title: The most-cited articles in dental, oral, and maxillofacial traumatology during 64 years.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Citation analysis helps to identify the research trends within a research field and helps to identify the most frequently occurring parameters. The aim of this study was to identify the 100 most-cited articles in the field of dental, oral, and maxillofacial traumatology over the past 64 years.
  
  
  METHODS
  A comprehensive list of the most-cited articles in dental, oral, and maxillofacial trauma was compiled using 'All Databases' section of the ISI Web of Knowledge. Related articles were considered to be those articles in which part or all of the experiment or study was related to dental and/or oral and maxillofacial trauma. In case reports, if a part of a treatment plan was related to the topic, that article was considered to be relevant. The characteristics analyzed included number of citations, authors, journals, institution, country of origin, publication year, article type, study material, and topic.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The number of citations for each article ranged from 69 to 229. The journal Dental Traumatology was the most represented, followed by the journal Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Of the 100 articles, 83% were original articles, 15% were review articles, and 2% were case report/case series. Therapy and prognosis-related topics were the most common topics. Most articles came from institutions in the United States, followed by the Scandinavian countries. University Hospital of Copenhagen was the source of the highest number (34) of the most-cited articles; the same author wrote or co-wrote 22 of the 100 most-cited articles.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The list of most-cited articles in the field of dental, oral, and maxillofacial traumatology gives a good scientometric picture of trauma research in the world. A large number of the most-cited articles are mainly from the field of dental traumatology and originate from a few research teams.
authors.affiliation: Dental Research Center, Department of Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.|ACECR Dental Trauma Research Center, Mashhad, Iran.
authors.forename: Hamid
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jafarzadeh
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
authors.forename: Alireza
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sarraf Shirazi
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, Health Sciences Center, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait.
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Andersson
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D018865:Dental Research; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014194:Traumatology
keywords: dental trauma; most-cited articles; scientometry