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General Dentistry research

General Dentistry is a subfield of Dentistry. Science Explorer counts 30k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

In short: branch of medicine dealing with oral health and teeth.

Research works
30k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Topics
1
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+23%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
General Dentistry

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead General Dentistry research?

On research quality in 2022-now, the United States, China and the United Kingdom rank highest in General Dentistry. By volume, India and the United States publish the most (1.5k and 992 works in 2022-now).

By research quality, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States #1 all time 1.09× citation excellence · 1.58× journals · 100% breadth 11.7% top 10% · 864 works
  2. 2 China #2 all time 1.77× citation excellence · 1.20× journals · 100% breadth 20.9% top 10% · 440 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom #4 all time 1.16× citation excellence · 1.43× journals · 100% breadth 11.7% top 10% · 333 works
  4. 4 Saudi Arabia #8 all time 1.35× citation excellence · 0.32× journals · 100% breadth 14.6% top 10% · 395 works
  5. 5 Brazil #9 all time 0.74× citation excellence · 0.33× journals · 100% breadth 4.2% top 10% · 790 works
  6. 6 India #12 all time 0.42× citation excellence · 0.40× journals · 100% breadth 4.4% top 10% · 1.4k works
  7. 7 Türkiye #13 all time 0.98× citation excellence · 0.14× journals · 100% breadth 8.9% top 10% · 558 works
  8. 8 Iran #14 all time 1.02× citation excellence · 0.13× journals · 100% breadth 11.6% top 10% · 260 works
  9. 9 Egypt #16 all time 0.75× citation excellence · 0.09× journals · 100% breadth 10.1% top 10% · 242 works
  10. 10 Pakistan #15 all time 0.55× citation excellence · 0.10× journals · 100% breadth 4.8% top 10% · 312 works

The track on each row is that row's top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each place's own topics predict, adds its share of papers in the Nature Index journals, and counts output and breadth too.

Of 11 countries ranked in General Dentistry. Ranked on the quality score for 2022-now; the bracket is the all-time rank.

All countries ranked in General Dentistry

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 1.5k works
  2. 2 United States 992 works
  3. 3 Brazil 864 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 635 works
  5. 5 China 514 works
  6. 6 Saudi Arabia 438 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 387 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 335 works
  9. 9 Pakistan 335 works
  10. 10 Iran 278 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

India: 24.3%United States: 15.7%Brazil: 13.7%Türkiye: 10.1%6 others listed: 36.2%24%largest
India1,535 · 24.3%United States992 · 15.7%Brazil864 · 13.7%Türkiye635 · 10.1%6 others listed2,287 · 36.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead General Dentistry research?

Saveetha University (India) ranks first in General Dentistry on research quality in 2022-now, followed by .

By research quality, 2022-now

  1. 1 Saveetha University India · Chennai · #8 all time 6.9% top 10% · 120 works

The track on each row is that row's top-10% rate. The ranking itself is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each place's own topics predict, adds its share of papers in the Nature Index journals, and counts output and breadth too.

Of 1 institutions above the floor of 40 fractional works in General Dentistry.

Top 100 General Dentistry institutions

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Saveetha UniversityIndia 126 works
  2. 2 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 60 works
  3. 3 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 56 works
  4. 4 Kamineni Institute of Dental SciencesIndia 54 works
  5. 5 King Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia 48 works
  6. 6 Stomatology HospitalChina 44 works
  7. 7 Government Dental College and HospitalIndia 43 works
  8. 8 Cairo UniversityEgypt 42 works
  9. 9 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 42 works
  10. 10 Sichuan UniversityChina 35 works

Who are the leading researchers in General Dentistry?

Counting only their work in General Dentistry, Falk Schwendicke, Matthias Kern and Bart Van Meerbeek have the most papers in the world top 10% for their subfield and year beyond the 10% expected.

  1. 1 Falk Schwendicke Germany · #5,223 worldwide overall 18.9 of 36 papers here in the top 10%
  2. 2 Matthias Kern Germany · #139,423 worldwide overall 10.7 of 28 papers here in the top 10%
  3. 3 Bart Van Meerbeek Belgium · #68,550 worldwide overall 9.6 of 24 papers here in the top 10%
  4. 4 Walter Yu Hang Lam China · #62,721 worldwide overall 7.7 of 12 papers here in the top 10%
  5. 5 Marta Revilla‐León United States · #11,578 worldwide overall 9.2 of 20 papers here in the top 10%
  6. 6 Edward Chin Man Lo China · #40,437 worldwide overall 8.0 of 16 papers here in the top 10%
  7. 7 Mutlu Özcan Switzerland · #585,957 worldwide overall 15.6 of 66 papers here in the top 10%
  8. 8 Joachim Krois Germany · #18,512 worldwide overall 6.2 of 8 papers here in the top 10%
  9. 9 Hockin H.K. Xu United States · #9,086 worldwide overall 6.6 of 12 papers here in the top 10%
  10. 10 Tim Joda Switzerland · #43,255 worldwide overall 6.4 of 13 papers here in the top 10%

Ranked on their work in General Dentistry alone: how many more of their papers here reached the world top 10% for their subfield and year than the 10% expected, among 117,552 ranked researchers with a paper here. Each paper counts once, so many strong papers outrank one famous one, and a long record of ordinary papers does not climb. Identities come from OpenAlex author disambiguation, which occasionally merges or splits people.

Top 100 General Dentistry researchers

What are the most cited papers in General Dentistry?

The most cited paper in General Dentistry is "Persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces and their inactivation with biocidal agents" (Günter Kampf, Daniel Tödt, Stephanie Pfaender et al., 2020), with 3,919 citations. Next come "Temporal profiles of viral load in posterior oropharyngeal saliva samples and serum antibody responses during infection by SARS-CoV-2: an observational cohort study" (3,383) and "Epidemiology, causes, clinical manifestation and diagnosis, prevention and control of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during the early outbreak period: a scoping review" (2,486).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces and their inactivation with biocidal agents Günter Kampf, Daniel Tödt, Stephanie Pfaender et al. · Journal of Hospital Infection Open access 6 Feb 2020 3,919
2 Temporal profiles of viral load in posterior oropharyngeal saliva samples and serum antibody responses during infection by SARS-CoV-2: an observational cohort study Kelvin Kai‐Wang To et al. · The Lancet Infectious Diseases Open access 23 Mar 2020 3,383
3 Epidemiology, causes, clinical manifestation and diagnosis, prevention and control of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during the early outbreak period: a scoping review Sasmita Poudel Adhikari, Meng Sha, Yu-Ju Wu et al. · Infectious Diseases of Poverty Open access 17 Mar 2020 2,486
4 Technology-Enhanced Simulation for Health Professions Education David A. Cook, Rose A. Hatala, Ryan Brydges et al. · JAMA 6 Sep 2011 2,151
5 State of the art of zirconia for dental applications Isabelle L. Denry, J. Robert Kelly · Dental Materials 20 Jul 2007 2,125
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Where is General Dentistry research done?

The largest centres of General Dentistry research in 2022-now are Chennai (India), São Paulo (Brazil), Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) and Istanbul (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Medak, Nalgonda and Yangon.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ChennaiIndia 245 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 165 works
  3. 3 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 159 works
  4. 4 IstanbulTürkiye 132 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 117 works
  6. 6 KarachiPakistan 106 works
  7. 7 AnkaraTürkiye 96 works
  8. 8 CairoEgypt 87 works
  9. 9 TehranIran 82 works
  10. 10 BaghdadIraq 73 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MedakIN · 27.5 works113×
  2. NalgondaIN · 54.2 works95×
  3. YangonMM · 29.6 works27×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in General Dentistry than the world average.

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General Dentistry research by country

The best places for General Dentistry research inside each country, with that country's researchers and world standing.

Where is the best place to study General Dentistry?

Among universities, judged by research, King's College London, Universidade de São Paulo and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill score highest, combining standing in the field's ranking, citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 18.07%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →King's College LondonUniversidade de São …Saveetha UniversityUniversity of North …
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Standingthis field's institution ranking, three quarters all time and a quarter 2022-now
50%
Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
20%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
5%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
15%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
5%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
5%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreRank in field (all time)Top 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 69.0- (#1)11.2%3.3×25 -23.4%
2Universidade de São PauloBrazil 48.4- (#3)9.3%3.3×60 +23.2%
3University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 46.8- (#2)5.6%1.7×28 -25.9%
4Saveetha UniversityIndia 39.2#1 (#8)7.0%14.9×126 -25.9%
5University of Hong KongChina 35.4-34.6%3.6×30 +5.2%
6King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 35.3- (#6)13.5%6.4×56 +36.7%
7University of BernSwitzerland 33.1-43.5%2.5×12 +52.7%
8King Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia 32.5-18.1%10.0×48 +52.5%
9Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 32.2- (#4)7.4%4.2×31 -11.7%
10Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal UniversitySaudi Arabia 32.2-30.5%14.5×23 +9.6%

Universities only. The score blends standing (50%), citation excellence (20%), size (15%), specialisation (5%), growth (5%), international reach (5%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise. Standing is the score in this field's institution ranking, three quarters over all time and a quarter 2022-now; excellence averages the two windows too. Four years alone undercount fields such as AI, where many conference and arXiv papers from 2022 on carry no affiliation in the data.

Every institution in General Dentistry, country by country

Is General Dentistry research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Dental Research and COVID-19.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is General Dentistry as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.039% in 2024.

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Fractional works of General Dentistry over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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