Nazeer Khan, Arshad Hasan, Syed Arif Ali, Mehwish Hussain, Sundus Iftikhar.
Profile of Dental Research in Pakistani Dental Journals during Last Ten Years (2003-2012).
Ann Jinnah Sindh Med Uni Jan ;1(1):2-6.

Objectives: The objectives of the present study were to create a profile of dental research by Pakistani authors in the two national dental journals; and to determine the changes occurred over a ten years period from 2003 to 2012. Methodology: All the issues of the two dental journals in Pakistan; Journal of Pakistan Dental Association (JPDA) and Pakistan Oral and Dental Journal (PODJ) from 2003 to 2012 were manually reviewed. Only those articles which had first author from Pakistan were included in the study. All the selected articles were categorized by article type, and type of basic and clinical research. Chi-square test was utilized to compare the information collected from the two journals. Results: Five hundred and eighty one articles were published during the study period of 2003 to 2012 in JPDA and PODJ. Two hundred and forty three articles were published in JPDA and 338 in PODJ during the study period the total number of articles published in the JPDA and PODJ became double from 46 to 100...About three-fourth (73.7%) articles were categorized as ”original article”. A significantly higher percentage of original articles were published in PODJ as compared to JPDA. Articles on health system policy, clinical trials and dental material were rarely (less than 5%) in both journals..Two-third (64%) of the printed articles could be categorized as ’Clinical Research’. PODJ published more clinical research articles as compared to JPDA..Among clinical research articles; maximum percentage (34.4%) was in specialty of Orthodontics. Conclusions: The number of articles published in JPDA and PODJ doubled during the study period from 2003 to 2012. However, the increase lacks in areas such as randomized clinical trials, dental material and population-based studies. Key words: Bibliometric analyses, dental journals, publications, Pakistan.

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