Congratulations to Drs. Tanja Bekhuis and Heiko Spallek for their recent highly viewed paper.

This paper is about the connection between oral health and systemic disease. It has “one of the highest ever scores” computed by Altmetrics for the BMC Oral Health Journal.  It was ranked #2 out of 166 publications.

Details about the paper:

Song M, O’Donnell JA, Bekhuis T, Spallek H, Are dentists interested in the oral-systemic disease connection? A qualitative study of an online community of 450 practitioners. BMC Oral Health. 2013 Nov 21;13:65. doi: 10.1186/1472-6831-13-65.  Read More

The paper is a follow-up to their methods paper:

Bekhuis T, Kreinacke M, Spallek H, Song M, O’Donnell JA. Using natural language processing to enable in-depth analysis of clinical messages posted to an Internet mailing list: a feasibility study. J Med Internet Res. 2011 Nov 23;13(4):e98. doi: 10.2196/jmir.1799.   Read More