Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Field ranking · 2021
Dentistry journal rankings 2021
179 ranked journals · Field in Health Sciences
Dentistry has 179 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.90, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 1.31. The top three are Periodontology 2000, Dental Oral and Maxillofacial Research, and Journal Of Clinical Periodontology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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)
Up to Health Sciences179 ranked journals
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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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Periodontology 2000Wiley · United Kingdom | 6.34Q1 | 15.10 6.40 up from 2020 | 142 | 60% | $4,430 | ||
2Dental Oral and Maxillofacial ResearchUnited Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 14.33 8.43 up from 2020 | 79 | 95% | — | ||
3Journal Of Clinical PeriodontologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.50Q1 | 8.45 1.46 down from 2020 | 465 | 48% | $5,510 | ||
4Journal of PeriodontologyWiley · United States | 3.25Q1 | 4.98 3.31 down from 2020 | 590 | 38% | $5,000 | ||
5Journal of Dental ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.76Q1 | 9.88 3.97 up from 2020 | 553 | 54% | $4,400 | ||
6Journal of EndodonticsElsevier BV · United States | 2.50Q1 | 5.45 0.54 up from 2020 | 782 | 21% | $4,390 | ||
7Clinical Oral Implants ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 5.20 1.57 down from 2020 | 399 | 42% | $5,170 | ||
8Progress in OrthodonticsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 2.41Q1 | 6.92 2.97 up from 2020 | 135 | 100% | $2,152 | ||
9Japanese Dental Science ReviewOAElsevier BV · Japan | 2.39Q1 | 7.39 0.83 up from 2020 | 60 | 100% | $2,160 | ||
10International Endodontic JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 6.30 0.82 up from 2020 | 466 | 36% | $4,880 | ||
11Dental MaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.37Q1 | 6.01 0.24 up from 2020 | 606 | 47% | $4,560 | ||
12Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related ResearchWiley · Canada | 2.23Q1 | 4.48 0.49 up from 2020 | 352 | 35% | $4,780 | ||
13Advances in Dental ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.22Q1 | 2.29 2.73 down from 2020 | 46 | — | $3,900 | ||
14Journal of DentistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 5.70 0.79 up from 2020 | 540 | 48% | $4,160 | ||
15Journal of Applied Oral ScienceOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil | 2.07Q1 | 5.05 1.42 up from 2020 | 284 | 100% | — | ||
16Journal of Oral MicrobiologyOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 6.89 0.86 up from 2020 | 142 | 100% | $2,428 | ||
17Journal of ProsthodonticsWiley · United States | 1.97Q1 | 4.50 0.96 up from 2020 | 406 | 18% | $4,100 | ||
18Caries ResearchKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.95Q1 | 5.44 0.41 up from 2020 | 161 | 50% | — | ||
19BMC Oral HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 5.22 1.18 up from 2020 | 883 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
20Dental Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 1.88Q1 | 3.55 0.37 down from 2020 | 149 | 5% | $3,000 | ||
21Journal of Prosthodontic ResearchElsevier BV · Japan | 1.88Q1 | 3.99 0.02 down from 2020 | 248 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
22ProsthesisOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.87Q1 | 5.18 1.11 down from 2020 | 40 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
23Brazilian Oral ResearchOABrazilian Society of Dental Research · Brazil | 1.75Q1 | 4.30 0.69 up from 2020 | 389 | 100% | — | ||
24Journal of Esthetic and Restorative DentistryWiley · United States | 1.73Q1 | 4.05 0.13 up from 2020 | 295 | 20% | $4,030 | ||
25Clinical Oral InvestigationsSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.73Q1 | 4.44 0.82 up from 2020 | 1,347 | 42% | $4,790 | ||
26International Journal of Paediatric DentistryWiley · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 5.21 1.88 up from 2020 | 305 | 35% | $4,650 | ||
27OdontologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 1.61Q1 | 3.54 0.07 up from 2020 | 230 | 31% | $4,690 | ||
28The International Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial ImplantsQuintessence Publishing Company · United States | 1.60Q1 | 3.15 0.02 up from 2020 | 367 | 8% | — | ||
29Operative DentistryIndiana University School of Dentistry · United States | 1.59Q1 | 4.18 1.38 up from 2020 | 280 | 21% | — | ||
30The Journal of Advanced ProsthodonticsOASouth Korea | 1.58Q1 | 3.20 0.48 up from 2020 | 153 | 100% | — | ||
31Journal of Prosthetic DentistryElsevier BV · United States | 1.55Q1 | 3.86 0.21 up from 2020 | 1,079 | 23% | $3,900 | ||
32Dentistry JournalOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.55Q1 | 4.04 0.17 up from 2020 | 323 | 100% | $2,413 | ||
33International Journal of Implant DentistryOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.53Q1 | 3.59 0.08 up from 2020 | 167 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
34International Journal of DentistryOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 3.34no change | 292 | 100% | $1,560 | ||
35International Journal of BiomaterialsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 4.76 0.76 up from 2020 | 70 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
36Molecular Oral MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 4.30 0.14 up from 2020 | 87 | 38% | $4,250 | ||
37BDJ OpenOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.44Q1 | 4.58 2.21 up from 2020 | 58 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
38European Journal of DentistryGeorg Thieme Verlag · Germany | 1.40Q1 | 3.71 0.23 up from 2020 | 378 | 100% | — | ||
39Dentomaxillofacial RadiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 3.64 0.62 up from 2020 | 261 | 100% | $3,005 | ||
40Head & Face MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.37Q1 | 3.43 0.29 down from 2020 | 90 | 100% | $2,890 | ||
41The Angle OrthodontistOAE.H Angle Education and Research Foundation · United States | 1.37Q1 | 3.43 1.18 up from 2020 | 341 | 100% | — | ||
42Journal of Periodontal ResearchWiley · Denmark | 1.35Q1 | 3.97 0.34 down from 2020 | 279 | 29% | $4,880 | ||
43The Saudi Dental JournalOAElsevier BV · Saudi Arabia | 1.34Q1 | 3.02 0.62 up from 2020 | 261 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
44European Archives of Paediatric DentistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.32Q1 | 3.38 1.04 up from 2020 | 247 | 45% | $2,590 | ||
45Journal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.31Q1 | 3.68 0.03 down from 2020 | 263 | 97% | $1,800 | ||
46Community Dentistry And Oral EpidemiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 3.21 0.32 down from 2020 | 229 | 43% | $4,230 | ||
47European Journal Of Oral SciencesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 2.51 0.60 down from 2020 | 198 | 46% | $4,220 | ||
48Brazilian Dental JournalOAFundação Odontológica de Ribeirão Preto · Brazil | 1.25Q2 | 2.84 0.32 up from 2020 | 247 | 100% | $104 | ||
49Restorative Dentistry & EndodonticsOAKorean Academy of Conservative Dentistry · South Korea | 1.24Q2 | 2.17 0.21 up from 2020 | 146 | 100% | — | ||
50Journal of Dental SciencesOAElsevier BV · Taiwan | 1.24Q2 | 3.70 1.80 up from 2020 | 352 | 100% | $1,600 |
Subfields of Dentistry, compared.
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
44 additional Dentistry journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 179
- Window papers (baseline)
- 70,264 +24.2% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.90 +15.3% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 15Comparison-group list (15)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.