OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Periodontology 2000 is 6. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The oral microbiome: Role of key organisms and complex networks in oral health and disease	279
The dental plaque biofilm matrix	188
Microbial signatures of health, gingivitis, and periodontitis	173
Oral health’s inextricable connection to systemic health: Special populations bring to bear multimodal relationships and factors connecting periodontal disease to systemic diseases and conditions	153
Interconnection of periodontal disease and comorbidities: Evidence, mechanisms, and implications	152
Polymicrobial communities in periodontal disease: Their quasi‐organismal nature and dialogue with the host	144
Osteoporosis and periodontal diseases – An update on their association and mechanistic links	124
Peri‐implantitis is not periodontitis: Scientific discoveries shed light on microbiome‐biomaterial interactions that may determine disease phenotype	107
Resilience of the oral microbiome	103
Prosthetic failures in dental implant therapy	98
Oral health‐related quality of life of patients rehabilitated with fixed and removable implant‐supported dental prostheses	95
Association between metabolic syndrome and periodontitis: The role of lipids, inflammatory cytokines, altered host response, and the microbiome	89
Maintaining homeostatic control of periodontal bone tissue	83
A bibliometric analysis of periodontology	83
Risk factors for periodontitis & peri‐implantitis	79
Periodontitis and rheumatoid arthritis: What have we learned about their connection and their treatment?	72
Microbial transitions from health to disease	68
Surgical therapy of peri‐implantitis	66
Periodontitis and cardiometabolic disorders: The role of lipopolysaccharide and endotoxemia	64
Frailty, aging, and periodontal disease: Basic biologic considerations	64
Optimizing the quality of clinical studies on oral microbiome: A practical guide for planning, performing, and reporting	61
Acquisition and establishment of the oral microbiota	61
Impact of systemic factors in shaping the periodontal microbiome	61
Reducing errors in guided implant surgery to optimize treatment outcomes	60
Oral and periodontal implications of tobacco and nicotine products	60

Role of Porphyromonas gingivalis in oral and orodigestive squamous cell carcinoma	59
Fusobacterium nucleatum and cancer	57
Complications in sinus lifting procedures: Classification and management	56
Viruses, periodontitis, and comorbidities	56
Oral biofilms revisited: A novel host tissue of bacteriological origin	56
Probiotics for periodontal health—Current molecular findings	55
Periodontal disease–related nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: An emerging concept of oral‐liver axis	54
Complications in bone‐grafting procedures: Classification and management	54
Management and prevention of soft tissue complications in implant dentistry	53
Periodontitis, chronic liver diseases, and the emerging oral‐gut‐liver axis	51
It is all about peri‐implant tissue health	50
Periodontal microorganisms and Alzheimer disease – A causative relationship?	49
Periodontitis and implant complications in diabetes	45
Can computer‐assisted implant surgery improve clinical outcomes and reduce the frequency and intensity of complications in implant dentistry? A critical review	45
Etiology, occurrence, and consequences of implant loss	44
Periodontal microbiology and microbial etiology of periodontal diseases: Historical concepts and contemporary perspectives	44
Mental health and periodontal and peri‐implant diseases	43
Environmental factors and periodontal microbiome	43
The role of cigarette smoking in periodontal disease and treatment outcomes of dental implant therapy	43
Dendritic cells a critical link to alveolar bone loss and systemic disease risk in periodontitis: Immunotherapeutic implications	42
Inflammation as a link between periodontal disease and obesity	42
Periodontal health and disease: The contribution of genetics	41
The role of foreign body response in peri‐implantitis: What is the evidence?	41
The psychobiological links between chronic stress‐related diseases, periodontal/peri‐implant diseases, and wound healing	40
Oral microbiome shifts during pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes: Hormonal and Immunologic changes at play	37
Did Omics change periodontal therapy?	35
Esthetic complications in implant dentistry	35
Maintaining a protective state for human periodontal tissue	35
Oral bacteria, oral health, and adverse pregnancy outcomes	34
Association between periodontitis and chronic kidney disease	33
Periodontology and pregnancy: An overview of biomedical and epidemiological evidence	33
Paradigm shift in the pathogenesis and treatment of oral cancer and other cancers focused on the oralome and antimicrobial‐based therapeutics	32
Periodontitis and coronavirus disease 2019	32
Metaproteome and metabolome of oral microbial communities	32
The evolutionary history of the human oral microbiota and its implications for modern health	30
Metatranscriptomic analyses of the oral microbiome	29
The human oral phageome	29
Periodontal connection with intestinal inflammation: Microbiological and immunological mechanisms	28
Minimal invasiveness at dental implant placement: A systematic review with meta‐analyses on flapless fully guided surgery	28
Influence of epigenetics on periodontitis and peri‐implantitis pathogenesis	27
Alveolar ridge preservation: Complications and cost‐effectiveness	26
The human oral virome: Shedding light on the dark matter	26
Peri‐implantitis as the consequence of errors in implant therapy	26
Spatial scale in analysis of the dental plaque microbiome	25
Wound healing dynamics, morbidity, and complications of palatal soft‐tissue harvesting	25
Alzheimer disease and the periodontal patient: New insights, connections, and therapies	24
Pros and cons of causative association between periodontitis and rheumatoid arthritis	24
Minimal invasiveness in soft tissue augmentation at dental implants: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of patient‐reported outcome measures	23
Waistline to the gumline: Relationship between obesity and periodontal disease‐biological and management considerations	23
Management and sequelae of dental implant removal	22

Microbiomics: Were we all wrong before?	22
Subgingival fungi, Archaea, and viruses under the omics loupe	21
The role of the host—Neutrophil biology	20
Clinical and patient‐reported outcomes of tissue engineering strategies for periodontal and peri‐implant reconstruction	20
The role of systemic diseases and local conditions as risk factors	20
Treatment planning considerations in the older adult with periodontal disease	20
Maladaptive trained immunity and clonal hematopoiesis as potential mechanistic links between periodontitis and inflammatory comorbidities	19
Probing periodontal microbial dark matter using metataxonomics and metagenomics	19
Impact of calorie restriction and intermittent fasting on periodontal health	19
Fungal diseases: Oral dysbiosis in susceptible hosts	19
Complications and treatment errors related to regenerative periodontal surgery	19
Clinical periodontal diagnosis	18
Human and herpesvirus microRNAs in periodontal disease	18
Maintaining homeostatic control of periodontal epithelial tissue	17
Complications and treatment errors in implant positioning in the aesthetic zone: Diagnosis and possible solutions	17
Membrane barriers for guided bone regeneration: An overview of available biomaterials	17
Biological mechanisms underlying complications related to implant site preparation	16
Oral health status and the etiology and prevention of nonventilator hospital‐associated pneumonia	15
Optimization of platelet‐rich fibrin	15
Periodontitis and peri‐implantitis in elderly people experiencing institutional and hospital confinement	14
Techniques on vertical ridge augmentation: Indications and effectiveness	13
Complications and treatment errors involving periodontal tissues related to orthodontic therapy	13
Minimal invasiveness in the reconstructive treatment of peri‐implantitis defects	13
Impact of health and lifestyle food supplements on periodontal tissues and health	12
Periodontitis and metabolic diseases (diabetes and obesity): Tackling multimorbidity	12
Omics and interspecies interaction	12
Minimal invasiveness in the transcrestal elevation of the maxillary sinus floor: A systematic review	12
How to avoid intraoperative and postoperative complications in maxillary sinus elevation	11
Sinus augmentation procedure via the lateral window technique—Reducing invasiveness and preventing complications: A narrative review	11
Behavioral strategies for periodontal health	11
Myeloid‐derived suppressor cells in obesity‐associated periodontal disease: A conceptual model	11
Minimal invasiveness in nonsurgical periodontal therapy	10
Complications and treatment errors in periodontal and implant therapy	10
Bone reconstruction of extensive maxillomandibular defects in adults	10
Minimal invasiveness in vertical ridge augmentation	10
Bone regeneration in implant dentistry: Which are the factors affecting the clinical outcome?	9
Concise evaluation and therapeutic guidelines for severe periodontitis: A public health perspective	9
Subgingival instrumentation	9
Periodontitis and risk of cancer: Mechanistic evidence	9
Is alveolar ridge preservation an overtreatment?	9
Guided bone regeneration in implant dentistry: Basic principle, progress over 35 years, and recent research activities	8
Does implant location influence the risk of peri‐implantitis?	8
Do autologous platelet concentrates (APCs) have a role in intra‐oral bone regeneration? A critical review of clinical guidelines on decision‐making process	8
Drug‐associated bone resorption with potential dental and implant implications	8
Eating disorders through the periodontal lens	8
Extended platelet‐rich fibrin	8
Complications and treatment errors in root coverage procedures	8
Antimicrobial effect of platelet‐rich fibrin: A systematic review of in vitro evidence‐based studies	7
The importance of soft tissue condition in bone regenerative procedures to ensure long‐term peri‐implant health	7
Avoiding errors and complications related to immediate implant placement in the esthetic area with a mucogingival approach	7
Increasing the margin of patient safety for periodontal and implant treatments: The role of human factors	7
3D printing for bone regeneration: challenges and opportunities for achieving predictability	7
Minimal invasiveness in the alveolar ridge preservation, with or without concomitant implant placement	7
Biological biomarkers of oral cancer	7
Complications and treatment errors in peri‐implant soft tissue management	7
Outcomes of periodontal therapy: Strengthening the relevance of research to patients. A co‐created review	7
Optimized bone grafting	7
Herpesvirus‐Bacteria pathogenic interaction in juvenile (aggressive) periodontitis. A novel etiologic concept of the disease	7
Illegal drugs and periodontal conditions	7
Differences between first‐ and second‐generation autologous platelet concentrates	6
Europe's contribution to the evaluation of the use of systemic antimicrobials in the treatment of periodontitis	6
Periodontitis and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: A critical appraisal	6
Osteoinduction and osteoimmunology: Emerging concepts	6
Understanding exosomes: Part 1—Characterization, quantification and isolation techniques	6
Socioeconomic determinants of periodontitis	6
Efficacy of biomaterials for lateral bone augmentation performed with guided bone regeneration. A network meta‐analysis	6
Etiology, pathogenesis and treatment of peri‐implantitis: A European perspective	6