Top 100 Most-Cited Articles on Mandibular Fractures: A Bibliometric Analysis

This study aimed to compile a list of the 100 most cited articles on mandibular fractures and to glean key insights from these articles via a bibliometric analysis.

This bibliometric analysis was performed using the Web of Science Core Collection database. The search was performed through January 2022. The bibliometric parameters extracted included title, number of citations, citation density (number of citations per year), first author's country, year of publication, study design, and subject. The software program VOSviewer was used to create graphical bibliometric maps.

The articles were ranked by the total number of citations, which ranged from 64 to 374, with 32 articles being cited more than 100 times. The included articles were published from 1952 to 2015, mainly in maxillofacial surgery journals. The most frequent of these were the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (54%) and the International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (14%). The studies were from 29 different countries, with the United States of America (42%) contributing substantially more than others, with the next ranked nation being Germany (9%). The most frequently used keywords were osteosynthesis (25), open reduction (18), and fixation (16).

The country that contributed most to mandibular fracture research was the United States of America. This conclusion was based on the number of published articles by nation of origin and the origin of the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, in which the majority were published. Osteosynthesis was the most cited field of research among the articles in the sample set.