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Half‐century of Dental Public Health research: bibliometric analysis of world scientific trends
Author(s) -
Celeste Roger Keller,
Broadbent Jonathan M.,
Moyses Samuel Jorge
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
community dentistry and oral epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.061
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1600-0528
pISSN - 0301-5661
DOI - 10.1111/cdoe.12249
Subject(s) - scopus , medicine , socioeconomic status , public health , promotion (chess) , health promotion , oral health , medline , medical education , family medicine , library science , population , environmental health , political science , nursing , politics , computer science , law
Abstract Objectives To describe the characteristics of Dental Public Health ( DPH ) scientific publications within core DPH journals over time and to compare DPH journals with DPH content from other journal types. Methods The Scopus database was used to identify DPH ‐relevant articles published from 1965 to 2014 in three core DPH journals ( DPHJ s) and from 2005 to 2014 in Dental Journals ( DJ s), Public Health ( PHJ s) and General Journals ( GJ s). To identify DPH ‐relevant articles, a search strategy with words about oral health and public health was applied to each group of journals. Research themes were created by grouping similar keywords to report changes in the focus of articles over time. The most productive journals, countries, institutions and authors were also estimated for each set of journals. Results In 2005–2014, 60 297 articles were identified, of which 2.7% in DPHJ s, 10.4% from PHJ s, 38.2% from GJ s and 48.7% from DJ s. DPH ‐relevant articles published in the core DPHJ s, DJ s and PHJ s tended to share a strong emphasis on dental caries, healthcare/services research on children and adolescents. Over time, the focus in the DPHJ s has increased towards health behaviour/promotion/education, quality of life and socioeconomic factors. In the last decade, those themes were more frequent in DPH journals than in the other groups. Conclusions DPH research published in DPHJ s had some unique features and greater focus on the themes of quality of life, socioeconomic factors and health behaviour/education/promotion than other groups of journals.