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Dental Health and Care Utilization

Dental Health and Care Utilization is a research topic within Periodontics. Science Explorer counts 37k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on global oral health and dental caries, addressing topics such as the global burden of oral conditions, preventive measures, impact on quality of life, fluoride use, epidemiology, risk factors, and social determinants. It also explores remineralization techniques and the implications of oral health disparities.

  • Oral Health
  • Dental Caries
  • Global Burden
  • Prevention
  • Quality of Life
  • Fluoride
  • Epidemiology
  • Risk Factors
  • Social Determinants
  • Remineralization
Research works
37k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
18% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Dental Health and Care Utilization

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

Which countries lead Dental Health and Care Utilization research?

By volume, India and the United States publish the most (1.1k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 1.1k works
  2. 2 United States 1.1k works
  3. 3 Brazil 1k works
  4. 4 China 707 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 464 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 399 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 371 works
  8. 8 Japan 326 works
  9. 9 Saudi Arabia 321 works
  10. 10 Iran 254 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: 18.4%United States: 17.9%Brazil: 16.8%China: 11.7%6 others listed: 35.2%18%largest
India1,116 · 18.4%United States1,084 · 17.9%Brazil1,016 · 16.8%China707 · 11.7%6 others listed2,135 · 35.2%

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

Which institutions lead Dental Health and Care Utilization research?

By volume in 2022-now, Saveetha University publishes the most Dental Health and Care Utilization research, followed by Universidade de São Paulo and University of Hong Kong.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Saveetha UniversityIndia 72 works
  2. 2 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 65 works
  3. 3 University of Hong KongChina 60 works
  4. 4 Sichuan UniversityChina 51 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 46 works
  6. 6 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 45 works
  7. 7 Stomatology HospitalChina 44 works
  8. 8 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 41 works
  9. 9 King Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia 41 works
  10. 10 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 40 works

Who are the leading researchers in Dental Health and Care Utilization?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Dental Health and Care Utilization include Christopher J L Murray, Rob Knight and Simon Iain Hay.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  3. 3 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  4. 4 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  5. 5 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  6. 6 Julian P. T. Higgins United Kingdom 390k citations
  7. 7 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  8. 8 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  9. 9 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  10. 10 Farshad Farzadfar Iran 298k 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 Health and Care Utilization?

The most cited paper in Dental Health and Care Utilization is "Low Health Literacy and Health Outcomes: An Updated Systematic Review" (Nancy D Berkman, Stacey Sheridan, Katrina E Donahue et al., 2011), with 5,609 citations. Next come "Proteobacteria: microbial signature of dysbiosis in gut microbiota" (4,155) and "Oral diseases: a global public health challenge" (3,955).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Low Health Literacy and Health Outcomes: An Updated Systematic Review Nancy D Berkman, Stacey Sheridan, Katrina E Donahue et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine Review 19 Jul 2011 5,609
2 Proteobacteria: microbial signature of dysbiosis in gut microbiota Na-Ri Shin, Tae Woong Whon, Jin‐Woo Bae · Trends in biotechnology Review 22 Jul 2015 4,155
3 Oral diseases: a global public health challenge Marco Aurélio Peres, Lorna M. D. Macpherson, Robert J. Weyant et al. · The Lancet Open access Jul 2019 3,955
4 Staging and grading of periodontitis: Framework and proposal of a new classification and case definition Maurizio S. Tonetti, Henry Greenwell, Kenneth S. Kornman · Journal of Periodontology Open access Jun 2018 3,251
5 The World Oral Health Report 2003: continuous improvement of oral health in the 21st century – the approach of the WHO Global Oral Health Programme Poul Erik Petersen · Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology 21 Nov 2003 3,219
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Where is Dental Health and Care Utilization research done?

The largest centres of Dental Health and Care Utilization research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Chennai (India), London (United Kingdom) and Riyadh (Saudi Arabia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nalgonda and Yangon.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 183 works
  2. 2 ChennaiIndia 159 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 156 works
  4. 4 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 110 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 96 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 95 works
  7. 7 IstanbulTürkiye 92 works
  8. 8 TehranIran 80 works
  9. 9 BangkokThailand 67 works
  10. 10 Xi'anChina 65 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NalgondaIN · 40.0 works71×
  2. YangonMM · 29.4 works27×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Dental Health and Care Utilization than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Dental Health and Care Utilization?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Hong Kong, Sichuan University and University of Bern score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 21.01%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Hong K…University of BernSichuan UniversityKing Abdulaziz Unive…
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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.

Citation 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
1University of Hong KongChina 92.528.5%7.4×60 +21.5%
2Sichuan UniversityChina 77.627.6%2.6×51 +88.8%
3University of BernSwitzerland 74.828.3%4.1×20 +43.4%
4King Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia 71.416.9%8.7×41 +42.3%
5Queen Mary University of LondonUnited Kingdom 70.318.9%8.5×32 +93.4%
6University of AmsterdamNetherlands 65.617.1%5.7×30 +38.0%
7Harvard UniversityUnited States 65.420.2%1.2×34 +32.4%
8Alexandria UniversityEgypt 65.418.9%7.6×30 +85.9%
9Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 64.426.2%3.9×21 +5.9%
10Saveetha UniversityIndia 62.07.5%8.6×72 +16.5%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Health and Care Utilization, country by country

Is Dental Health and Care Utilization research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Dental Health and Care Utilization.

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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 Health and Care Utilization as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.041% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Dental Health and Care Utilization0.044% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Dental Health and Care Utilization 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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