Global dental research excellence anchored in wealthy English-speaking nations

BRNO, Czech Republic: A recent bibliometric study has mapped the global landscape of dental research excellence, and identified marked differences across countries, institutions and researcher demographics. The analysis used the Stanford–Elsevier lists of the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists to analyse the global distribution of highly cited dental researchers in relation to selected national, institutional and individual indicators from 2017 to 2023. It offers the first comprehensive view of dental research excellence.