Bibliometric analysis of articles published in ISI dental journals, 2007–2011

Bibliometric analysis of dental education journals, Web of Science, 2007-2013.

“…Besides, it relates to higher productivity in dental sciences by the United States, which widely leads the rankings at the level of publications in ISI journals 3 and Scopus [1][2] .…”

“…In recent years, there have been various bibliometric assessments in the dental field at international level [1][2][3] . This is a way of knowing quantitative and qualitative aspects of knowledge production in various scientific disciplines and generates data to design policies which promote scientific development 4 .…”

“…Currently, several databases are used as sources to carry out bibliometric assessments but two are most commonly used: Scopus and Web of Science (usually known as ISI); the latter being considered as the de facto standard 3 . The most commonly measures used in these evaluations are productivity (number of published articles) and the impact factor (number of citations an article attracts over a period of two years).…”

“…In general, these studies have shown that research is of a low level of evidence and concentrated in a few developed countries [5][6][7][8][9] , although some developing countries have placed in better positions in the past few years [1][2][3] .…”

Level of evidence and geographic origin of articles published in Chilean dental journals.

“…This somehow discredits the relevance and requirements made for internationalization, contradicting the evidence in favor of international cooperation for conducting dental research. However, this is clearly an opinion that requires further investigation in this area to be confirmed 12 .…”