OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Periodontology 2000 is 27. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The oral microbiome: Role of key organisms and complex networks in oral health and disease	267
The dental plaque biofilm matrix	184
Microbial signatures of health, gingivitis, and periodontitis	166
Interconnection of periodontal disease and comorbidities: Evidence, mechanisms, and implications	149
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	146
Polymicrobial communities in periodontal disease: Their quasi‐organismal nature and dialogue with the host	141
Osteoporosis and periodontal diseases – An update on their association and mechanistic links	122
Peri‐implantitis is not periodontitis: Scientific discoveries shed light on microbiome‐biomaterial interactions that may determine disease phenotype	106
Resilience of the oral microbiome	102
Prosthetic failures in dental implant therapy	95
Oral health‐related quality of life of patients rehabilitated with fixed and removable implant‐supported dental prostheses	92
Association between metabolic syndrome and periodontitis: The role of lipids, inflammatory cytokines, altered host response, and the microbiome	86
Maintaining homeostatic control of periodontal bone tissue	82
A bibliometric analysis of periodontology	80
Risk factors for periodontitis & peri‐implantitis	76
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	64
Frailty, aging, and periodontal disease: Basic biologic considerations	63
Periodontitis and cardiometabolic disorders: The role of lipopolysaccharide and endotoxemia	61
Impact of systemic factors in shaping the periodontal microbiome	60
Oral and periodontal implications of tobacco and nicotine products	60
Acquisition and establishment of the oral microbiota	59
Optimizing the quality of clinical studies on oral microbiome: A practical guide for planning, performing, and reporting	58
Role of Porphyromonas gingivalis in oral and orodigestive squamous cell carcinoma	58

Reducing errors in guided implant surgery to optimize treatment outcomes	58
Complications in sinus lifting procedures: Classification and management	55
Probiotics for periodontal health—Current molecular findings	55
Oral biofilms revisited: A novel host tissue of bacteriological origin	55
Fusobacterium nucleatum and cancer	55
Periodontal disease–related nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: An emerging concept of oral‐liver axis	53
Complications in bone‐grafting procedures: Classification and management	53
Viruses, periodontitis, and comorbidities	52
Management and prevention of soft tissue complications in implant dentistry	51
Periodontitis, chronic liver diseases, and the emerging oral‐gut‐liver axis	50
It is all about peri‐implant tissue health	49
Periodontal microorganisms and Alzheimer disease – A causative relationship?	47
Periodontitis and implant complications in diabetes	44
Etiology, occurrence, and consequences of implant loss	44
Can computer‐assisted implant surgery improve clinical outcomes and reduce the frequency and intensity of complications in implant dentistry? A critical review	43
Periodontal microbiology and microbial etiology of periodontal diseases: Historical concepts and contemporary perspectives	43
Mental health and periodontal and peri‐implant diseases	42
Environmental factors and periodontal microbiome	42
The role of cigarette smoking in periodontal disease and treatment outcomes of dental implant therapy	42
Dendritic cells a critical link to alveolar bone loss and systemic disease risk in periodontitis: Immunotherapeutic implications	41
Inflammation as a link between periodontal disease and obesity	40
The psychobiological links between chronic stress‐related diseases, periodontal/peri‐implant diseases, and wound healing	40
Periodontal health and disease: The contribution of genetics	40
The role of foreign body response in peri‐implantitis: What is the evidence?	39
Oral microbiome shifts during pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes: Hormonal and Immunologic changes at play	37
Maintaining a protective state for human periodontal tissue	35
Association between periodontitis and chronic kidney disease	34
Esthetic complications in implant dentistry	34
Did Omics change periodontal therapy?	34
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
Oral bacteria, oral health, and adverse pregnancy outcomes	32
Periodontitis and coronavirus disease 2019	32
Metaproteome and metabolome of oral microbial communities	31
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	27