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Clinical relevance In this study, along with some key mes-sages about the key shifts in publication trends, in terms of subject, where published and by whom, we propose a new methodology which could be useful to professionals as well as researchers, in which the exhaustivity and precision rates for scientific information retrieval improve.Keywords Dental research .Dentistry .Publications .Journal impact factor .Bibliometrics .Biomedical research Introduction Dentistry, as a science, has achieved a high level of maturity i n recent decades. Solla-Price’s seminal work on the exponential growth of science established that publications have doubled in fixed time periods . However, no studies document whether Dentistry fits this pattern, raising certain questions: how has dentistry research evolved during recent decades? Has the quantity or the quality of dental articles changed, and, if so, how?Bibliometrics, a systematic method for evaluating re-search output, can help track changes in scientific interests over time, providing insights into both qualitative and quantitative research trends. The analysis of scientific pro-duction in specific areas highlights emerging themes and relationships between disciplines, indicating possible advances in the near future .However, research analysis in biomedical fields, is complex. No methodology yet fully satisfies the needs of researchers, institutions, and scientific administrators, al-though the analysis of publications remains a predominate approach, especially using MEDLINE or the journals Electronic supplementary material of a category of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) in Web of Science (WoS) databases .Apart from methodological problems, several phenomena determine the difficulty of this analysis, especially in Dentistry. On one hand, with the publication surge, authorship and collaborative efforts with other disciplines have burgeoned, so that part of the production is published in non-specialty journals.