Anand Gurleen Kaur, Ramesh Shewta, Karuveettil Vineetha, Sudheer Sandra, Riya Justus Rita, D Sabarinath
Department of Public Health Dentistry, Amrita School of Dentistry, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, IND.
Cureus. 2024 Nov 8;16(11):e73307. doi: 10.7759/cureus.73307. eCollection 2024 Nov.
This bibliometric analysis aimed to identify trends among the top 100 most cited qualitative research articles in dentistry. Articles were retrieved from the Scopus database and screened based on predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria. The final set of 100 articles was then analyzed in R Studio (RStudio Team, Boston, MA) to assess performance metrics, including publication and citation trends, citation-publication relationships, and science mapping. Science mapping offers insights into citation analysis, co-citation analysis, bibliographic coupling, co-word analysis, and co-authorship patterns. The top 100 articles had citation counts ranging from 11 to 606, with publication dates spanning from 1998 to 2021, and were coauthored by 351 individuals across 35 different journals. Most papers originated from Europe, followed by North America and Asia. The United Kingdom contributed the most articles (27), and BMC Oral Health was the most frequently cited journal. Among the 351 authors, Hallberg U. was the most cited. The predominant study design was descriptive quantitative. Keyword analysis revealed diverse thematic groupings, reflecting the broad scope of qualitative research in dentistry. Key trending topics included dental care, attitude to health, child, health behavior, dental caries, clinical competence, psychological aspects, and motivation. This bibliometric evaluation provides an overview of qualitative research trends in dentistry and offers valuable insights to guide future research, emphasizing the need for high-quality qualitative studies across various dental fields to strengthen evidence-based practice.
这项文献计量分析旨在确定牙科领域被引用次数最多的100篇定性研究文章的趋势。文章从Scopus数据库中检索，并根据预先定义的纳入和排除标准进行筛选。然后在R Studio（RStudio团队，马萨诸塞州波士顿）中对最终的100篇文章进行分析，以评估绩效指标，包括发表和被引用趋势、引用与发表关系以及科学图谱。科学图谱提供了对引文分析、共被引分析、文献耦合、共词分析和共同作者模式的见解。这100篇顶级文章的被引用次数在11至606次之间，发表日期从1998年到2021年，由来自35种不同期刊的351位作者共同撰写。大多数论文来自欧洲，其次是北美和亚洲。英国贡献的文章最多（27篇），《BMC口腔健康》是被引用频率最高的期刊。在351位作者中，哈尔贝格·U.被引用次数最多。主要的研究设计是描述性定量研究。关键词分析揭示了不同的主题分组，反映了牙科定性研究的广泛范围。主要的热门话题包括牙科护理、对健康的态度、儿童、健康行为、龋齿、临床能力、心理方面和动机。这项文献计量评估概述了牙科定性研究趋势，并提供了有价值的见解以指导未来研究，强调了在各个牙科领域开展高质量定性研究以加强循证实践的必要性。
