Tendencias de publicación sobre técnicas para huellas de mordedura humana en odontología forense. Análisis bibliométrico

Abstract

Objectives: to identify the trend of publications related to the different techniques of analysis of bite marks in forensic dentistry as well as authors, institutions and countries that have researched the most about the subject. Methods: a bibliometric analysis was performed from the search of articles published in the Scopus, Pubmed, Embase and WOS databases published between 1960 and 2016 and in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Those that made reference to bite marks in food and animals and those that were not recover in full text were excluded. The variables under study were number of authors, citations, references, year of publication, language, country, among others. The analysis of the information was made in the Vantage point 9.0 program. Results: a total of 138 articles were identified. The Scopus database provided the highest number of articles incorporated (65.47%) followed by Pubmed (23.02%). The maximum peak of publications was the year 2011 (19). The language that was most reported in the results was English (99%). The country where most was published was the United States (26.62%). The type of article that predominated was the report of cases (44.20%). Regarding the techniques used, fixation with photography was the most frequent (25.18%), followed by the DNA technique of saliva sample (20.14%).