Abstract
ObjectivesTo reveal research focuses on surgery-first orthognathic surgery by a bibliometric and visualized analysis of the top 100 highly cited articles. Study DesignPublished papers related to surgery-first orthognathic surgery were retrospectively retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection from 2009 to 2022. The number of articles, journals, countries/regions, institutions, authors, keywords were assessed and visualized using CiteSpace software. ResultsThe top 100 cited articles included 89 research papers and 11 reviews. The average total citation was 21. The most influential article with 146 citations was published by Liou EJW in 2011. The most common level of evidence was level IV (36 articles). The Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery had the largest number of papers and the highest total citation frequency. The most productive countries and institutions were Korea/China, and Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, respectively. Chen Yu-ray and Choi Jong Woo published 13, 11 articles with 434, 299 total citations, respectively. Research interests shifted from skeletal class III malocclusion, accuracy, stability, relapse to quality of life and virtual surgical planning. ConclusionOur bibliometric analyses provide comprehensive landscape of the influential topics and developmental trends in surgery-first orthognathic surgery and inspire future studies in this booming field.
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