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However, there is currently a limited understanding of the research strengths and scope of this workforce and this is a barrier to capacity building efforts and to evaluating the impacts of these efforts. This study sought to understand and summarise the current research metrics of the top 50 research experts in Australia identified through Expertscape. Publicly available publication, citation and funded research grants metrics, were extracted from Expertscape, Scopus, SciVal, Dimensions.ai and researcher profiles and summarised. The results indicate that Australian Feeding and Eating Disorder (FED) researchers are competitive internationally, and are spread across professional disciplines with the highest representation from psychology. Expertscape researcher rank was associated with higher numbers of publications in feeding and eating disorders overall, but not to total outputs, field-weighted citation impact (FWCI), or number of publications in top percentile journals. 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