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Journal rankings · indicator year 2020

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Subfield ranking · 2020

Periodontics journal rankings 2020

38 ranked journals · Subfield in Dentistry

Periodontics has 38 ranked journals in 2020. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.10 against 1.00, up 0.01 on 2019. A journal needs OJR 1.68 to reach Q1. The top three are Periodontology 2000, Journal Of Clinical Periodontology, and Journal of Periodontology.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 score is computed on.

38
21% of Dentistry
Median OJR

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.

1.10+0.01 vs 2019
This subfieldAll 0.82World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

37%
All fields: 35%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,800
Median positive listed APC: $3,800 among 29 journals. 9 have no known price. All fields: $3,300.

Subfields of Dentistry (4)

38 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

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Periodontics ranking, 2020

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.

OJR

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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020.

Compare
1Periodontology 2000Wiley · United Kingdom
5.12Q18.70 0.01 up from 201913533%$4,430
2Journal Of Clinical PeriodontologyWiley · United Kingdom
3.58Q19.91 2.36 up from 201946140%$5,510
3Journal of PeriodontologyWiley · United States
2.98Q18.29 2.43 up from 201950138%$5,000
4Japanese Dental Science ReviewOAElsevier BV · Japan
2.37Q16.56 1.97 up from 201956100%$2,160
5Journal of Dental ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States
2.27Q15.91 0.55 up from 201954755%$4,400
6Journal of Oral MicrobiologyOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
2.25Q16.02 1.51 up from 2019127100%$2,428
7Advances in Dental ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States
2.08Q15.02 0.53 down from 201946—$3,900
8Caries ResearchKarger Publishers · Switzerland
1.87Q15.03 1.48 up from 201919457%—
9BMC Oral HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.82Q14.04 0.88 up from 2019653100%$3,190
10Brazilian Oral ResearchOABrazilian Society of Dental Research · Brazil
1.68Q13.61 0.59 up from 2019359100%—
1.48Q24.31 0.59 up from 201926630%$4,880
12International Dental JournalOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.39Q22.39 0.40 up from 201919094%$2,550
1.35Q23.53 1.01 up from 201921143%$4,230
14Australian Dental JournalWiley · Australia
1.34Q22.57 0.93 up from 201918851%$2,850
15Molecular Oral MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom
1.33Q24.16 1.54 up from 20198345%$4,250
1.31Q23.34 1.06 up from 201922536%$4,650
17The Journal of the American Dental AssociationElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.27Q22.56 0.19 up from 201945722%$3,850
18Oral DiseasesWiley · United Kingdom
1.15Q23.35 0.78 up from 201959340%$4,990
19Current Oral Health ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland
1.12Q22.30 0.77 up from 201912733%$4,090
20GerodontologyWiley · United Kingdom
1.08Q33.06 1.23 up from 201916829%$3,780
1.06Q33.68 0.74 up from 201938225%$4,780
22European Archives of Paediatric DentistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
1.04Q32.34 0.76 up from 201921928%$2,590
1.00Q32.17 1.07 up from 2019432100%$150
24BDJ OpenOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom
1.00Q32.38 1.29 up from 201954100%$3,590
25Archives of Oral BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.98Q32.70 0.34 up from 201981526%$3,760
0.98Q32.61 0.72 up from 2019211—$2,500
27Acta Odontologica ScandinavicaOAInforma · Norway
0.98Q32.06 0.12 down from 2019297100%—
28Journal of Public Health DentistryWiley · United Kingdom
0.96Q32.23 0.32 up from 201914445%$3,570
29JDR Clinical & Translational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States
0.95Q32.27 0.70 up from 201914555%$4,400
0.92Q42.69 0.84 up from 201913629%$3,800
0.83Q41.77 0.69 up from 2019286100%—
32Special Care in DentistryWiley · United States
0.63Q41.58 0.62 up from 201920929%$3,240
33Evidence-Based DentistrySpringer Nature · United Kingdom
0.55Q41.07 0.16 up from 201915447%$3,090
0.29Q40.64 0.28 up from 2019164100%—
0.16Q40.23 0.13 up from 2019104——
36Journal of the California Dental AssociationOACalifornia Dental Association · United States
0.10Q40.22 0.10 up from 201938265%—
37Interventions in Pediatric Dentistry Open Access JournalOALupine Publishers · United States
0.05Q40.11 0.11 up from 201956100%—
38Modern Approaches in Dentistry and Oral Health CareOALupine Publishers · United States
0.05Q40.09 0.01 up from 201968100%—

Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

9 additional Periodontics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2017–2019, 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
38
Window papers (baseline)
18,232 +16.4% from indicator year 2017
Median OJR
1.100 +2.8% from indicator year 2017
Rising journals (2025)
3

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals2426262526272628282731343735373939393738383941383737
Window papers (baseline)3,1303,3503,6174,1254,6635,1735,6736,1936,7877,4878,7249,78810,79211,58112,62713,93314,81915,66516,42317,07118,23220,13922,87024,10724,70924,974
Median OJR0.8540.8510.990.920.971.060.951.0771.171.311.0251.0841.141.211.1291.120.9981.0711.1341.091.1001.181.0681.0951.0340.96

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.