title: Finite Element Analysis Generates an Increasing Interest in Dental Research: A Bibliometric Study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose was to provide a longitudinal overview of published studies that use finite element analysis in dental research, by using the SCI-expanded database of Web of Science(®) (Thomson Reuters).
  
  
  METHODS
  Eighty publications from 1999-2000 and 473 from 2009-2010 were retrieved. This literature grew faster than the overall dental literature. The number of publishing countries doubled. The main journals were American or English, and dealt with implantology. For the top 10 journals publishing dental finite element papers, the mean impact factor increased by 75% during the decade.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Finite elements generate an increasing interest from dental authors and publishers worldwide.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Oral Pathophysiology, INSERM UMRS 1138, Team Berdal, Cordeliers Research Center, Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6, Paris Descartes University - Paris 5, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Abdoulaziz
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Diarra
authors.affiliation: Program in Craniofacial and Mesenchymal Biology, School of Dentistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Vagan
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Mushegyan
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Oral Pathophysiology, INSERM UMRS 1138, Team Berdal, Cordeliers Research Center, Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6, Paris Descartes University - Paris 5, Paris, France ; Prosthodontics Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Paris Descartes University, Sorbonne Paris Cite, Montrouge, France.
authors.forename: Adrien
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Naveau
keywords: Bibliometrics; dental research; dentistry; finite element analysis; journal impact factor; trends