Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Field ranking · 2018
Dentistry journal rankings 2018
190 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Dentistry has 190 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.78, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.18. The top three are Periodontology 2000, Caries Research, and Dental Materials.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields in Dentistry (4)
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Periodontology 2000Wiley · United Kingdom | 5.77Q1 | 9.22 1.03 up from 2017 | 127 | 27% | $4,430 | ||
2Caries ResearchKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 3.01Q1 | 4.91 0.25 down from 2017 | 222 | 35% | — | ||
3Dental MaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.79Q1 | 5.16 0.26 down from 2017 | 583 | 15% | $4,560 | ||
4Journal of Dental ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.77Q1 | 5.37 0.55 down from 2017 | 619 | 58% | $4,400 | ||
5Journal of EndodonticsElsevier BV · United States | 2.63Q1 | 4.15 0.12 down from 2017 | 976 | 15% | $4,390 | ||
6Journal Of Clinical PeriodontologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 4.87 0.79 up from 2017 | 446 | 74% | $5,510 | ||
7International Endodontic JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 2.48Q1 | 3.94 0.50 up from 2017 | 364 | 26% | $4,880 | ||
8Journal of DentistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.31Q1 | 3.79 0.82 down from 2017 | 481 | 36% | $4,160 | ||
9Journal of Oral MicrobiologyOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 3.81 1.13 down from 2017 | 87 | 100% | $2,428 | ||
10Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related ResearchWiley · Canada | 2.21Q1 | 3.51 0.90 up from 2017 | 262 | 17% | $4,780 | ||
11Clinical Oral Implants ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 3.72 0.54 up from 2017 | 486 | 73% | $5,170 | ||
12Journal of Prosthodontic ResearchElsevier BV · Japan | 2.07Q1 | 2.91 0.01 down from 2017 | 176 | 31% | $3,000 | ||
13Journal of PeriodontologyWiley · United States | 1.97Q1 | 3.48 0.24 down from 2017 | 454 | 33% | $5,000 | ||
14Clinical Cosmetic and Investigational DentistryOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.95Q1 | 3.06 1.00 up from 2017 | 46 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
15Operative DentistryIndiana University School of Dentistry · United States | 1.89Q1 | 3.08 0.56 up from 2017 | 264 | 17% | — | ||
16BMC Oral HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 2.92 0.38 up from 2017 | 471 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
17Journal of Prosthetic DentistryElsevier BV · United States | 1.74Q1 | 2.82 0.23 up from 2017 | 913 | 21% | $3,900 | ||
18International Journal of Implant DentistryOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.69Q1 | 2.82 0.63 up from 2017 | 107 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
19Journal of Esthetic and Restorative DentistryWiley · United States | 1.65Q1 | 2.09 0.05 down from 2017 | 178 | 17% | $4,030 | ||
20Community Dentistry And Oral EpidemiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 2.80 0.27 up from 2017 | 209 | 36% | $4,230 | ||
21Dental Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 1.59Q1 | 2.52 0.97 up from 2017 | 149 | 9% | $3,000 | ||
22Journal of Applied Oral ScienceOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil | 1.56Q1 | 2.34 0.19 down from 2017 | 244 | 100% | — | ||
23Clinical Oral InvestigationsSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.52Q1 | 2.84 0.23 up from 2017 | 882 | 30% | $4,790 | ||
24International Dental JournalOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 1.91 0.34 up from 2017 | 159 | 88% | $2,550 | ||
25International Journal of DentistryOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 2.16 0.14 down from 2017 | 197 | 100% | $1,560 | ||
26The International Journal of ProsthodonticsQuintessence Publishing Company · United States | 1.45Q1 | 1.98 0.20 up from 2017 | 300 | 5% | — | ||
27The Journal of Advanced ProsthodonticsOASouth Korea | 1.43Q1 | 2.06 0.21 up from 2017 | 209 | 100% | — | ||
28Brazilian Oral ResearchOABrazilian Society of Dental Research · Brazil | 1.43Q1 | 2.31 0.44 up from 2017 | 360 | 100% | — | ||
29International Journal of BiomaterialsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 3.31 0.28 up from 2017 | 49 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
30Restorative Dentistry & EndodonticsOAKorean Academy of Conservative Dentistry · South Korea | 1.42Q1 | 1.57 0.26 down from 2017 | 146 | 100% | — | ||
31The International Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial ImplantsQuintessence Publishing Company · United States | 1.39Q1 | 1.84 0.18 up from 2017 | 566 | 4% | — | ||
32Head & Face MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 1.98 0.76 down from 2017 | 95 | 100% | $2,890 | ||
33Journal of Periodontal ResearchWiley · Denmark | 1.34Q1 | 3.03 0.25 up from 2017 | 251 | 26% | $4,880 | ||
34The Saudi Dental JournalOAElsevier BV · Saudi Arabia | 1.32Q1 | 2.00 0.26 up from 2017 | 112 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
35Japanese Dental Science ReviewOAElsevier BV · Japan | 1.31Q1 | 2.83 0.90 up from 2017 | 41 | 100% | $2,160 | ||
36Molecular Oral MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.31Q1 | 2.32 0.85 down from 2017 | 115 | 59% | $4,250 | ||
37Progress in OrthodonticsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.27Q1 | 2.24 0.39 up from 2017 | 128 | 100% | $2,152 | ||
38Brazilian Dental JournalOAFundação Odontológica de Ribeirão Preto · Brazil | 1.27Q1 | 1.88 0.18 up from 2017 | 374 | 100% | $104 | ||
39Imaging Science in DentistryOASouth Korea | 1.27Q1 | 1.42 0.23 down from 2017 | 120 | 100% | $276 | ||
40European Journal of DentistryGeorg Thieme Verlag · Germany | 1.26Q1 | 1.83 0.19 down from 2017 | 299 | 100% | — | ||
41JDR Clinical & Translational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.26Q1 | 1.91 0.74 up from 2017 | 88 | 48% | $4,400 | ||
42Dentomaxillofacial RadiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.25Q1 | 2.21 0.51 up from 2017 | 246 | 100% | $3,005 | ||
43OdontologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 1.22Q1 | 2.04 0.11 up from 2017 | 134 | 29% | $4,690 | ||
44SWISS DENTAL JOURNAL SSO – Science and Clinical TopicsSpringer Nature | 1.21Q1 | 1.80 0.62 up from 2017 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
45Journal of Conservative DentistryMedknow · India | 1.20Q1 | 1.55 0.09 down from 2017 | 324 | 100% | — | ||
46Dental Materials JournalOAJapanese Society for Dental Materials and Devices · Japan | 1.19Q1 | 1.96 0.26 up from 2017 | 388 | 100% | — | ||
47European Journal Of Oral SciencesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.18Q1 | 2.14 0.14 up from 2017 | 203 | 30% | $4,220 | ||
48International Journal of Paediatric DentistryWiley · United Kingdom | 1.18Q1 | 2.48 0.50 up from 2017 | 166 | 16% | $4,650 | ||
49Australian Endodontic JournalWiley · Australia | 1.18Q2 | 1.48 0.31 down from 2017 | 64 | 6% | $3,120 | ||
50The Angle OrthodontistOAE.H Angle Education and Research Foundation · United States | 1.17Q2 | 1.83 0.02 up from 2017 | 317 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Dentistry, compared.
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
34 additional Dentistry journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 190
- Window papers (baseline)
- 56,551 +17.8% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.777 -1.2% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 15Comparison-group list (15)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 56 | 64 | 66 | 66 | 71 | 73 | 76 | 82 | 89 | 90 | 102 | 119 | 131 | 141 | 152 | 164 | 176 | 180 | 190 | 187 | 181 | 179 | 181 | 177 | 176 | 171 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 10,712 | 11,566 | 12,472 | 14,068 | 15,323 | 17,298 | 19,058 | 21,240 | 23,674 | 26,378 | 30,251 | 34,133 | 38,013 | 41,016 | 44,457 | 47,990 | 51,254 | 53,867 | 56,551 | 59,238 | 62,450 | 70,264 | 80,243 | 86,163 | 86,855 | 87,004 | |
| Median OJR | 0.760 | 0.66 | 0.64 | 0.67 | 0.75 | 0.721 | 0.762 | 0.824 | 0.8439 | 0.88 | 0.8438 | 0.74 | 0.725 | 0.69 | 0.80 | 0.79 | 0.77 | 0.763 | 0.777 | 0.785 | 0.89 | 0.90 | 0.817 | 0.825 | 0.831 | 0.781 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.5% | 139 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.648 per 1,000 | 136 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -1.0% | 165 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 100.0% | 171 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,240 | 94 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 25.0% | 164 journals |
| Review share | Median: 5.5% | 171 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.81 | 171 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 32.5% | 171 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 42.2% | 171 journals |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.