The Contribution of the Brazilian Dental Journal to the Brazilian Scientific Research over 30 Years

Abstract

The Brazilian Dental Journal (BDJ) was officially launched in 1990, stimulated by the courage and boldness of researchers dedicated to teaching and research in dentistry. The journal was conceived in a worldwide coverage and universal language to allow publication of the results of Brazilian studies, which otherwise would not be accessible to the scientific dental community. In the year we celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of BDJ, this article presents a brief overview of Brazilian dental research and a bibliometric analysis of the articles published in this journal as a contribution to our readers and fellow researchers. The purpose was to identify the mot frequent categories of study, the most published areas of dentistry and BDJ’s top 50 most-cited articles in the Scopus and Google Scholar databases. A search was performed on all BDJ online issues published from 1990 to 2019. In this period, BDJ published 1,710 articles. Based on their distribution by category of study, 557 articles were in the basic research/dental materials area, 527 in the basic research/biology area and 280 in the clinical research area. Eight articles were cited more than 100 times in the Scopus database and 266 times in the Google Scholar database. Endodontics was the most published area. This overview of BDJ production over those 30 years allows establishing a profile of the characteristics, impact and trends of the published studies, as well as the journal’s contribution to the top 50 most-cited articles in the Scopus and Google Scholar databases.

Scientific production of an oral implantology journal: a 5-year bibliometric study

“…Bibliometric studies that focus on a single journal analysis are scarcer (Ahmad et al, 2019 ; Estrela et al, 2020 ; Alhajj et al, 2021 ), and very few studies have performed an exhaustive analysis of all published articles to assess trends (Aura-Tormos et al, 2019 ), as performed in the present study.…”

“…Several bibliometric studies in the field of dentistry have been published in recent decades (Ahmad et al, 2020 ; Yeung & Ho, 2019 ), some of which are related to oral implantology (Fardiet al, 2017 ; Lorusso et al, 2020 ; Tarazona et al, 2017b ), studying certain indicators, such as funding (Alonso-Arroyo et al, 2019 ), level of evidence (Wu et al, 2020 ), or geographic scope (Tarazona et al, 2017a ). However, bibliometric studies focused on the evolution and trends of the articles published in a single determined journal are scarce (Ahmadet al, 2019 ; Estrela et al, 2020 ; Alhajj et al, 2021 ) and none of the reviewed literature refers to implant-related journals.…”