![]() ![]() Bibliometric methods have previously been used in the health sciences, including medicine and dentistry. Bibliometrics now involves not only the evaluation of patterns of publications and citations, but also the assessment of variables that include the number of publications and citation from each author, research group, or institution. In 1987, Broadus defined bibliometrics as, ‘the measurement of patterns in written communication’. A sufficient period has now passed to evaluate the quantity and quality of scientific publications in dentistry in the three Baltic countries. During this time, five main academic centers began to train dental specialists and undertook and published scientific research in the Baltic countries and included the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences and Vilnius University in Lithuania, the University of Latvia and Riga Stradins University in Latvia), and the University of Tartu in Estonia. Twenty-seven years ago, the Baltic countries of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia restored their independence from the Soviet Union. Authors mainly published in native journals and collaborated with authors in Scandinavia and North America. Most publications came from the academic institutions of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (136 publications), the University of Tartu (109 publications), Vilnius University (101 publications), and Riga Stradins University (28 publications).ĭuring the past 22 years, authors from Lithuania had the most publications in the field of dentistry, and authors from Estonia had the most cited publications. Estonian authors collaborated mainly with Finland (27 publications), Latvian authors with the USA (16 publications), and Lithuanian authors with Canada (26 publications). Of 28 authors with at least ten publications, 54% were Lithuanian (15 authors), 25% were Estonian (7 authors), and 21% were Latvian (6 authors). Publications from Estonia were ranked highest in qualitative terms (citation rate and h-index), followed by Lithuania, and Latvia. There were 651 scientific publications in dentistry between 19, by authors from Lithuania (280 publications), Latvia (210 publications), and Estonia (161 publications). The annual number of scientific publications, citation rate, and h-index for each publication, and trends in international co-authorship were investigated by country and institution. ![]() ![]() Web of Science and Scopus were searched to identify scientific publications in dentistry between 19 by authors from centers in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. This study aimed to determine the number and quality of scientific publications in dentistry from the Baltic countries of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia between 19 using bibliometric analysis. ![]()
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