Analysis of Six Orthodontic Journals in Science Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded: A Bibliometric Analysis

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Objective: To analyze the article type, origin, main affiliation, number of publications, authors, and affiliations of six orthodonticjournals during two intervals of 5 years each (2006-2010 and 2011-2015).Methods: In total, 4879 articles examined in this study were screened online at the individual journal’s website. The types of articlesand their authorship characteristics in the six orthodontic journals [three journals indexed by Science Citation Index (SCI) and theothers indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)] were recorded. Parameters were tested using the Pearson chi-square forindependence at a 0.05 level of significance.Results: Among all the article types, research articles were the most published in the orthodontic journals indexed by SCI and SCIE inthe first (2006-2010; 88.1% and 77.6%, respectively) and second periods (2011-2015; 84.4% and 74.6%, respectively). In the first andsecond intervals, the European Union was the most common origin among articles accepted by the journals listed in SCI (30.1% and29.2% respectively), whereas Asia/Oceania was the common origin among articles accepted by the journals listed in SCIE (44.1% and43.4%, respectively).Conclusion: The articles published in the orthodontics journals listed under SCI and SCIE for 2006-2010 and 2011-2015 were signifi-cantly different in terms of numbers and characteristics.