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Dental Radiography and Imaging

Dental Radiography and Imaging is a research topic within Oral Surgery. Science Explorer counts 45k 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 the application of Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) in dentistry, particularly in dental imaging, radiation dosimetry, maxillofacial radiology, dental implantology, and the diagnosis and treatment of periodontal disease. It also explores the use of artificial intelligence for dental image diagnostics, anatomical landmark detection, and the impact of CBCT on third molar surgery and osteoporosis assessment.

  • Cone-Beam CT
  • Dental Imaging
  • Radiation Dosimetry
  • Maxillofacial Radiology
  • Dental Implantology
  • Periodontal Disease
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Anatomical Landmarks
  • Third Molar Surgery
  • Osteoporosis
Research works
45k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Dental Radiography and Imaging

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

Which countries lead Dental Radiography and Imaging research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (1.9k and 1.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 1.9k works
  2. 2 China 1.3k works
  3. 3 United States 1k works
  4. 4 Brazil 896 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 806 works
  6. 6 Saudi Arabia 383 works
  7. 7 South Korea 337 works
  8. 8 Japan 329 works
  9. 9 Iran 329 works
  10. 10 Italy 326 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: 24.7%China: 16.8%United States: 13.7%Brazil: 11.8%6 others listed: 33.0%25%largest
India1,878 · 24.7%China1,280 · 16.8%United States1,039 · 13.7%Brazil896 · 11.8%6 others listed2,510 · 33.0%

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

Which institutions lead Dental Radiography and Imaging research?

By volume in 2022-now, Saveetha University publishes the most Dental Radiography and Imaging research, followed by Stomatology Hospital and Universidade de São Paulo.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Saveetha UniversityIndia 124 works
  2. 2 Stomatology HospitalChina 82 works
  3. 3 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 79 works
  4. 4 Sichuan UniversityChina 71 works
  5. 5 Kamineni Institute of Dental SciencesIndia 64 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 59 works
  7. 7 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 55 works
  8. 8 Cairo UniversityEgypt 54 works
  9. 9 Government Dental College and HospitalIndia 49 works
  10. 10 Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 47 works

Who are the leading researchers in Dental Radiography and Imaging?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Dental Radiography and Imaging include Walter Churchill Willett, Cyrus Cooper and Gordon Henry Guyatt.

  1. 1 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  2. 2 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  3. 3 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  4. 4 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  5. 5 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  6. 6 Paul M. Ridker United States 233k citations
  7. 7 Graham A. Colditz United States 233k 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 Radiography and Imaging?

The most cited paper in Dental Radiography and Imaging is "Staging and grading of periodontitis: Framework and proposal of a new classification and case definition" (Maurizio S. Tonetti, Henry Greenwell, Kenneth S. Kornman, 2018), with 3,251 citations. Next come "Periodontitis: Consensus report of workgroup 2 of the 2017 World Workshop on the Classification of Periodontal and Peri‐Implant Diseases and Conditions" (3,213) and "Osseointegrated Titanium Implants: Requirements for Ensuring a Long-Lasting, Direct Bone-to-Implant Anchorage in Man" (2,698).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 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
2 Periodontitis: Consensus report of workgroup 2 of the 2017 World Workshop on the Classification of Periodontal and Peri‐Implant Diseases and Conditions Panos N. Papapanou et al. · Journal of Periodontology Open access Jun 2018 3,213
3 Osseointegrated Titanium Implants: Requirements for Ensuring a Long-Lasting, Direct Bone-to-Implant Anchorage in Man Tomas O. Albrektsson, Per‐Ingvar Brånemark, Hans‐Arne Hansson et al. · Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica 1981 2,698
4 Standardized nomenclature, symbols, and units for bone histomorphometry: A 2012 update of the report of the ASBMR Histomorphometry Nomenclature Committee David W. Dempster, Juliet Elizabeth Compston, Marc K. Drezner et al. · Journal of Bone and Mineral Research Open access 29 Nov 2012 2,599
5 The Plaque Control Record Timothy J. O’Leary, Robert B. Drake, James E. Naylor · Journal of Periodontology 1972 2,573
All 97 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Dental Radiography and Imaging research done?

The largest centres of Dental Radiography and Imaging research in 2022-now are Chennai (India), São Paulo (Brazil), Beijing (China) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nalgonda and Medak.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ChennaiIndia 286 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 188 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 183 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 162 works
  5. 5 IstanbulTürkiye 147 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 140 works
  7. 7 AnkaraTürkiye 134 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 128 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 122 works
  10. 10 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 121 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NalgondaIN · 63.7 works93×
  2. MedakIN · 26.1 works90×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Dental Radiography and Imaging?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Hong Kong, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and University of Basel 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 26.65%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Ludwig-Maximilians-U…University of Hong K…University of BaselKU Leuven
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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
1University of Hong KongChina 76.728.9%3.9×39 +25.5%
2Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 68.432.3%2.3×21 +59.5%
3University of BaselSwitzerland 68.226.6%4.7×19 +64.6%
4KU LeuvenBelgium 67.126.2%2.6×27 +0.1%
5University of BernSwitzerland 66.124.3%4.2×24 +4.1%
6Karolinska InstitutetSweden 65.332.5%3.3×20 +3.8%
7King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health SciencesSaudi Arabia 64.328.9%10.5×11 +139.6%
8Sichuan UniversityChina 63.817.5%3.0×71 +63.8%
9Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 62.930.8%2.1×19 +14.4%
10Ajman UniversityUnited Arab Emirates 62.418.5%19.7×16 +90.0%

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 Radiography and Imaging, country by country

Is Dental Radiography and Imaging research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Dental Radiography and Imaging.

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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 Radiography and Imaging as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.051% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Dental Radiography and Imaging0.053% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Dental Radiography and Imaging 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 Radiography and Imaging9.8% 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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