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Dental Education, Practice, Research

Dental Education, Practice, Research is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 23k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the motivation, career choices, and professional expectations of dental students and practitioners. It covers topics such as gender differences in motivation, specialty preferences, leadership development, continuing professional development, work patterns, and future practice plans within the field of dentistry.

  • Motivation
  • Career Choice
  • Dental Students
  • Professional Expectations
  • Gender Differences
  • Specialty Preferences
  • Leadership Development
  • Continuing Professional Development
  • Work Patterns
  • Future Practice Plans
Research works
23k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Dental Education, Practice, Research

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

Which countries lead Dental Education, Practice, Research research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (755 and 661 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 755 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 661 works
  3. 3 India 296 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 149 works
  5. 5 Australia 134 works
  6. 6 Pakistan 116 works
  7. 7 Brazil 103 works
  8. 8 Saudi Arabia 89 works
  9. 9 Canada 84 works
  10. 10 Iran 83 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.

United States: 30.6%United Kingdom: 26.8%India: 12.0%Türkiye: 6.1%6 others listed: 24.6%31%largest
United States755 · 30.6%United Kingdom661 · 26.8%India296 · 12.0%Türkiye149 · 6.1%6 others listed608 · 24.6%

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

Which institutions lead Dental Education, Practice, Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, British Dental Association publishes the most Dental Education, Practice, Research research, followed by King's College London and University of Dental Medicine.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 British Dental AssociationUnited Kingdom 49 works
  2. 2 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 49 works
  3. 3 University of Dental MedicineMyanmar 29 works
  4. 4 BMJ Group (United Kingdom) 26 works
  5. 5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 23 works
  6. 6 University of LiverpoolUnited Kingdom 18 works
  7. 7 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 17 works
  8. 8 University of PlymouthUnited Kingdom 16 works
  9. 9 University of BristolUnited Kingdom 15 works
  10. 10 Saveetha UniversityIndia 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Dental Education, Practice, Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Dental Education, Practice, Research include Cyrus Cooper, Gordon Henry Guyatt and Robert A. Weinberg.

  1. 1 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  2. 2 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  3. 3 Robert A. Weinberg United States 301k citations
  4. 4 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom 285k citations
  5. 5 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  6. 6 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  7. 7 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Dental Education, Practice, Research?

The most cited paper in Dental Education, Practice, Research is "Personal communication" (Glen W. Davidson, Danell Crase, 1989), with 2,888 citations. Next come "Quality guidelines for endodontic treatment: consensus report of the European Society of Endodontology" (1,224) and "The development of an index of orthodontic treatment priority" (1,163).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Personal communication Glen W. Davidson, Danell Crase · Death Studies 1989 2,888
2 Quality guidelines for endodontic treatment: consensus report of the European Society of Endodontology European Society of Endodontology · International Endodontic Journal Open access 10 Nov 2006 1,224
3 The development of an index of orthodontic treatment priority Peter Brook, William C. Shaw · European Journal of Orthodontics Aug 1989 1,163
4 The importance of what we care about Harry G. Frankfurt · Synthese Nov 1982 1,100
5 A NEW X-RAY TECHNIQUE and ITS APPLICATION TO ORTHODONTIA B. Holly Broadbent · The Angle Orthodontist Open access 15 Jul 2009 1,073
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Where is Dental Education, Practice, Research research done?

The largest centres of Dental Education, Practice, Research research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Melbourne (Australia) and Chicago (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Yangon, London and Plymouth.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 229 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 41 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 35 works
  4. 4 ChicagoUnited States 34 works
  5. 5 KarachiPakistan 34 works
  6. 6 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 33 works
  7. 7 PlymouthUnited Kingdom 31 works
  8. 8 ChennaiIndia 30 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 29 works
  10. 10 YangonMyanmar 29 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. YangonMM · 29.4 works77×
  2. London28.1 works51×
  3. PlymouthGB · 30.5 works49×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Dental Education, Practice, Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Dental Education, Practice, Research?

Among universities, judged by research, King's College London, King Abdulaziz University and The University of Queensland score highest, combining 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 15.97%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →The University of Qu…King Abdulaziz Unive…University of PlymouthKing's College London
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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.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 67.26.2%18.3×49 +28.0%
2King Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia 60.225.0%6.6×11 +6.8%
3The University of QueenslandAustralia 60.135.0%3.9×12 -7.8%
4University of PlymouthUnited Kingdom 59.015.6%45.9×16 +173.5%
5Newcastle UniversityUnited Kingdom 52.117.8%6.6×10 +49.3%
6The University of MelbourneAustralia 51.917.1%4.1×14 +134.1%
7University of Dental MedicineMyanmar 51.30.9%429.4×29 +204.9%
8University of BristolUnited Kingdom 51.110.7%8.5×15 +26.3%
9Peninsula College of Medicine and DentistryUnited Kingdom 50.612.9%510.1×13 +412.7%
10University of DundeeUnited Kingdom 49.318.5%18.5×10 +3.2%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Dental Education, Practice, Research, country by country

Is Dental Education, Practice, Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Dental Education, Practice, Research.

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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 Dental Education, Practice, Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Dental Education, Practice, Research 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.

still counting5%10%15%Dental Education, Practice, Research10.4% in 2025200020102020

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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