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. 2016 Mar 1;21(2):e142-50.
doi: 10.4317/medoral.20756.

Dental research in Spain. A bibliometric analysis on subjects, authors and institutions (1993-2012)

F Bueno-Aguilera  1 , E Jiménez-Contreras, C Lucena-Martín, R Pulgar-Encinas
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Dental research in Spain. A bibliometric analysis on subjects, authors and institutions (1993-2012)

F Bueno-Aguilera et al. Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bucal. .

Abstract

Background: Bibliometrics is defined as the use of statistical methods in the analysis of a body of literature to reveal the historical development of subject fields and patterns of authorship, publication, and use. Our objective was to characterize Spanish scientific output in Dentistry through the analysis of Web of Science database in a 20-year period. By means of a bibliometric study documents were statistically analyzed using indicators that showed quantitative and qualitative aspects of the production. Specifically, time course of the scientific production within the time span was analysed, as were the journals where the article was published and the categories of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) in which they belong, thematic areas, authorship, and finally authors and institutions with the highest production in Spain.

Material and methods: By means of the design of a specific search strategy previously described in the scientific literature, we recovered all citable documents about Dentistry signed by Spanish researchers and included in the WoS database between 1993 and 2012.

Results: A total of 3006 documents fulfilled the search criteria, of which 2449 (81.5%) were published in journals within the category Dentistry Oral Surgery and Medicine and 557 (18.5%) within other categories of the JCR. During the four quinquenniums studied, the production increased quantitatively (8.6-fold) and qualitatively. Finally, the universities of Granada and Complutense of Madrid were the institutions with the highest production and most prolific authors.

Conclusions: The Spanish dental production sharply increased in the last two decades, reaching quantitative and qualitative levels similar to those of the other medical specialties in the country.

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Conflict of interest statement: The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exist.

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Figure 1
Time course in the number DOSM (Dentistry, Oral Surgery and Medicine) and non-DOSM documents, in absolute terms, during the study period.
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Figure 2
Time course by quinquenniums of the percentage of documents according to the number of co-authors of the overall sample.
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