How the Top 50 is scored
Seven public signals, fixed weights, every point traceable to a source. The list is an opinion built from the record, and it changes when the record does.
25
Publications
20
Teaching
15
Society leadership
20
Newsweek 2026
10
Credentials
10
Rhinoplasty focus
5
Public work
5
Search visibility
Weights and rules
| Signal | Points | Rule | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Publications | 25 | Rhinoplasty papers in the core journals (PRS, ASJ, APS, PRS-GO, Facial Plast Surg, FPSAM, JAMA FPS, Arch FPS): 50+ → 25; 25+ → 20; 10+ → 15; 5+ → 10; 1+ → 5 | PubMed |
| Teaching | 20 | Dallas Rhinoplasty Meeting chair 20 / faculty 15; Rhinoplasty Society visiting professor 8; Baker Gordon faculty 5; AAFPRS fellowship director 4 / co-director 2; and the published educator record, 12 max: an invited discussion or commentary 3 each, a Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics issue 1 each, a review 1 per two. Capped at 20 | Meeting programmes, fellowship pages, PubMed |
| Society leadership | 15 | Rhinoplasty Society president 10, officer 8, member-at-large 6, lifetime award 10, Stal award 5, member 3; capped at 15. A general plastic surgery office does not score. The leadership has to be under the umbrella of rhinoplasty | Society pages |
| Newsweek 2026 | 20 | Rank 1–10 → 20; 11–20 → 16; 21–30 → 12; awarded 31–215 → 8 | Newsweek/Statista |
| Credentials | 10 | Board named on the practice site (ABPS, ABFPRS, ABOto-HNS) 5; fellowship named (rhinoplasty, facial plastic, aesthetic) 5 | Practice site |
| Rhinoplasty focus | 10 | Rhinoplasty pages 3; revision page 3; gallery 2; rhinoplasty in domain or title 2 | Practice site |
| Public work | 5 | YouTube 3; Instagram 1; video content 1 | Practice site |
| Search visibility | 5 | Position for “best rhinoplasty surgeon [city]” in the home metro. Pending; not yet scored. | SERP data |
Eligibility
- Practices in the United States.
- A signal dated 2024–2026: Newsweek 2026, a current Rhinoplasty Society listing or board seat, 2026 meeting faculty, a fellowship directorship, or a rhinoplasty paper since 2011.
- Not retired or closed. Excluded with a quoted source: Mark Constantian (retired 2023), Rollin Daniel (closed 2016), Geoffrey Keyes (retired), Ronald Gruber (site offline, listing closed).
Known limits
- PubMed author matching uses surname and first initial; common surnames were re-run with an affiliation filter.
- Practice-site signals are text matches on public pages. Institutional profile pages carry less marketing text, so academic surgeons score lower on focus and public work than private-practice surgeons with the same output.
- Three practice sites could not be read by machine. Five were read by hand with quotes kept.
- The Baker Gordon Symposium is an aesthetic-surgery meeting, not a rhinoplasty meeting; it is weighted at 5.
Disclaimer
This is our opinion of the public record on the date shown, not a measure of surgical outcomes, and it changes as the record does. A surgeon’s absence from the list means nothing about that surgeon.
Sources
- Newsweek/Statista, America's Best Plastic Surgeons 2026, Rhinoplasty.
- The Rhinoplasty Society: board, past presidents, awards, public directory.
- AAFPRS Foundation fellowship program directors.
- Dallas Rhinoplasty Meeting 2026 faculty; Baker Gordon Symposium 2026 program.
- ASPS and The Aesthetic Society presidents.
- PubMed (NCBI E-utilities), queries recorded per surgeon.
- Each surgeon's practice website, read September 2026.