This study analyzed the growth of the scientific literature in the dental area, as available from NCBI PubMed, using standard bibliometric techniques. Bradford’s law of scattering was used to identify core journals and Lotka’s law employed to analyze author’s productivity pattern. The bibliometric analysis of the journal “Indian Journal of Dental Research Studies’ (2002-2004)” showed a trend of growth in contributions, and average number of contributions was 8.5 per volume. Majority of the dentists preferred to do collaborative research and contribute their papers jointly. Most of the contributions were Original Articles/ Research (79 out of 103 articles). The institutional and geographical distribution of contributions was calculated. Most of the contributions were from Karnataka followed by Tamil Nadu. Most of the contributions were with citations. Majority of the dentists cited journals in large numbers (452), while books came second with 150 citations. ‘Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology & Endodontics’ occupied the 1st rank and ‘Journal of Periodontology’ the 2nd rank in the ranked list of cited journals.

Keywords: Bibliometrics; Bibliometric technique; Citation snalysis; Indian Journal of Dental Research;
Dentists; Cited journals.