RESUMO
This study examines the citation frequency (via the Science Citation Index) of publications by Dutch dental scientists that have appeared in the international literature since World War II. It was found that most citations were obtained by a relatively small group of researchers, many of them working in the fields of cariology and periodontology. High scores were particularly found among scientists who had their academic training in disciplines other than dentistry. Out of 109 frequently cited papers over 25% was microbiology-oriented and most of them could be characterized as original basic dental research.
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Pesquisa em Odontologia/estatística & dados numéricos , Jornalismo em Odontologia , Humanos , Países BaixosRESUMO
The number of PhD-theses by Dutch scientists shows a continuous increase over the last four decades, resulting in about 20 theses per year during the early nineties. They cover a wide range of subjects in all major disciplines of dental research and nowadays are usually written in English (in 80% of the cases). A substantial proportion (23%) of all dental theses comes from scientists not trained as dentist but in other disciplines like biochemistry and psychology. So far, the drastic decline in the number of Dental Schools in the Netherlands during the eighties has had little influence on the overall outcome of PhD-theses. The international impact of Dutch dental research seems to increase over the years as shown by the declining fraction of Dutch dental scientists who are never cited in the international dental literature.
