Mapping the Structure of Dentistry Discipline, among Middle Eastern Countries (2010-2020)

Awareness of the status of academic products in dentistry can help researchers in this discipline to make decision; This study outlines the academic structure of a decade of research (2010-2020) in dentistry in the Middle Eastern countries.

The required data were extracted from the science citation index. The collection includes all documents produced in the dentistry by authors from Middle Eastern countries, between 2010 to 2020. The studied scientific documents include 2653 scientific documents. Scientometric method was employed to map the scientific structure.

The field of Dentistry Oral Surgery Medicine had the highest rate of scientific production among the disciplines of dentistry. The academic structure of this discipline consists of 7 clusters. Tehran University of Medical Sciences was ranked third in the list of top universities in the Middle East. Iran ranked third in the Middle East, with corona lexical connections, pandemics, protocols, transmissions, and corona-related issues evident.

Creating an emerging cluster centered on Covid and allocating 74 articles and 12 co-occurrences during a year (2019-2020) shows the concerns of dentists due to the imposed conditions of Corona disease. Dental problems and concerns caused by the Covid 19 epidemic.