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. 2022 Apr 20;19(9):5011.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph19095011.

Current Status and Trends in Research on Caries Diagnosis: A Bibliometric Analysis

María Melo  1 , José Luis Sanz  1 , Leopoldo Forner  1 , Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Lozano  2 , Julia Guerrero-Gironés  2
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Current Status and Trends in Research on Caries Diagnosis: A Bibliometric Analysis

María Melo et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

There are a wide variety of devices for the detection and diagnosis of caries from the initial stages. The purpose of this study was to perform a bibliometric study on research regarding caries diagnosis by identifying the contributing researchers, organizations, countries or regions, journals, and to provide an analysis of keyword co-occurrence and co-authorship networks. An advanced search was performed in Web of Science (WOS) Core Collection database, using the terms "caries diagno*" and "caries detect*" in the "topic" field, from 2013 to 2021. Bibliometric parameters were extracted using WOS's analyze results tools and VOSviewer software. A total of 816 documents were identified. Most of them, (61.3%) are included in "Dentistry Oral Surgery & Medicine" category within WOS. The largest scientific production on the subject is observed between 2018 and 2021, with a total of 344 records. The most productive author is Mendes FM, followed by Braga MM. The journal with the most articles published on caries diagnosis is Caries Research, with 55 articles (6.74%). The terms with the highest co-occurrence refer to the validity of diagnostic methods, tools or principles used in diagnosis or general aspects related to caries detection and diagnosis.

Keywords: bibliometric; caries detection; caries diagnosis; citations; scientometric analysis.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Study protocol.
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Temporal evolution of the number of publications and total number of citations.
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Research areas of the journals with the largest number of publications on the subject under study. The vertical axis shows the categories, while the horizontal axis shows the number of publications.
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Journals with at least 10 publications with the topic “caries diagno*” or “caries detect*”.
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(A) Authors with at least ten publications on caries diagnosis and the collaborative relationship between them. (B) Authors with at least five publications on caries diagnosis and collaborative relationship between them. Bubble size indicates number of documents. Link length indicates closeness of collaboration.
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Institutions with the highest number of publications.
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Entities that finance the largest number of publications.
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Map of terms appearing at least ten times. Bubble size indicates occurring frequency of terms as keywords in publications. The color of the bubble indicates the period in which terms are most used, choosing the time period where the greatest chromatic diversity is found.
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