OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Dental Research is 38. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Gestational Serum Retinol Deficiency Is Associated with Enamel Hypoplasia	144
Preconception Oral Health Is Associated with Modifiable Health Behaviors	143
Circ-Slain2 Alleviates Cartilage Degradation and Inflammation of TMJOA	105
Tough Adhesive Hydrogel for Intraoral Adhesion and Drug Delivery	87
Dual-Functional Ionic Liquid Varnishes for Dental Caries Management	87
Multispecialty Dental EMRs from Chairside Audio: An Exploratory Study	77
Prevotella intermedia –Derived Extracellular Vesicles Promote Pulpitis	73
Extracellular Vesicles in Regenerative Dentistry	72
Zinc- and Fluoride-Releasing Bioactive Glass as a Novel Bone Substitute	71
Injectable Hydrogel as Intracanal Medication for Root Canal Disinfection	64
Dental Service Use during the 30 Years before Type 2 Diabetes Onset	62
Masticatory Behavior Change with a Wearable Chewing Counter: A Randomized Controlled Trial	59
Ben Hammond: Oral Microbiologist, Renaissance Man	58
Polymicrobial Infection Induces Adipose Tissue Dysfunction via Gingival Extracellular Vesicles	58
Genetically Supported Drug Targets and Dental Traits: A Mendelian Randomization Study	57
Harold C. Slavkin: A Transformative Leader of Our Times	57
The AADOCR Position Statement on Community Water Fluoridation	56
Disability Weights for Orofacial Pain	56
Restoring Cellular Homeostasis as a Therapeutic Strategy for Periodontitis	48
CREB3L2 Regulates Hemidesmosome Formation during Epithelial Sealing	48
Sex as a Biological Variable in Oral Diseases: Evidence and Future Prospects	47
Occlusal Force Maintains Alveolar Bone Homeostasis via Type H Angiogenesis	46
The Emerging Role of Accelerated Cellular Senescence in Periodontitis	43
H ₂ S-Scavenging Hydrogel Alleviating Mitochondria Damage to Control Periodontitis	43
Advancing a Global Oral Health Research Agenda	43

Butyrate Inhibits Dendritic Cell Activation and Alleviates Periodontitis	43
Disability Weights for Global Burden Estimation of Orofacial Pain	43
Aberrant Proliferation and Cell Fate Underlie Oral Defects in a Mouse Model of EvC Syndrome	42
A Roadmap for the Human Oral and Craniofacial Cell Atlas	42
Oral Health as a Marker of Social Progress	42
Salivary Gland Tissue Recombination Can Modify Cell Fate	41
Induction of Oral Lichen Planus–like Histopathology in Mice	40
Immune Dysregulation in the Oral Cavity during Early SARS-CoV-2 Infection	40
Uncovering the Genetic Architecture of NSCPO in Chinese via Subtype GWAS	40
Oral Biofilm Cryotherapy as a Novel Ecological Modulation Approach	40
A Variant in the IRF6 Promoter Associated with the Risk for Orofacial Clefting	39
TMD Diagnosis Using a Masked Self-Supervised Tabular Transformer	38
Ang1/Tie2/VE-Cadherin Signaling Regulates DPSCs in Vascular Maturation	38