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Hot spots and frontier evolution of Endodontics in 21 Century——Based on bibliometrics and visualization analysis of two high effected SCI Journals of Endodontics

Wang Yusu 1,Jing XU   

  • Received:2016-12-15 Revised:2017-01-24 Online:2017-08-28 Published:2017-08-28
  • Contact: Jing XU E-mail:dentistxj@126.com

Abstract: Abstract:Objective To discuss the hot spots and frontier evolution of Endodontics in 21 Century. Methods Choose two high effected SCI Journals of Endodontics——International Endodontic Journal and Journal of Endodontics。 Analysis the top 10 countries、institutions and authors by bibliometric and visualized by CiteSpace. The hot spots and frontier evolution were observed by co-keyword analysis. Results In the two journals from 2001 to 2016, the top 1 country is USA, top 1 institution is University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, top 1 author is Siqueira JF(97 articles). The research hot-topics mainly focus on Bacterial infection, root canal disinfection drugs, instruments for root canal preparation, diagnosis of apical periodontitis, dental pulp tissue engineering. We can pay attention to dental pulp regeneration,. self adjust file, CBCT, et al. Conclusion Maping analysis with CiteSpace visualization software can be simple and easy to realize the quantitative analysis of the literature in a certain area, and can help researchers to grasp the hot spots and frontier evolution.

Key words: Endodontics, SCI Journal, from 2001 to 2016, CiteSpace, bibliometrics, visualization analysis, co-keyword analysis

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