Highly cited dental articles and their authors: An evaluation of publication and citation characteristics

Abstract

Aim In the present study, we aimed to identify and analyze the characteristics of highly cited articles in dentistry. Methods All articles belonging to Web of Science category of “dentistry, oral surgery and medicine” published until 2016 were analyzed. The bibliometric data of the highly cited articles were evaluated. The Y‐index was applied to assess authors’ publication potential. Altmetric scores were recorded from Dimensions, a free online database. Results There were 3666 highly cited dentistry articles published in dental journals. Half of them were published in seven leading journals in their specialties. The major contributing countries were the USA, Sweden, the UK, and Switzerland. The highly cited articles were written by 3.7 authors on average. Jan Lindhe had the largest number of highly cited articles, whereas David H. Pashley had the highest potential to publish highly cited articles in dentistry. Conclusions Highly cited articles were distributed among various dental specialties, and the most productive periods were the late 1990s and the early 2000s. The Y‐index gave dimensional details of the prolific authors. The current analysis was based on data extracted from Web of Science. Results could be different if data were extracted from other databases, such as Google Scholar.

Highly cited papers in dental medicine based on essential science indicators

“…The characteristics of the analyzed set of HCPs are mostly in line with the verified features of the ESI highly cited articles in terms of a large number of authors and significant international cooperation [4,27]. More than half of analyzed HCPs (63.1%) were written by three or more authors, with an average number of authors per paper being 4.14, which is slightly higher compared to other studies exploring the most cited documents in dentistry [6].…”

“…Bibliometric performance based on citation data has been widely analyzed in various fields of dentistry. Previously published bibliometric studies have described the most cited (also labeled as highly or top-cited) articles published in the field of Dentistry, Oral Surgery and Medicine [5,6] or in specific journal/s [7,8] or subareas, such as prosthodontics [9], pediatric dentistry [10], endodontics [11], orthodontics [12], dental implantology [13], periodontology [14], oral pathology and medicine [15], or oral and maxillofacial surgery [16]. However, in all these studies, the term highly cited paper refers to articles whose total number of received citations, mostly from the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection, is equal to or higher than 100, regardless of the papers' publication date.…”

A bibliometric analysis of highly cited publications in Web of Science category of emergency medicine

“…A total of 1,026 highly cited publications (0.95% of 107,437 documents in the category of emergency medicine in SCI-EXPANDED) with TC 2019 ≥ 100 were found including 898 highly cited articles (0.95% of 68,694 articles). It was reported that the percentage of highly cited documents was 0.68% in the category of health care sciences and services [6], and the percentage of highly cited articles in the category of dentistry, oral surgery and medicine was 1.8% [9]. To have scientific results, which can be repeated and checked, Ho's group proposed citation indicator TC year , the number of citations from Web of Science Core Collection since publication year to the end of the most recent year [11,12] and citations per publication (CPP year = TC year /TP) [14].…”

“…The Y -index combines two parameters (j, h) to assess both the publication potential and the characteristics of the contribution as a single index. This indicator has also been applied to compare highly cited authors in Web of Science categories of health care sciences and services [6] and dentistry, oral surgery and medicine [9]. The Y -index is defined as [5,10]…”

“…Highly cited papers can be useful indicators for identifying 'worldclass' research [4]. Highly cited publications in a Web of Science category in Science Citation Index Expanded were investigated including chemical engineering [5], health care sciences and services [6], horticulture [7], environmental engineering [8], dentistry, oral surgery and medicine [9], and materials science-related categories [10]. Approximately a decade between the year of data collection and the peak output of highly cited papers were generally found.…”