Top experts by indication / Rheumatology/Immunology
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.
| # | Expert | trials |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cynthia AranowFeinstein Institutes for Medical Research, NY | 9 trials |
| 2 | Jill BuyonNYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY | 9 trials |
| 3 | Michelle PetriJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD | 9 trials |
| 4 | Joan MerrillOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK | 6 trials |
| 5 | Meggan MackayFeinstein Institutes for Medical Research (Northwell Health), NY | 6 trials |
| 6 | Diane KamenMedical University of South Carolina (MUSC), SC | 6 trials |
| 7 | David WofsyUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA | 6 trials |
| 8 | Rosalind Ramsey-GoldmanIL | 5 trials |
| 9 | Betty DiamondFeinstein Institutes for Medical Research (Northwell Health), NY | 5 trials |
| 10 | Candace FeldmanBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA | 4 trials |
| 11 | Victoria WerthUniversity of Pennsylvania, PA | 4 trials |
| 12 | Anca AskanaseHospital for Special Surgery (HSS), NY | 4 trials |
| 13 | Kenneth KalunianUniversity of California, San Diego, CA | 4 trials |
| 14 | Megan ClowseDuke University School of Medicine, NC | 4 trials |
| 15 | Hermine BrunnerCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OH | 4 trials |
| 16 | Judith JamesOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK | 3 trials |
| 17 | James OatesSC | 2 trials |
| 18 | Bevra HahnCA | 2 trials |
| 19 | Cristina ArriensOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK | 2 trials |
| 20 | Nancy OlsenPenn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, PA | 2 trials |
| 21 | Mariana KaplanNational Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), MI | 2 trials |
| 22 | Eliza ChakravartyOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK | 2 trials |
| 23 | Leslie CroffordVanderbilt University Medical Center, TN | 2 trials |
| 24 | Elena MassarottiBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA | 2 trials |
| 25 | David KarpUT Southwestern Medical Center, TX | 2 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.
| # | Expert | citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scott AntoniaDuke University, FL | 77,531 citations |
| 2 | Michelle PetriJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD | 75,492 citations |
| 3 | Joan MerrillOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK | 39,654 citations |
| 4 | Jill BuyonNYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY | 39,277 citations |
| 5 | Mariana KaplanNational Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), MI | 32,314 citations |
| 6 | Betty DiamondFeinstein Institutes for Medical Research (Northwell Health), NY | 32,228 citations |
| 7 | Victoria WerthUniversity of Pennsylvania, PA | 31,737 citations |
| 8 | Diane KamenMedical University of South Carolina (MUSC), SC | 28,978 citations |
| 9 | Judith JamesOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK | 28,508 citations |
| 10 | Kenneth KalunianUniversity of California, San Diego, CA | 26,876 citations |
| 11 | Leslie CroffordVanderbilt University Medical Center, TN | 24,927 citations |
| 12 | Cynthia AranowFeinstein Institutes for Medical Research, NY | 24,081 citations |
| 13 | Andras PerlSUNY Upstate Medical University, NY | 21,719 citations |
| 14 | Bevra HahnCA | 21,188 citations |
| 15 | Hermine BrunnerCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OH | 18,500 citations |
| 16 | Nancy OlsenPenn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, PA | 17,545 citations |
| 17 | David WofsyUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA | 16,568 citations |
| 18 | Anca AskanaseHospital for Special Surgery (HSS), NY | 11,599 citations |
| 19 | David KarpUT Southwestern Medical Center, TX | 10,246 citations |
| 20 | Megan ClowseDuke University School of Medicine, NC | 9,177 citations |
| 21 | Meggan MackayFeinstein Institutes for Medical Research (Northwell Health), NY | 8,182 citations |
| 22 | Candace FeldmanBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA | 4,925 citations |
| 23 | Elena MassarottiBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA | 4,811 citations |
| 24 | Cristina ArriensOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK | 1,839 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.
| # | Expert | awards |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Betty DiamondFeinstein Institutes for Medical Research (Northwell Health), NY | 36 awards |
| 2 | Judith JamesOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK | 27 awards |
| 3 | Jill BuyonNYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY | 23 awards |
| 4 | Hermine BrunnerCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OH | 14 awards |
| 5 | Rosalind Ramsey-GoldmanIL | 13 awards |
| 6 | Michelle PetriJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD | 13 awards |
| 7 | David KarpUT Southwestern Medical Center, TX | 11 awards |
| 8 | Andras PerlSUNY Upstate Medical University, NY | 11 awards |
| 9 | Diane KamenMedical University of South Carolina (MUSC), SC | 9 awards |
| 10 | James OatesSC | 8 awards |
| 11 | Victoria WerthUniversity of Pennsylvania, PA | 7 awards |
| 12 | Scott AntoniaDuke University, FL | 7 awards |
| 13 | David WofsyUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA | 7 awards |
| 14 | Bevra HahnCA | 6 awards |
| 15 | Mariana KaplanNational Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), MI | 5 awards |
| 16 | Joan MerrillOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK | 4 awards |
| 17 | Cynthia AranowFeinstein Institutes for Medical Research, NY | 4 awards |
| 18 | Megan ClowseDuke University School of Medicine, NC | 4 awards |
| 19 | Meggan MackayFeinstein Institutes for Medical Research (Northwell Health), NY | 4 awards |
| 20 | Nancy OlsenPenn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, PA | 3 awards |
| 21 | Eliza ChakravartyOklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OK | 3 awards |
| 22 | Leslie CroffordVanderbilt University Medical Center, TN | 3 awards |
| 23 | Candace FeldmanBrigham and Women's Hospital, MA | 2 awards |
| 24 | Kenneth KalunianUniversity of California, San Diego, CA | 2 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.
| # | Expert | contributions |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scott AntoniaDuke University, FL | 143 contributions |
| 2 | Michelle PetriJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD | 3 contributions |
| 3 | Betty DiamondFeinstein Institutes for Medical Research (Northwell Health), NY | 2 contributions |
| 4 | Mariana KaplanNational Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), MI | 1 contribution |
| 5 | Anca AskanaseHospital for Special Surgery (HSS), NY | 1 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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