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Dental materials and restorations

Dental materials and restorations is a research topic within Orthodontics. Science Explorer counts 55k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on advancements in dental restorative materials, including adhesive bonding, composite resins, ceramic restorations, and the use of CAD/CAM technology. It covers topics such as polymerization shrinkage, dentin structure, and the results of clinical trials evaluating various dental materials for tooth restoration.

  • Dental Materials
  • Restorative Dentistry
  • Adhesive Bonding
  • Composite Resins
  • Ceramic Restorations
  • Dentin Structure
  • CAD/CAM Technology
  • Polymerization Shrinkage
  • Clinical Trials
  • Tooth Restoration
Research works
55k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+17%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
19% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Dental materials and restorations

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

Which countries lead Dental materials and restorations research?

By volume, India and Brazil publish the most (1.6k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 1.6k works
  2. 2 Brazil 1.2k works
  3. 3 China 1.1k works
  4. 4 Türkiye 1.1k works
  5. 5 United States 958 works
  6. 6 Egypt 734 works
  7. 7 Saudi Arabia 586 works
  8. 8 Iran 421 works
  9. 9 Germany 396 works
  10. 10 Italy 335 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: 19.2%Brazil: 14.3%China: 13.0%Türkiye: 12.7%6 others listed: 40.8%19%largest
India1,609 · 19.2%Brazil1,202 · 14.3%China1,093 · 13.0%Türkiye1,064 · 12.7%6 others listed3,430 · 40.8%

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

Which institutions lead Dental materials and restorations research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Dental materials and restorations research, followed by Saveetha University and King Saud University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 139 works
  2. 2 Saveetha UniversityIndia 122 works
  3. 3 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 122 works
  4. 4 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 104 works
  5. 5 Cairo UniversityEgypt 97 works
  6. 6 Stomatology HospitalChina 92 works
  7. 7 Mansoura UniversityEgypt 90 works
  8. 8 Sichuan UniversityChina 73 works
  9. 9 Alexandria UniversityEgypt 72 works
  10. 10 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 72 works

Who are the leading researchers in Dental materials and restorations?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Dental materials and restorations include Matthias Egger, Róbert Langer and Yousef Saleh Khader.

  1. 1 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  2. 2 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations
  3. 3 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  4. 4 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  5. 5 John Anthony Pople United States 202k citations
  6. 6 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  7. 7 Ratilal Lalloo Australia 182k citations
  8. 8 Eduardo Bernabé United Kingdom 178k citations
  9. 9 Mike J Clarke United Kingdom 175k 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 materials and restorations?

The most cited paper in Dental materials and restorations is "Solutions able to reproduce in vivo surface‐structure changes in bioactive glass‐ceramic A‐W 3" (T Kokubo, H. Kushitani, S. Sakka et al., 1990), with 3,844 citations. Next come "Surface treatments of titanium dental implants for rapid osseointegration" (2,424) and "The effects of surgical exposures of dental pulps in germ-free and conventional laboratory rats" (2,341).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Solutions able to reproduce in vivo surface‐structure changes in bioactive glass‐ceramic A‐W 3 T Kokubo, H. Kushitani, S. Sakka et al. · Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Jun 1990 3,844
2 Surface treatments of titanium dental implants for rapid osseointegration Laurent Le Guéhennec, Assem Soueidan, Pierre Layrolle et al. · Dental Materials 15 Aug 2006 2,424
3 The effects of surgical exposures of dental pulps in germ-free and conventional laboratory rats Samuel Kakehashi, Harold R. Stanley, ROBERT J. FITZGERALD · Oral Surgery Oral Medicine Oral Pathology Sep 1965 2,341
4 Matrix Metalloproteinases and Other Matrix Proteinases in Relation to Cariology: The Era of ‘Dentin Degradomics' Leo Tjäderhane, Marília Afonso Rabelo Buzalaf, Marcela Carrilho et al. · Caries Research Open access 2015 2,311
5 Resin composite—State of the art Jack L. Ferracane · Dental Materials 19 Nov 2010 2,181
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Dental materials and restorations research done?

The largest centres of Dental materials and restorations research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Chennai (India), Istanbul (Türkiye) and Cairo (Egypt). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Medak and Nalgonda.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 300 works
  2. 2 ChennaiIndia 285 works
  3. 3 IstanbulTürkiye 253 works
  4. 4 CairoEgypt 244 works
  5. 5 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 219 works
  6. 6 AnkaraTürkiye 190 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 159 works
  8. 8 TehranIran 150 works
  9. 9 Xi'anChina 149 works
  10. 10 BaghdadIraq 149 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MedakIN · 33.9 works110×
  2. NalgondaIN · 64.1 works89×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Dental materials and restorations than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Dental materials and restorations?

Among universities, judged by research, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, University of Bern and King Saud University 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%10%20%30%mean 19.31%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Ibb UniversityImam Abdulrahman Bin…University of BernKing Saud University
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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
1Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal UniversitySaudi Arabia 74.825.5%24.9×51 +36.5%
2University of BernSwitzerland 74.722.5%7.0×43 +31.8%
3King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 69.712.5%11.1×122 +56.2%
4Ibb UniversityYemen 66.428.0%36.6×9 +390.8%
5University of Hong KongChina 66.221.0%4.1×43 +14.4%
6Semmelweis UniversityHungary 66.027.5%9.4×20 +218.5%
7University of AmsterdamNetherlands 63.919.6%4.5×30 +45.0%
8Saveetha UniversityIndia 62.17.4%11.4×122 +93.2%
9Alexandria UniversityEgypt 60.512.0%14.1×72 +59.7%
10University of ZurichSwitzerland 60.417.1%7.5×59 -21.4%

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 materials and restorations, country by country

Is Dental materials and restorations research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Dental materials and restorations.

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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 materials and restorations as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.054% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Dental materials and restorations0.055% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Dental materials and restorations 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 materials and restorations9.9% 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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