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Review
. 2024 Apr 17;21(4):493.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph21040493.

World Trends in Dental Ergonomics Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Wita Anggraini  1 , Dewi Ranggaini  2 , Annisaa Putri Ariyani  1 , Indrani Sulistyowati  1
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Review

World Trends in Dental Ergonomics Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Wita Anggraini et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

Dental ergonomics provides an overview of dentists' work efficiency. The objective of this study was to obtain quantitative information and produce a visualization of the network of scientific publications on the topic of ergonomics and dentistry using bibliometric analysis. Data mining was conducted using the Scopus database and Boolean expressions (ergonom* AND dentist*) on 14 April 2023. Data extraction and analysis were performed using Open Refine version 3.5.2., VOSviewer version 1.6.17., VOSviewer thesaurus, Microsoft Excel, and Tableau Professional version 2020.1.2. A total of 682 documents were identified, with the United States having the largest number of documents and citations (89 documents, 1321 citations). Work, Dentistry Today, and the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health were the top three sources. Ergonomics and musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are two of the very prominent keywords, with research topics covering prevalence, causes, factors related to causes, prevention, assessment, rehabilitation, evaluation, and intervention. There was no research on ergonomic interventions that collaborated with human factors and ergonomics (HFE). We conclude that the trending topic of dental ergonomics research topics around the world is centered on MSDs. The future research challenge is to apply HFE science to improve the health, safety, efficiency, and quality of dentists' work.

Keywords: bibliometric analysis; dentist; ergonomic; musculoskeletal disorders.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Research methods and flow.
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Figure 2
The trend of a count of titles for the year. The year and count of titles filter the view. The year ranges from 1965 to 2023. The count of the title filter ranges from 1 to 43.
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Figure 3
Distribution of documents by country.
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Figure 4
Bibliometric analysis of sources.
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Figure 5
Bibliometric analysis of the number of source citations.
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Figure 6
Network visualization in the analysis of the most frequently cited documents. There are two groups, namely, the first group includes colorful circles, dominated by Alexopoulos E.C. (2004) with the largest circle, and the second group includes transparent gray circles, dominated by Al Wazzan K.A. (2001) with the largest circle. This coloring difference indicates no relationship between the first and second groups. Regarding circle size, the higher the citation weight, the bigger the circle [35].
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Figure 7
Co-authorship network visualization: in the red circle is the combined co-authorship of Clusters 1 and 3; meanwhile, in the green circle, the co-authorship of Cluster 2 is shown.
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Figure 8
Bibliometric analysis of co-authorship by country.
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Figure 9
Overlay visualization map of author keywords from the 1990s to 2023. The color of the circles ranges from blue, which indexes articles with publication years around 2012, to green for 2014–2016, to yellow for 2018, to the latest year, 2023 [39].
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