Author: Li Xian
Translated by: Wu Xia
On March 12, the International Association of Dental Research and the Journal of Dental Research jointly released on the official website a paper by Bian Zhuan, Meng Liuyan and Hua Fang from Wuhan University Stomatology Hospital. The paper introduced the on practice and recommendations for dental medicine and dental medicine education during the epidemic. After the paper was published, it attracted wide attention and continued hot discussion in the global stomatology filed.
According to official data from the Journal of Dental Research (hereinafter referred to as JDR), as of March 29, the full text of the paper has been downloaded and viewed 165,645 times, and the Altmetric Attention Score (AAS) is as high as 328, ranking 1st among the 2837 papers in the JDR Journal. It is reported that the Altmetric scoring began in 2010, by tracking the number of times the paper has been reposted and discussed on international mainstream social media, news, guides and other Internet platforms, to evaluate the international social impact of the paper.
Relevant data shows that 358 dental academic institutions, scientists and scholars in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Ireland, Indonesia, France, Mexico, Japan and other countries have reposted this article via Twitter, blog, news website with comments.
The editor-in-chief of the JDR also invited the authors of the paper to respond to readers' questions, which will be published in the journal. At present, the corresponding author of this article has received e-mails from all over the world to inquire about epidemic prevention measures. The author timely answered questions and doubts of readers through e-mail, social media and remote video.
After the paper was published, it was well received by the world's stomatology community. The experts of the hospital received online invitations from various countries in the world. On March 25, the German Dental Implant Association invited Professor Bian to participate in a remote video online seminar. Bian Zhuan launched a topic entitled "Are Health Care Workers in Dental Practice at Higher Risk of COVID-19 Infection?-WHUSS at the epicenter of COVID-19 outbreak ". This webinar not only spread rapidly in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, but also in the United States, France, Britain and other countries. More than 9,000 audiences worldwide listened online. The association sent a thank-you note saying, "Professor Bian received a lot of positive feedback in his speech, and the online seminar was considered very useful and practical."
With the continued development of the domestic epidemic situation, on March 15, Professor Bian Zhuan, who is the vice president of the Chinese Stomatology Association and the chairman of the Dental Pulp Committee, shared the successful experience of the hospital's prevention and control management in oral medicine with more than 20,000 colleagues on the Chinese Stomatology Association online cloud platform.
In the near future, Bian Zhuan will also be invited to introduce the prevention and control experience of Wuhan University School of Stomatology at a remote conference jointly hosted by Harvard Dental School and Fusai Dental Institute to provide a "China solution" for the prevention and control of epidemics in the world's stomatology community.
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