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81
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28470
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16492
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1506

Nigel Pitts publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nigel Pitts sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 377 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Nigel Pitts D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nigel Pitts sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 81 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Nigel Pitts is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and specializes in the field of dentistry. Their research encompasses a total of 107 publications within this main field, with significant contributions in subfields such as periodontics, general dentistry, general health professions, oral surgery, and orthodontics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including dental health and care utilization, oral microbiology and periodontitis research, dental research related to COVID-19, dental education and practice research, dental radiography and imaging, dental erosion and treatment, and dental anxiety and anesthesia techniques.

Several of their recent papers illustrate the scope of their research:

  • Understanding dental caries as a non-communicable disease, 2021, BDJ
  • Early Introduction of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Caries Trajectories from Age 12 to 48 Months, 2020, Journal of Dental Research
  • Dental caries prevalence, prospects, and challenges for Latin America and Caribbean countries: a summary and final recommendations from a Regional Consensus, 2021, Brazilian Oral Research
  • Risk-based, 6-monthly and 24-monthly dental check-ups for adults: the INTERVAL three-arm RCT, 2020, Health Technology Assessment
  • Reorienting Oral Health Services to Prevention: Economic Perspectives, 2021, Journal of Dental Research

Frequent collaborators include Stefanía Martignon, Tim Newton, Jennifer E. Gallagher, Ninoska Abreu-Placeres, and Gail Douglas. Their scholarly work has appeared prominently in journals such as BDJ, BMC Oral Health, Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, JDR Clinical & Translational Research, and Research Square.

  • BDJ
  • BMC Oral Health
  • Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology
  • JDR Clinical & Translational Research
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Nigel Pitts has been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh since 2002.

Best Publications

  • The International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS): an integrated system for measuring dental caries.

    Amid Ismail;Woosung Sohn;M Tellez;Ashley Amaya

  • Changing the behavior of healthcare professionals: the use of theory in promoting the uptake of research findings

    Martin Eccles;Jeremy Grimshaw;Anne Walker;Marie Johnston

  • Global burden of oral diseases: emerging concepts, management and interplay with systemic health.

    L. J. Jin;I. B. Lamster;J. S. Greenspan;Nigel Pitts

  • Performance and reproducibility of a laser fluorescence system for detection of occlusal caries in vitro.

    A. Lussi;S. Imwinkelried;N.B. Pitts;C. Longbottom

  • "ICDAS"--an international system for caries detection and assessment being developed to facilitate caries epidemiology, research and appropriate clinical management.

    Nigel Pitts

  • Early childhood caries epidemiology, aetiology, risk assessment, societal burden, management, education, and policy: Global perspective

    Norman Tinanoff;Ramon J. Baez;Carolina Diaz Guillory;Kevin J. Donly

  • International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS) and its International Caries Classification and Management System (ICCMS) - methods for staging of the caries process and enabling dentists to manage caries.

    NB Pitts;KR Ekstrand

  • Interaction of lifestyle, behaviour or systemic diseases with dental caries and periodontal diseases: consensus report of group 2 of the joint EFP/ORCA workshop on the boundaries between caries and periodontal diseases.

    Iain L.C. Chapple;Philippe Bouchard;Maria Grazia Cagetti;Guglielmo Campus

  • Terminology of Dental Caries and Dental Caries Management: Consensus Report of a Workshop Organized by ORCA and Cariology Research Group of IADR

    Vita Machiulskiene;Guglielmo Campus;Guglielmo Campus;Joana Christina Carvalho;Irene Dige

  • Are we ready to move from operative to non-operative/preventive treatment of dental caries in clinical practice?

    N B Pitts

  • International Consensus Workshop on Caries Clinical Trials (ICW-CCT)--final consensus statements: agreeing where the evidence leads.

    N. B. Pitts;John W Stamm

  • Adult Dental Health Survey 2009: common oral health conditions and their impact on the population

    D A White;G Tsakos;N B Pitts;E Fuller

  • Modern concepts of caries measurement

    N B Pitts

  • Adult dental health survey

    N M Nuttall;Jan Steele;C M Pine;D White

  • A reappraisal of the value of the bitewing radiograph in the diagnosis of posterior approximal caries.

    E A Kidd;N B Pitts

  • An in vivo comparison of radiographic and directly assessed clinical caries status of posterior approximal surfaces in primary and permanent teeth

    Nigel Pitts;P A Rimmer

  • The Effect of Varying Diagnostic Thresholds upon Clinical Caries Data for a Low Prevalence Group

    N B Pitts;H E Fyffe

  • Diagnostic tools and measurements--impact on appropriate care.

    Nigel B. Pitts

  • An Image Analysis System for the Determination of Tooth Dimensions from Study Casts: Comparison with Manual Measurements of Mesio-distal Diameter

    A.H. Brook;N.B. Pitts;F. Yau;P.K. Sandar

  • The dental caries experience of 12-year-old children in England and Wales. Surveys coordinated by the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry in 2000/2001.

    N B Pitts;J Boyles;Z J Nugent;N Thomas

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin P Eccles
Martin P Eccles Newcastle University
Marie Johnston
Marie Johnston University of Aberdeen
Jeremy M. Grimshaw
Jeremy M. Grimshaw Ottawa Hospital
Iain M. Young
Iain M. Young King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Helen V Worthington
Helen V Worthington University of Manchester
Ruth Freeman
Ruth Freeman University of Dundee
Mark J. Weal
Mark J. Weal University of Southampton
Ronald M. Harden
Ronald M. Harden University of Dundee
John D. B. Featherstone
John D. B. Featherstone University of California, San Francisco
Jill J Francis
Jill J Francis University of Melbourne

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