Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Thamar University, Thamar, Yemen.
Trend Research Centre, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan.
J Oral Rehabil. 2023 Nov;50(11):1217-1228. doi: 10.1111/joor.13544. Epub 2023 Jun 26.
Bruxism is an umbrella term that encompass a multidimensional spectrum of masticatory muscle activities.
The purpose of this study was to do a bibliometric analysis including citation performance in the research topic of bruxism, by using an innovative method including details of article title, author keyword, KeyWords Plus and abstracts.
The data were retrieved 2022-12-19 from the Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Core Collection, and the online version of the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) for studies published 1992 to 2021. To evaluate research trends, the distribution of keywords in the article title and author-selected keywords were used.
The search yielded 3233 documents in SCI-EXPANDED, of which 2598 were of the document-type 'articles' published in 676 journals. The analysis of the articles revealed that "bruxism/sleep bruxism," "electromyography," "temporomandibular disorders" and "masticatory muscles" are the most used keywords by the authors. Further, the most frequently cited study was published 9 years ago and handles the present definition of bruxism.
The most productive authors and those with the highest performance have some common features; they have several national and international collaborations; and they have published articles about the definition, aetiology/pathophysiology and prevalence of bruxism, all senior researchers in the field of TMD. Hopefully, based on this study, researchers and clinicians will have information to be stimulated to outline future research projects on bruxism-related aspects, and to initiate new international or multinational collaborations.
磨牙症是一个涵盖咀嚼肌活动多维谱的总称。
本研究的目的是通过一种创新的方法，包括文章标题、作者关键词、关键词 Plus 和摘要的详细信息，对磨牙症研究课题进行文献计量分析，包括引文表现。
数据于 2022 年 12 月 19 日从科睿唯安 Web of Science 核心合集检索获得，并从在线版科学引文索引扩展版（SCI-EXPANDED）检索了 1992 年至 2021 年发表的研究。为了评估研究趋势，使用了文章标题和作者选择关键词中的关键词分布。
SCI-EXPANDED 中搜索到 3233 篇文献，其中 2598 篇为发表在 676 种期刊上的“文章”文献类型。对文章的分析表明，“磨牙症/睡眠磨牙症”、“肌电图”、“颞下颌关节紊乱”和“咀嚼肌”是作者最常用的关键词。此外，引用率最高的研究是 9 年前发表的，处理了磨牙症的当前定义。
最有成效的作者和表现最好的作者有一些共同的特点；他们有一些国家和国际合作；并且发表了关于磨牙症的定义、病因/发病机制和流行率的文章，都是 TMD 领域的资深研究人员。希望基于这项研究，研究人员和临床医生将获得信息，以激发他们概述未来与磨牙症相关方面的研究项目，并发起新的国际或多国合作。
