The original articles in Thailand Journal of Dental Public Health during 2007-2016.
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This study had an objective to study characteristics of authors and original articles in Thailand Journal of Dental Public Health (former name of Thai Dental Public Health Journal) in the past 10 years in terms of size, research topic and reference. During June-August 2016, the specific form developed for this study was used to collect censual information of published articles during 2007-2016. The data was analysed by descriptive statistics such as frequency, mean and percentage. From 190 original articles in 25 issues, 51.1% had one author. The mean number of authors per original article was 1.9 (SD=3.00). Most authors were dentist (86.3%), held a Master degree (55.8%) and worked at district hospital (33.7%). The three most common study topics, by age group, were mother and preschool children, primary school children and elderly (30.0%, 20.5% and 10.5% respectively) while working aged group was not found. The mean number of references per article was 16.1 (SD=7.01). Thai language references had higher proportion than those of English language (56.4% and 43.6% respectively). However, citations from English language journal were 34.6% which higher than other reference types.
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