“…Bibliometric performance based on citation data has been widely analysed in various fields of Dentistry. Previously published bibliometric studies have described the most-cited (also highly or top-cited) articles published in the field of Dentistry (Feijoo et al, 2014;Yeung & Ho, 2019), in specific dental journals (Ahmad et al, 2019a(Ahmad et al, , 2019b(Ahmad et al, , 2020aAhmad & Elgamal, 2020;Ullah et al, 2019) or subareas, such as Prosthodontics (Praveen et al, 2020), Paediatric Dentistry (Patil et al, 2020), Endodontics (Yılmaz et al, 2019), dental caries (Arshad et al, 2020), Orthodontics (Tarazona et al, 2018), dental implantology (Fardi et al, 2017), Periodontology (Ahmad et al, 2020b;Faggion et al, 2017), Oral Pathology and Medicine (Yang & Liu, 2019) or Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Aslam-Pervez & Lubek, 2018). In Endodontology, bibliometric studies are of importance because they provide an overview of the publications in a particular field and assess scientific and clinical activity by calculating bibliometric indicators that provide valuable information on the quantity and quality of publications.…”