• Mattos Flávio de Freitas FF https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6052-2762 Department of Social and Preventive Dentistry, Federal University of Minas Gerais (U, Matheus França Perazzo, Fabiana Vargas-Ferreira, Paulo Antônio Martins-Júnior, and Saul Martins Paiva.
• Department of Social and Preventive Dentistry, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
• Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2021 Feb 1; 49 (1): 40-46.

ObjectiveThis quali-quantitative study analysed the 100 most-cited papers in core dental public health (DPH) journals focusing on understanding international knowledge production.MethodsThe DPH journals were selected from titles and scopes at Web of Science Core Collection database up to March 2020. Further comparisons were performed at Scopus and Google Scholar databases. Some bibliometric parameters were extracted as follows: title, number of citations, citation density (number of citations per year), first author's country, year of publication, study design and subject. VOSviewer software was used to create graphical bibliometric maps.ResultsPapers were ranked by the total number of citations, which ranged from 104 to 1,019, and six papers were cited more than 400 times. Papers were published from 1974 to 2013, mainly in Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. Most frequent study designs were cross-sectional (30%) and nonsystematic review (25%). Most papers were from Europe (54%) and North America (31%). First authors were predominantly from the United Kingdom (17%), United States of America (17%) and Canada (14%). VOSviewer map of co-authorship demonstrated the existence of clusters in the research collaboration. Although epidemiology was the most frequent subject (84%), health services research presented eight times higher citation density.ConclusionsTop 100 most-cited papers in core DPH journals were predominantly observational studies from Anglo-Saxon countries. Top 100 most-cited papers in core DPH journals tend to be cross-sectional studies carried out in the United States with highest citation in health services research. Locker D, Petersen PE and Sheiham A are a landmark for DPH field.© 2020 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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