Campo A-O, Valderrama P, Bravo M, Baca A
Department of Information and Communication Faculty of Communication and Documentation Colegio Máximo. Campus de Cartuja s/n University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bucal. 2025 Jan 1;30(1):e97-e106. doi: 10.4317/medoral.26845.
This study aimed to identify and analyze the most influential Mouth Breathing (MB) articles in children and adolescents with the highest relative citation rates (RCRs), through bibliometric and altmetric analysis, from 2002 to 2021.
On March 27, 2023 a PubMed search was conducted to detect papers published about MB. From a total of 826 documents, the article data were downloaded from iCite database. The 100 articles with the highest RCRs were selected for analysis in terms of RCR, citations, altmetric attention score, year, journal, first author (name, institution, country), subfield and design of study. The key words were analyzed using Vosviewer.
Among the 100 articles, there were no differences between the two periods analyzed for RCR and AAS values, yet 2002-11 was more cited than 2012-2021. There was no correlation between RCR and AAS; but there was with citations. Brazil was the most cited country (n=30). The articles were published in 48 journals pertaining to 8 categories, 44 corresponding to Dentistry. The most frequent study design was the cross-sectional (n=48). Although all subfields were well represented, the most frequent ones were "treatment", "sleep disorders" and "clinical characteristics/cephalometry". The most prominent keywords were "malocclusion" and "cephalometry".
Using RCR, a time- and field-normalized metric, one can identify influential articles in MB, a multidisciplinary research field of great importance for orthodontics. Because this bibliometric approach reduces the time from publication to the detection of an article´s importance for readers, it could be a valid alternative to using citation counts.
本研究旨在通过文献计量学和替代计量学分析，识别并分析2002年至2021年间儿童和青少年中相对引用率（RCR）最高的最具影响力的口呼吸（MB）相关文章。
2023年3月27日在PubMed上进行检索，以检测发表的关于MB的论文。从总共826篇文献中，文章数据从iCite数据库下载。选择RCR最高的100篇文章，从RCR、引用次数、替代计量关注度得分、年份、期刊、第一作者（姓名、机构、国家）、子领域和研究设计等方面进行分析。使用Vosviewer对关键词进行分析。
在这100篇文章中，两个分析时间段的RCR和AAS值没有差异，但2002 - 2011年的被引用次数比2012 - 2021年更多。RCR与AAS之间没有相关性；但与引用次数有相关性。巴西是被引用次数最多的国家（n = 30）。这些文章发表在48种属于8个类别的期刊上，其中44种与牙科相关。最常见的研究设计是横断面研究（n = 48）。虽然所有子领域都有很好的体现，但最常见的是“治疗”、“睡眠障碍”和“临床特征/头影测量”。最突出的关键词是“错牙合畸形”和“头影测量”。
使用RCR（一种时间和领域标准化的指标），可以识别MB领域中有影响力的文章，MB是正畸学中一个非常重要的多学科研究领域。由于这种文献计量学方法减少了从文章发表到读者发现其重要性的时间，它可能是使用引用次数的一种有效替代方法。
