Peri‐implantitis: A bibliometric network analysis of top 100 most‐cited research articles

Abstract

Background: Over the past decades, there has been an increase in research publications focusing on peri-implantitis. When facing limited healthcare resources, bibliometric analyses can guide researchers and funding parties toward areas where reallocation or more focus on research activity is warranted. The main objective of this study was to identify the trends of the top 100 cited articles on peri-implantitis research as the first study of its kind.Methods: A Web of Science search, using the keywords "peri-implantitis or periimplantitis" was built to create a database of the most-cited articles. Articles were ranked by citation count and screened by two independent reviewers. The bibliometric characteristics of the studies were gathered and analyzed using several bibliometric software. Author collaborations, author clusters, and keyword co-occurrence network analyses were also performed. The correlation between the citation count and the age of each article was tested. Results:The top 100 cited papers were published from 1994 to 2018 and the total citation counts ranged from 119 to 972 with 244.5 citations/paper on average. There was no correlation between the age of the articles and the citation count (p-value = 0.67).21% of the studies consisted of prospective clinical studies. 35% of the papers focused on treatment and prevention of peri-implantitis while 65% concerned epidemiology. The top three most prolific countries were Sweden (n = 31), Germany (n = 15), and Switzerland (n = 13). We found 12 authors who had greater than five publications on the list. Also, the most published journal was Clinical Oral Implants Research. Conclusion:This study provides insight into the characteristics and quality of the most highly cited peri-implantitis literature. This revealed a deficiency in terms of the number of studies on treatment strategies as well as a higher level of evidence studies among the most-impactful papers on peri-implantitis at the moment.

Five decades of research on immediate implant therapy: A modern bibliometric network analysis via Altmetric and level of evidence mapping

“…This is composed of combining bibliometric, Altmetric and LOE data, to unravel the horizons of the history of research on IIP. Particularly, this allowed for simultaneously analyzing and exploring both conventional metrics such as citation count and H‐index (Sabri & Wang, 2023) with more recently developed digital metrics such as the AAS which corresponds to the “attention” given to an article via social media and digital platforms. To the best of the authors' knowledge this is the first report of its kind, implementing this approach in the field of Periodontics and implant dentistry.…”

“…Bibliometric network analyses have become an increasingly popular approach to obtain the aforementioned parameters (Collins et al., 2021; Kocyigit & Akyol, 2021; Liao et al., 2018). There have been several such analyses in the field of implant dentistry (Borges et al., 2021, 2022; Chiang et al., 2018; Dini et al., 2022; Lorusso et al., 2020; Sabri & Wang, 2023; Tarazona‐Álvarez et al., 2021). In essence, this methodology subjects a variety of publication types and report media such as books, research articles, and/or communication media to statistical methods and analyses for a comprehensive outlook of a certain field or topic (Donthu et al., 2021).…”

“…In essence, this methodology subjects a variety of publication types and report media such as books, research articles, and/or communication media to statistical methods and analyses for a comprehensive outlook of a certain field or topic (Donthu et al., 2021). Moreover, it can be used to evaluate major developmental trends in a given area of research (Belter, 2018; Sabri & Wang, 2023).…”