The 100 most‐cited papers in dentistry for individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders: Bibliometric profile of scientific research

Abstract

Aim To conduct a bibliometric analysis of the top 100 most‐cited papers in dentistry for individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders. Methods and Results A search strategy was constructed and conducted at the Web of Science in the category of “Dentistry, Oral Surgery, and Medicine”. The following information was extracted from each paper: title, authorship, year of publication, title of the journal, study subject, study design, age range of sample participants, type of disability, institution, country and continent, number of citations and citation density. Google Scholar and Scopus were used to crosscheck the number of citations of the most‐cited papers. The VOSviewer software was used to generate bibliometric network maps. The papers received 4453 citations in Web of Science, ranging from 30 to 106 citations. Most papers were published by the USA (35%), had an observational design (78%) and the main subject was epidemiology (31%). Most studies focused on individuals with Down syndrome (34%) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (18%) and were published in the Journal of Periodontology (10%) and the Pediatric Dentistry Journal (7%). Conclusion Most of the studies included in this review were characterized as epidemiological studies. Future research should focus on behavior guidance, dental education, and access to dental services.

Worldwide panorama of bruxism and patients with disabilities: a bibliometric analysis in PubMed (1965-2021)

“…There is a lack of high-level evidence in the studied topic, once case reports (28.1%), cross-sectional studies (24.54%) and literature reviews (12.72%) were the most frequent type of study designs. Similar results were observed in the literature regarding patients with disabilities (Kammer et al, 2021;Gutierrez et al, 2021) and bruxism (Ribeiro-Lages et al, 2021). The majority of observational studies related to bruxism investigated the etiology and risk or prevalence and incidence (Ribeiro-Lages et al, 2021), while for patients with disabilities epidemiology data about oral health status and prevalence of dental trauma were mentioned (Kammer et al, 2021).…”

“…However, the research field regarding people with disabilities has become important not only scientifically, but socially. As verified by Kammer et al (2021) in a bibliometric overview of the 100 most-cited papers in dentistry for individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders, all continents presented at least one article on the list (Antarctica excepted).…”

“…It is expected that developed countries lead publications ranking, since its budget to research and new technologies are high. Incredibly, Brazil, which is a developing country (according to the definition of the United Nations) appears among the top productive countries in several scientific literature (Liu et al, 2020;Kammer et al, 2021;Ribeir-Lages et al, 2021;Gutierrez et al, 2021). This data may indicate that scientific collaborations between researchers and institutions increase the possibilities of scientific production, although it is known that scientific collaborations network between Brazil and developed countries are below the average compared to other developing countries (Cross et al, 2017).…”

“…Global trends in several dentistry fields have been revealed by bibliometric analyses. Moreover, can be applied to determine top-cited articles in a field (Kammer et al, 2021) or even to honor a remarkable author (Santos et al, 2021).…”

“…As far as we know, there is only one published bibliometric analysis involving bruxism (Ribeiro-Lages et al, 2021) and two involving disabled people and dentistry (Kammer et a., 2021;Gutierrez et al, 2021). Publications on bruxism, especially in children and adolescents, have increased over past 20 years (Ribeiro-Lages et al, 2021).…”