Bibliometric Analysis of Three Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Journals

Abstract

Introduction Bibliometric analysis is a quantitative analysis that evaluates the publications in the aspect of subject, author, citations etc. In this study, we aimed to contribute to publication profile in the field of international oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS). For this reason we examined the studies published during 2016 in three chief journals (Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Journal of Craniomaxillofacial Surgery) of OMFS. Material And Methods This report was designed as an observational study. The articles, which were available at PubMed database and published by Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Journal of Craniomaxillofacial Surgery between in 2016, were included into study. Results Total of 594 studies were examined in this study. They consisted of 450 research, 78 review, 49 case report and 17 others (unclassified). The most studied subject was deformities and cosmetic surgery with 166 studies (%27,95). While only 13 studies (%2,18) had one author, 428 studies (%72,05) had ≤6 authors. More than one-third of all works are from the countries USA (%13,9), Germany (%10,88) and China (%10,21). However most of the studies origined from Europe with a rate of %42,79. Conclusion Our study showed that deformities-cosmetic surgery and oncology-reconstructive surgery were the main topics among the articles published by three chief oral and maxillofacial surgery journals in 2016. Wide interest area of oral and maxillofacial surgery allows to perform further bibliometric studies by using different parameters.

Keywords

• oral and maxillofacial surgery
• bibliometric
• review

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