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The trend of quality of publications in endodontic surgery: a 10-year systematic survey of the literature

Del Fabbro, Massimo, Corbella, Stefano, Tsesis, Igor, Taschieri, Silvio·2015·Journal of Evidence Based Dental Practice
DOI 10.1016/j.jebdp.2014.09.002
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Objectives The aims of the present systematic literature analysis were to evaluate, over a 10-year period, the trend of the proportion of RCT, SR, MA published on endodontic surgery, and to investigate if the impact factor (IF) of the main endodontic Journals correlates with the proportion of RCT, SR, MA they publish.Methods An electronic search of the RCT, SR and MA published on the topic "endodontic surgery" from 2001 to 2010 was performed on Medline and Cochrane CENTRAL database using specific search terms combined with Boolean operators. Endodontic Journals impact factor was retrieved by the Thomson Scientific database. The proportion of each study type over the total number of articles on endodontic surgery published per year was estimated. The correlation between the number of high-evidence level studies published on the main endodontic Journals and the IF of such Journals per year was estimated.Results From a total of 900 articles published in 2001-2010 on endodontic surgery, there were 114 studies of high evidence level. A significant increase of the proportion of either RCT, SR and MA over the years was found. A modest to unclear correlation was found between the Journal IF and the number of high-evidence articles published.Conclusions There is a positive trend over the years among researchers in performing studies of good quality in endodontic surgery. The impact factor of endodontic Journals is not consistently influenced by publication of high-evidence level articles.

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Authors
Del Fabbro, M., Corbella, S., Tsesis, I., & Taschieri, S.
Affiliations
  • University of Milan (IT)
  • Tel Aviv University (IL)
Corresponding author
Corbella, Stefano
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Venue
Journal of Evidence Based Dental Practice
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2015-03
Volume
15
Issue
1
Pages
2-7
ISSN
1532-3382 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.jebdp.2014.09.002
OpenAlex
W2138579863
Cited by
6
References
24
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1
FWCI
0.98
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Journal of Evidence Based Dental Practice (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
  • Health Sciences › Dentistry › Oral Surgery › Endodontics and Root Canal Treatments
Keywords
endodontic surgery, randomized controlled trials, meta-analysis, impact factor, evidence-based dentistry, publication quality
MeSH terms
Endodontics, Humans, Periodicals as Topic, Publishing, Review Literature as Topic, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Bibliometrics, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Evidence-Based Dentistry, Journal Impact Factor

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