Top Cited Articles in Dental Trauma; A Bibliometric Study


A citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work for the purpose of acknowledging the relevance of the works ofothers to the topic of discussion at the spot where the citation
appears. This definition from Google Scholar indicates that a citation can be a reference to any item, be it an article, book, dissertation, newspaper editorial or similar material. It not only provides adequate information at the end of the scholarlywork, to locate the item from where the information has been
borrowed but also helps to acknowledge the author of that information. In fact, plagiarism issues arise when the author uses a specific source in his body of work but fail to indicate what has been borrowed or do not mention the original author of the referenced material. To cite a particular work serves several important purposes including safeguarding  Intellectualhonesty and integrity as well as giving credit to the original author for his authentic thinking and idea . Itprovides the readers certain autonomy because they can decide, after reading through the references, whetherthe referenced material supports or refutes the author’sargument in the way it has been claimed. 
The results of the analysis of the most frequently cited articles arealso the determining aspect of journals’ impact factor, whichare figures of merit frequently looked upon by researcherswhen they are submitting their original research to a particularjournal. In fact Journal Citation Report (JCR) ranks journals oncitation data . Although a high rank according to citationsalone cannot be held as the ultimate criteria for the relevanceand quality of the article, it does however indicate the impactthat article has in that particular field of science.Nevertheless, citation analysis of literature and articles invarious specialties is a well-accepted means of scientificrecognition.Various t
ools have been devised and suggested as a meansof counting citations. Several resources can be utilized in thisregard, in order to fully capture an article’s or an author’s impact in terms of the citations received. Each of theseresources produces slightly variable results revealing the needfor using more than one data base to count citations. EugeneGarfield founded the Institute for Scientific Information(ISI), which since 1945, has been the largest database forbibliographic information of more than 10,000 internationaljournals through the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI). 

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