Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Orthodontics journal rankings 2018
52 ranked journals · Subfield in Dentistry
Orthodontics has 52 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.90, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.38. The top three are Dental Materials, Journal of Dentistry, and Journal of Prosthodontic Research.
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 of Dentistry (4)
52 ranked journals
Filters
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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1Dental MaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.79Q1 | 5.16 0.26 down from 2017 | 583 | 15% | $4,560 | ||
2Journal of DentistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.31Q1 | 3.79 0.82 down from 2017 | 481 | 36% | $4,160 | ||
3Journal of Prosthodontic ResearchElsevier BV · Japan | 2.07Q1 | 2.91 0.01 down from 2017 | 176 | 31% | $3,000 | ||
4Clinical Cosmetic and Investigational DentistryOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.95Q1 | 3.06 1.00 up from 2017 | 46 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
5Operative DentistryIndiana University School of Dentistry · United States | 1.89Q1 | 3.08 0.56 up from 2017 | 264 | 17% | — | ||
6Journal of Prosthetic DentistryElsevier BV · United States | 1.74Q1 | 2.82 0.23 up from 2017 | 913 | 21% | $3,900 | ||
7Journal of Esthetic and Restorative DentistryWiley · United States | 1.65Q1 | 2.09 0.05 down from 2017 | 178 | 17% | $4,030 | ||
8Journal of Applied Oral ScienceOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil | 1.56Q1 | 2.34 0.19 down from 2017 | 244 | 100% | — | ||
9Clinical Oral InvestigationsSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.52Q1 | 2.84 0.23 up from 2017 | 882 | 30% | $4,790 | ||
10The International Journal of ProsthodonticsQuintessence Publishing Company · United States | 1.45Q1 | 1.98 0.20 up from 2017 | 300 | 5% | — | ||
11The Journal of Advanced ProsthodonticsOASouth Korea | 1.43Q1 | 2.06 0.21 up from 2017 | 209 | 100% | — | ||
12International Journal of BiomaterialsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 3.31 0.28 up from 2017 | 49 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
13Head & Face MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 1.98 0.76 down from 2017 | 95 | 100% | $2,890 | ||
14Progress in OrthodonticsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.27Q2 | 2.24 0.39 up from 2017 | 128 | 100% | $2,152 | ||
15European Journal of DentistryGeorg Thieme Verlag · Germany | 1.26Q2 | 1.83 0.19 down from 2017 | 299 | 100% | — | ||
16Dental Materials JournalOAJapanese Society for Dental Materials and Devices · Japan | 1.19Q2 | 1.96 0.26 up from 2017 | 388 | 100% | — | ||
17European Journal Of Oral SciencesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.18Q2 | 2.14 0.14 up from 2017 | 203 | 30% | $4,220 | ||
18The Angle OrthodontistOAE.H Angle Education and Research Foundation · United States | 1.17Q2 | 1.83 0.02 up from 2017 | 317 | 100% | — | ||
19The Saudi Journal for Dental ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.15Q2 | 1.92 1.01 up from 2017 | 46 | — | — | ||
20Journal of ProsthodonticsWiley · United States | 1.13Q2 | 1.75 0.05 down from 2017 | 431 | 15% | $4,100 | ||
21American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial OrthopedicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.13Q2 | 1.91 0.19 up from 2017 | 810 | 34% | $4,070 | ||
| 1.06Q2 | 1.60 0.16 up from 2017 | 348 | 100% | — | |||
23The Korean Journal of OrthodonticsSouth Korea | 1.04Q2 | 1.78 0.13 down from 2017 | 150 | 100% | — | ||
24Journal of Dental Research Dental Clinics Dental ProspectsOATabriz University of Medical Sciences · Iran | 0.98Q2 | 1.42 0.07 up from 2017 | 126 | 100% | — | ||
25Acta Biomaterialia Odontologica ScandinavicaOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.93Q2 | 1.59 0.48 up from 2017 | 49 | 100% | $631 | ||
26Journal of Oral ScienceOANihon University · Japan | 0.93Q2 | 1.45 0.01 up from 2017 | 223 | 100% | — | ||
27Journal of Orofacial Orthopedics / Fortschritte der KieferorthopädieSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.87Q3 | 1.34 0.46 up from 2017 | 134 | 16% | $3,190 | ||
28Orthodontics and Craniofacial ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 0.84Q3 | 1.21 1.16 down from 2017 | 147 | 20% | $4,030 | ||
29Journal of OrthodonticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.84Q3 | 1.43 0.43 up from 2017 | 111 | 32% | $4,150 | ||
30European Journal of OrthodonticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.75Q3 | 1.87 0.11 up from 2017 | 273 | 35% | $4,286 | ||
31Journal of Orthodontic ScienceOAMedknow · India | 0.74Q3 | 1.23 0.39 up from 2017 | 70 | 100% | $400 | ||
32Applied Adhesion ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.66Q3 | 0.89 0.30 down from 2017 | 60 | 100% | $1,570 | ||
33Dental Press Journal of OrthodonticsOADental Press Editora · Brazil | 0.66Q3 | 1.01 0.04 up from 2017 | 236 | 100% | — | ||
34Seminars in OrthodonticsElsevier BV · United States | 0.63Q3 | 0.48 0.43 down from 2017 | 97 | 9% | $2,810 | ||
35Acta Stomatologica CroaticaOASchool of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb · Croatia | 0.52Q3 | 0.69 0.13 up from 2017 | 151 | 100% | — | ||
36European Journal of General DentistryThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) | 0.29Q3 | 0.39 0.08 down from 2017 | 79 | 100% | — | ||
37Australasian Orthodontic JournalOAExeley Inc · Australia | 0.29Q3 | 0.20 0.38 down from 2017 | 81 | 90% | — | ||
38Brazilian journal of oral sciences/Brazilian Journal of Oral SciencesOAUniversity of Campinas · Brazil | 0.28Q3 | 0.25 0.20 down from 2017 | 171 | 100% | — | ||
39South European Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial ResearchOADentitio · Croatia | 0.25Q3 | 0.52 0.08 up from 2017 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
40International OrthodonticsElsevier BV · France | 0.23Q4 | 0.45 0.02 down from 2017 | 217 | 2% | $2,570 | ||
41APOS Trends in OrthodonticsOAMedknow · India | 0.21Q4 | 0.43 0.25 up from 2017 | 142 | 100% | — | ||
42Journal of the World Federation of OrthodontistsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.18Q4 | 0.29 0.08 up from 2017 | 72 | 11% | $3,000 | ||
43Orthodontic WavesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.17Q4 | 0.35 0.10 up from 2017 | 63 | 3% | $3,000 | ||
44STOMATOLOGY EDU JOURNALOARomanian Academy · Romania | 0.15Q4 | 0.21 0.07 down from 2017 | 143 | 100% | — | ||
45Journal of Baghdad College of DentistryOAUniversity of Baghdad · Iraq | 0.13Q4 | 0.19 0.01 up from 2017 | 120 | 100% | — | ||
46Journal of Orthodontics & EndodonticsOAUnited States | 0.13Q4 | 0.26 0.14 up from 2017 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
47Turkish Journal of OrthodonticsOATürkiye | 0.12Q4 | 0.18 0.08 up from 2017 | 51 | 96% | — | ||
48Journal of Dental Health Oral Disorders and TherapyOAMedCrave Group · United States | 0.10Q4 | 0.13 0.01 down from 2017 | 244 | 100% | — | ||
49Revista Mexicana de OrtodonciaOACIG Media Group · Mexico | 0.05Q4 | 0.06 0.01 down from 2017 | 205 | 100% | — | ||
50Journal of Dentistry and Oral CareOAUnited States | 0.04Q4 | 0.03 0.06 down from 2017 | 55 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Dentistry, with Orthodontics highlighted.
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.
6 additional Orthodontics 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
- 52
- Window papers (baseline)
- 14,785 +16.4% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.90 +8.1% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 15 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 21 | 23 | 26 | 26 | 29 | 32 | 34 | 36 | 42 | 47 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 51 | 50 | 49 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 2,965 | 3,214 | 3,435 | 3,810 | 4,076 | 4,667 | 5,216 | 5,902 | 6,739 | 7,547 | 8,711 | 9,667 | 10,554 | 11,151 | 11,919 | 12,701 | 13,488 | 14,092 | 14,785 | 15,663 | 16,326 | 17,569 | 19,319 | 20,634 | 21,353 | 21,761 | |
| Median OJR | 0.77 | 0.58 | 0.63 | 0.49 | 0.612 | 0.68 | 0.608 | 0.70 | 0.71 | 0.877 | 0.965 | 0.949 | 0.974 | 0.93 | 0.8864 | 0.84 | 0.86 | 0.878 | 0.90 | 0.8861 | 0.91 | 0.946 | 0.99 | 0.972 | 1.01 | 0.893 |
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.