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Dental Research and COVID-19

Dental Research and COVID-19 is a research topic within General 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.

This cluster of papers focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on dental practice, addressing topics such as transmission routes, teledentistry, aerosol management, infection control, salivary diagnosis, virtual reality applications, and the use of povidone-iodine. It also discusses the educational implications for dental students and professionals.

  • COVID-19
  • Dental Practice
  • Transmission Routes
  • Teledentistry
  • Aerosols
  • Infection Control
  • Salivary Diagnosis
  • Virtual Reality
  • Povidone-Iodine
  • Educational Impact
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%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+23%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Dental Research and COVID-19

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

Which countries lead Dental Research and COVID-19 research?

By volume, India and the United States publish the most (1.5k and 992 works in 2022-now).

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 Dental Research and COVID-19 research?

By volume in 2022-now, Saveetha University publishes the most Dental Research and COVID-19 research, followed by Universidade de São Paulo and King Saud University.

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 Dental Research and COVID-19?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Dental Research and COVID-19 include Matthias Egger, Yousef Saleh Khader and Lídia Morawska.

  1. 1 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  2. 2 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  3. 3 Lídia Morawska Australia 244k 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 Research and COVID-19?

The most cited paper in Dental Research and COVID-19 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
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Dental Research and COVID-19 research done?

The largest centres of Dental Research and COVID-19 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 Dental Research and COVID-19 than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Dental Research and COVID-19?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Hong Kong, University of Bern and King Abdulaziz University 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%20%40%mean 25.13%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of BernUniversity of Hong K…Imam Abdulrahman Bin…King 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 70.834.6%3.6×30 +5.2%
2University of BernSwitzerland 66.243.5%2.5×12 +52.7%
3King Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia 65.018.1%10.0×48 +52.5%
4Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal UniversitySaudi Arabia 64.530.5%14.5×23 +9.6%
5Ajman UniversityUnited Arab Emirates 64.327.3%23.7×16 +103.7%
6King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 62.813.5%6.4×56 +36.7%
7King Khalid UniversitySaudi Arabia 59.618.6%8.2×27 +60.9%
8University of SharjahUnited Arab Emirates 58.019.3%6.8×16 +86.9%
9Qatar UniversityQatar 57.225.5%4.5×11 +495.4%
10Alexandria UniversityEgypt 56.920.4%7.6×31 +71.3%

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 Research and COVID-19, country by country

Is Dental Research and COVID-19 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 Dental Research and COVID-19 as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.039% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Dental Research and COVID-190.038% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Dental Research and COVID-19 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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