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2022 : Volume 1, Issue 1

A Practical Guide to An Altmetric Analysis and Top 100 most Mentioned Dentistry Articles

Author(s) : Ricardo Grillo ¹ and Victor Hugo Nastri ²

¹ Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery , Faculdade São Leopoldo Mandic , Brazil

² Department of Restorative Dentistry , Faculdade São Leopoldo Mandic , Brazil

Int J Dent Oral Care

Article Type : Research Article

DOI : https://doi.org/10.53996/2831-8706.ijdoc.1000105

Abstract

Objectives: A massive number of articles are published every year concerning dentistry, and it is a superhuman task to read and get actualized about it. The aim of this study is to create a list of higher altmetric scores articles in dentistry and teach how to perform this kind of bibliometric analysis.

Material and Methods: Research on the term "dentistry" was done using the Dimensions app (retrospective study). Results were ranked in altmetric citations and analyzed through Microsoft Excel to create some tables and graphics to facilitate data visualization. Graphical illustration of keywords was created using VOSviewer. Some statistical tests were performed with a confidence interval at 95% (p<0.05).

Results: The United States is the country that leads this list of high interest in dentistry articles, and some fascinating subjects can be noted, like growing interest in dental office aggressions, preventive care, and phytotherapy, among others. A practical guide how to perform an altmetric analysis was discussed.

Conclusion: Altmetric analysis is a new web-based, valuable manner to scientific updates, a complementary analysis to bibliometric analysis. Altmetrics is a free, useful, quick and available to everyone way to update in dentistry.

Clinical Relevance: altmetrics is a new and efficient manner to be attualized.

Objectives statement: The reader should know this free type of bibliometric analysis and to know how to perform it.

Keywords: Social media; Altmetric; Citation; Impact Factor; Bibliometrics; Dentistry; Twitter

Introduction

Humankind has a solid basis for evolution through science. Researches and their publications are fundamental to science spread, and when scientists publish a magnificent article, this article could improve many concepts. A terrific science publication could lead to a series of other important scientific papers, resulting in the benefit of science and humanity.

Some tools were created to analyze these articles, and scientometrics is one of them. Scientometrics, metric values of scientific papers, can be divided into some other fields, like bibliometrics and altmetrics. Bibliometrics uses statistical methods to analyze books, articles, or any scientific paper through some tools like citation analysis, a more traditional way of assessing scientific impact. Altmetrics is an alternative form of scientometrics, using internet information to calculate the web impact of scientific papers and gaining space in science. A significant advantage of altmetric analysis is its availability, given that altmetrics is free.

This retrospective study provides a list of the most mentioned articles related to dentistry. The author hypothesizes that any kind of study or professional level could be aided with some form of bibliometric analysis, like altmetrics, and this could save time and effort in any level of study. The specific aim of this study was to produce this list of top 100 articles with highest altmetric score, with some statistical tests performed to confirm more exciting topics and to show steps to perform an altmetric search. This analysis could help dentists of all specialities to get informed concerning their own speciality.

Material and Methods

A bibliographic search was done through the Dimensions app on April 17, 2021, using the strategy “dentistry” in the "Title and Abstract" option from 1839 until 2021. Articles were ordered in altmetric citations (Altmetric LLP, London, UK), and data were tabled and analyzed through Microsoft Office Excel 2010 (Microsoft, Richmond, USA) using statistical tests and charts. Articles with no relation to dentistry were excluded manually as duplicates (systematic review updates).

Data were analyzed to output the most relevant and up-to-date scientific papers about dentistry according to the Altmetric Attention Score (AAS). AAS extracts data from some web-based sources like Twitter, Facebook, or Mendeley readers. For each different indicator, AAS uses a different weight [Table 1 and Figure 1].

Data resources	Weight
News	8
Blog	5
Policy document (per source)	3
Patent
Wikipedia
Peer review (Publons, Pubpeer)	1
Weibo
Google +
F1000
Open Syllabus
Linkedin	0,5
Twitter	0,25
Facebook
Reddit
Pinterest
Q&A
Youtube

Table 1: Altmetric Attention Score Weight.

Source: https://help.altmetric.com/support/solutions/articles/6000233311-how-is-the-altmetric-attention-score-calculated

Figure 1: Example of Altmetric score in Dimensions.

The top 100 articles are based on the Altmetric score. For each article included, we extracted: Altmetric Attention Scores, number of scientific citations (bibliometrics), journal title, country of origin, institution, subject categories. Country of origin and affiliate institution was linked to the corresponding author. In case of the absence of this information, data were used from the last author. If any data are not available, it was considered as Not Found (NF). Articles with no relation to dentistry and published by any non-health professionals were excluded. Any discordance of data was solved by the authors' consensus. Some tables and graphs were created in order to facilitate data visualization through Microsoft Office Excel and VOS viewer (Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands).

Results

We have found 112,778 articles about dentistry and, depending on the bibliographic platform, and this number can reach more results. A PubMed search, on the same date, has achieved 625,291 articles. The list of the top 100 dentistry articles with the highest AAS is provided in Table 2.

Dimensions Citations	Citation Density	AAS	AAS Density	Reference	Year
2	0,67	1249	416,33	Charlier et al. [1]	2018
62	20,67	858	286,00	Moore et al. [2]	2018
155	31,00	595	119,00	Coté, Wilson [3]	2016
6	2,00	563	187,67	Muirhead et al. [4]	2018
8	2,67	563	187,67	Nagrath et al. [5]	2018
10	2,00	522	104,40	Ojaghi et al. [6]	2016
64	12,80	519	103,80	Wright et al. [7]	2016
95	11,88	496	62,00	Moore, Hersch [8]	2013
27	5,40	443	88,60	Aminoshariae et al. [9]	2016
600	600,00	425	425,00	Meng et al. [10]	2020
10	2,50	426	106,50	Spera et al. [11]	2017
1	0,25	391	97,75	Crowley [12]	2017
285	47,50	319	53,17	Dawood et al. [13]	2015
84	12,00	299	42,71	Sheiham, James [14]	2014
44	4,89	283	31,44	Bernardini et al. [15]	2012
49	9,80	247	49,40	Beukers et al. [16]	2017
6	1,20	244	48,80	Al-Jewair et al. [17]	2016
12	4,00	239	79,67	Taylor et al. [18]	2018
31	6,20	232	46,40	Peralta et al. [19]	2016
9	9,00	216	216,00	Shah et al. [20]	2020
38	19,00	185	92,50	Lockhart et al. [21]	2019
2147	357,83	185	30,83	Habib et al. [22]	2015
423	70,50	185	30,83	Levy et al. [23]	2015
8	8,00	182	182,00	Plog et al. [24]	2020
6	6,00	177	177,00	Nalliah et al. [25]	2020
33	3,30	171	17,10	Singh, Purohit [26]	2011
137	68,50	167	83,50	Watt et al. [27]	2019
26	3,71	161	23,00	Frese et al. [28]	2014
93	11,63	152	19,00	Giannobile et al. [29]	2013
61	4,07	148	9,87	Coppa et al. [30]	2006
0	0,00	147	147,00	Rhoades et al. [31]	2020
24	8,00	146	48,67	Ramsay et al. [32]	2018
2	0,40	140	28,00	Minozzi et al. [33]	2016
59	9,83	132	22,00	Yue et al. [34]	2015
23	23,00	127	127,00	Vergara-Buenaventura, Castro-Ruiz [35]	2020
1	0,50	127	63,50	Moore et al. [36]	2019
0	0,00	125	125,00	Istrate et al. [37]	2021
20	2,22	123	13,67	Grandjean [38]	2012
33	6,60	124	24,80	Brewer et al. [39]	2016
15	1,36	123	11,18	Bush et al. [40]	2010
0	0,00	116	58,00	Spivak [41]	2019
199	199,00	114	114,00	Sabino-Silva et al. [42]	2020
101	12,63	115	14,38	Sood, Nagpal [43]	2013
236	47,20	113	22,60	Cohen et al. [44]	2016
23	3,83	113	18,83	Cubayachi et al. [45]	2015
0	0,00	107	107,00	Hatfield at el [46]	2020
93	11,63	105	13,13	ten Cate [47]	2013
299	21,36	105	7,50	Watt [48]	2007
32	16,00	103	51,50	Innes et al. [49]	2019
95	15,83	103	17,17	Padovani et al. [50]	2015
15	15,00	101	101,00	Passarelli et al. [51]	2020
96	19,20	101	20,20	Wright et al. [52]	2016
146	13,27	94	8,55	Thomson et al. [53]	2010
24	4,00	94	15,67	Prajapati et al. [54]	2015
1	1,00	92	92,00	Rhoades et al. [55]	2020
26	5,20	91	18,20	Simon [56]	2016
2	1,00	85	42,50	Souto-Maior et al. [57]	2019
9	4,50	84	42,00	Thornhill et al. [58]	2019
69	23,00	84	28,00	Slayton et al. [59]	2018
57	7,13	83	10,38	Glenny et al. [60]	2013
48	9,60	83	16,60	Manfredi et al. [61]	2016
26	3,25	82	10,25	Turner et al. [62]	2013
6	6,00	81	81,00	Watt [63]	2020
5	2,50	79	39,50	Coll et al. [64]	2020
67	5,58	79	6,58	Chaturvedi [65]	2009
14	2,00	77	11,00	Mann et al. [66]	2014
5	1,00	77	15,40	Sandeep et al. [67]	2016
331	19,47	76	4,47	Harrel, Molinari [68]	2004
59	8,43	74	10,57	Carter et al. [69]	2014
24	6,00	73	18,25	Niederman et al. [70]	2017
68	9,71	73	10,43	Genco et al. [71]	2014
124	124,00	72	72,00	Coulthard [72]	2020
25	4,17	72	12,00	Tian et al. [73]	2015
12	4,00	71	23,67	Schwendicke et al. [74]	2019
0	0,00	70	70,00	Holden et al. [75]	2021
27	3,86	70	10,00	Williams et al. [76]	2014
9	2,25	70	17,50	Couto et al. [77]	2017
44	11,00	70	17,50	Pynnonen et al. [78]	2017
9	2,25	69	17,25	Stockton et al. [79]	2017
53	8,83	67	11,17	Mejàre et al. [80]	2015
23	2,88	66	8,25	Bissar et al. [81]	2013
5	2,50	65	32,50	Abadeh et al. [82]	2019
42	4,67	65	7,22	Sbaraini et al. [83]	2012
15	3,00	64	12,80	Ashley et al. [84]	2016
238	13,22	63	3,50	Hale [85]	2003
6	1,50	61	15,25	Saxen et al. [86]	2017
8	2,67	60	20,00	Holden [87]	2018
1	1,00	61	61,00	Brondani, Donnelly [88]	2020
51	5,67	60	6,67	Rathore et al. [89]	2012
131	16,38	59	7,38	Emami et al. [90]	2013
58	3,05	59	3,11	Burt [91]	2002
16	4,00	57	14,25	Afrastehfar, Assery [92]	2017
31	5,17	57	9,50	Bidra et al. [93]	2016
20	10,00	56	28,00	Thompson et al. [94]	2019
4	0,57	56	8,00	Stevens [95]	2014
5	2,50	55	27,50	McGrath [96]	2019
63	2,86	56	2,55	Klein, Nowak [97]	1999
16	5,33	56	18,67	Ashley et al. [98]	2018
15	15,00	55	55,00	Nagraj et al. [99]	2020
8	2,67	54	18,00	Ensaldo-Carrasco et al. [100]	2018

Table 2: List of the 100 articles order through AAS.

Mean AAS was [56,65], ranging from [54]100 to 1250 [1]. A total of 63 different journals are part of this list; Journal of the American Dental Association has the higher number of articles in this list, 14 followed by British Dental Journal and Journal of Dental Research with six. Mean number of citations is 21,50, ranging from 0 [37,41,46,55,87] to 2147 [22] citations.

There are 75 different worldwide institutions from 19 countries and four continents. University College of London leads the list with six published articles, followed by New York University, State University of New York, University of Michigan and University of Sydney with three articles. United States of America leads the list of countries of origin with a much larger quantity of articles than average amount, 40 articles followed by United Kingdom with 17 and Australia with 6 published articles [Figure 2].

Figure 2: Countries of origin of top 100 articles with highest AAS.

Richard Geddie Watt, Head of Department of Epidemiology and Public Health of University College London is the author with the most significant number of articles on this list. Two articles about oral health care [27,48] and one about opportunity for a reform in dentistry in this COVID-19 pandemic [63]. Two of these articles were published in a very high impact factor journal [27,63].

Articles, topics were divided into basic sciences/dental materials, cariology/oral health, endodontics, forensic dentistry, implantology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, pathology, patients with special needs, pediatrics, periodontology, perspectives and new technologies, pharmacology, restorative/prosthetic dentistry, and veterinary dentistry. More common keyword related to “dentistry” are “humans”, “female”, “male”, “adult” and “child”. An interesting fact about keyword on dentistry search is, next more cited keyword, on sixth place, is “covid-19”. A graphical representation of keywords [Figure 3] and authors [Figure 4] was performed through VOS viewer software.

Figure 3: A graphical visualization of keywords performed through VOS viewer software.

Figure 4: A graphical overlay visualization of authors performed through VOS viewer software. Only recent publications were included due to huge number of publications, from older (blue) to new ones (yellow).

Statistical Analysis of top 100 list

According to the Shapiro–Wilk test, the distribution of data regarding number of citations, AAS, citation density, article age was not normal (p<0.05). Pearson’s correlation tests revealed that there was a poor positive correlation between number of citations and AAS (r=0.0403, p<0.05).

Discussion

There are some relevant aspects in this study. Preventive treatments [7,49,59,64,66,70,85,95] and perspectives and handling on COVID-19 [10,20,24,35,42,51,63,72,88] are two everyday matters. Internet users are more interested in prevention than in restorative techniques. Dentists and patients are concerned about how COVID-19 affects dental offices in several manners, since reducing contamination through aerosol [24,99], decreased risk of infection in the dental office [35,42,51] and even how COVID affects antibiotic uses in dental practice 20. An article with high AAS (101) from 2020 51 calms down scared people about getting infected in dental offices since it relates some procedures usual in dental offices, even before the COVID-19 pandemic, are very effective in infection control.

Pediatrics is a subject that also attracts the attention of many people. Given the difficulty some professionals face when attending children, anesthesia in pediatrics is a fascinating matter [11,36,67,98]. Of course, preventive treatments, especially in children, are usually [7,74,81,85,95] and this interest must continue through years. Preventive treatments interests in children and adults too [6,47,49,59,64,70], including relation between sugar intake and caries [14].New technologies about needle-free anesthesia [45,77] and 3D printing [5,13] are on this list. Pharmacology is a high interest subject, particularly antibiotic [21,22,41,60], anesthesics [45,77,79,84,86] and pain control [23,25,46,58]. Phytotherapy in dentistry is also interesting to people, notably turmeric [65] and its active chemical substance, curcumin 43. Three articles about an unusual theme are part of this list, paleodontology [15,30,33].

A matter of concern is the number of aggressions through dentists and dental students and two articles [31,55] about handling this situation, from New York University has a high AAS. Authors are very incisive about the need to discuss this problem in dental practices and, due to the lack of articles, this is a subject that could interest readers and editors.

Nowadays, we have a world of information at our disposal, and it is increasingly difficult to transform this dull amount of data into knowledge. Due to the high impact of the internet on our lives, health professionals cannot let data from online social media out of discussion [101]. The use of a tool that could guide the scientific community on the most searched and commented data is of great value, and this is the importance of altmetric analysis. Scientific information of relevance is found with greater availability and, because of so much availability, AAS can be a precious guide to filter matters of greater pertinence [102]. A search on Goggle Trends can show us an increase interest about term “altmetrics” [Figure 5].

Figure 5: An increasing interest about “altmetrics” on Google Trends over the last 15 years. A world map with higher interested countries (darker blue shows a higher interest).

Altmetrics and bibliometrics analysis are not the same, but they correlate; some studies relate a strong correlation, some, weak [101]. In this present study, correlation is very poor [Figure 6], a factor that attests that both analyzes are independent and can be used together, one complementing another [103,105]. AAS is a handy tool as a guide to our professional studies and helps health professionals know what patients are looking for. Altmetrics could solve one ancient and persistent dentistry problem, slow recognition of new dental or medical technologies by students and graduates [106]. Dental professionals, researchers, and journal editors ought to pay attention to altmetrics [106] and bibliometrics.

If we compare several articles in a determined year in an AAS to a citation rank (bibliometric analysis), the difference between groups is visually apparent. While in an altmetric ranking, citations are harnessed and condensed to recent years, in a bibliometric ranking, the numbers of citations are scattered through years, and few or no citations are recent. This can be explained due to the time of publishing an article, and this article is cited in another paper takes longer than to be cited in any social media (Twitter, Facebook) or another digital media like Wikipedia [103]. No article in this list is part of bibliometric analysis performed in “The most cited articles in dentistry” [104] published in 2014, which generates a strong basis about the poor correlation between these two forms of scientometrics; one is complementary to the other.

Figure 6: Graphical representation of Pearson correlation between citations and AAS. A positive but very low correlation.

To perform an altmetric analysis is quick when Dimensions app or site is used. Subject can be found typing it, like any other bibliographic search, with field “Title and abstract” selected [Figure 7]. Then, articles can be sorted by some manners like relevance, year of publication, number of citations, and Altmetric attention score. Right below main reference, number of citations, and AAS are shown. Some services like adding to library are paid.

Figure 7: Dimensions search term “dentistry” sorted by altmetric attention score.

Conclusion

Altmetrics is available to everyone way to update, not only in dentistry but to all specialities, themes and topics. An altmetric analysis is helpful in seeing actual tendencies and interests about scientific articles that have been read and commented just now, not only cited by another paper but also by all web-based media, including social media, and an excellent manner to be actualized. As the final ranking is constantly in changes, an update is necessary, authors believe in about two or three years.

Acknowledgment

Funding: This article was not supported by any grant.

Competing Interests

Authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

Ethical approval: Not required.

Patient Consentment: Not required.

Consent for publication: Not applicable

Author’s contribution: All authors contributed equally to this manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Corresponding Author: Ricardo Grillo, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculdade São Leopoldo Mandic, Brazil.

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