ReviewHeliyon2024
Bibliometric analysis of pediatric dental sedation research from 1993 to 2022.
Review in Heliyon, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Development of a multidisciplinary competency framework for specialist nurses in outpatient dental sedation and anesthesia: a mixed-methods Delphi and AHP study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Evaluation of Publication Growth in Pediatric Dentistry From 2005 to 2024: A Bibliometric Analysis.Cureus · 2026Review
- Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Statement of problem: Bibliometric analysis methods were used to evaluate pediatric dental sedation research and to identify topical hotspots using quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Purpose: To conduct bibliometric analysis on the retrieved data and to foresee the development of trends and hotspots in this research area. Material and methods: We retrieved appropriate research articles from the Web of Science Core Collection on January 1, 2023. VOSviewer, Citespace and the Bibliometrics website were used to conduct bibliometric analysis on the retrieved data. GraphPad Prism 10.0 (GraphPad, San Diego, CA, USA) was used to conduct the statistical analysis. Results: A total of 396 publications on pediatric sedation in dentistry, published between 1993 and 2022, were retrieved from online databases. The USA published most papers. Furthermore, the most frequent countries who cooperated were the USA and Canada. Six of the top ten publishing establishments were USA based. Papers on the research have appeared primarily in the journals of Dentistry and Anesthesiology. Keyword co-occurrence and co-citation cluster analysis revealed that the most common topics mainly were: dental anxiety; conscious sedation; dental caries; midazolam; propofol; hypoxemia. Conclusions: During the three decades, the focus of pediatric sedation research has been on drugs, dental anxiety and procedural sedation. Keyword burst detection indicated that procedural sedation; adverse event; respiratory depression is an emerging research hotspot.
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Registered trials
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