebichUniversity of Colorado Anschutz, CO
Anuradha WadhwaLoyola University Medical Center, IL

How these tables are computed

The cohort is every profile in the directory tagged to Lupus (SLE), from the person's registered trials and published research. Only indications with at least 200 tagged people get a page; a smaller cohort would say more about the tag than about the people in it. Each table sorts the cohort by one count, highest first, with no weighting, no blending and no editorial pass. Ties are broken by the profile's stable internal id so the same counts always give the same order. A person with no count on record is left out of that table, not ranked last.

Citations, NIH awards and congress contributions are counts over a person's whole record, not their work in this indication alone, so those three tables are limited to the indication's investigators: people with at least 2 registered trials in it. Without that rule the most cited people in a cohort are the ones whose careers span many diseases, which is a fact about their careers, not about this field. The registered-trials table is the indication-scoped count itself and has no such limit.

The counts are recomputed on every publish and the page carries the date of the publish it was built from. Previous editions are superseded, not archived.

What is deliberately absent

Reported industry payments are on every profile but are not a table here: a count of payers is a fact, and ranking people by it reads as a judgment. Prescribing volume is part of the paid workspace. The directory's influence tier is a judgment and never orders a public page. Sources and methodology.

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