Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Periodontics journal rankings 2021
39 ranked journals · Subfield in Dentistry
Periodontics has 39 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2020 to 1.18, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.75. The top three are Periodontology 2000, Journal Of Clinical Periodontology, and Journal of 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 of Dentistry (4)
39 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 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 | ||
2Journal Of Clinical PeriodontologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.50Q1 | 8.45 1.46 down from 2020 | 465 | 48% | $5,510 | ||
3Journal of PeriodontologyWiley · United States | 3.25Q1 | 4.98 3.31 down from 2020 | 590 | 38% | $5,000 | ||
4Journal of Dental ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.76Q1 | 9.88 3.97 up from 2020 | 553 | 54% | $4,400 | ||
5Japanese Dental Science ReviewOAElsevier BV · Japan | 2.39Q1 | 7.39 0.83 up from 2020 | 60 | 100% | $2,160 | ||
6Advances in Dental ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.22Q1 | 2.29 2.73 down from 2020 | 46 | — | $3,900 | ||
7Journal of Oral MicrobiologyOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 6.89 0.86 up from 2020 | 142 | 100% | $2,428 | ||
8Caries ResearchKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.95Q1 | 5.44 0.41 up from 2020 | 161 | 50% | — | ||
9BMC Oral HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 5.22 1.18 up from 2020 | 883 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
10Brazilian Oral ResearchOABrazilian Society of Dental Research · Brazil | 1.75Q1 | 4.30 0.69 up from 2020 | 389 | 100% | — | ||
11International Journal of Paediatric DentistryWiley · United Kingdom | 1.65Q2 | 5.21 1.88 up from 2020 | 305 | 35% | $4,650 | ||
12Molecular Oral MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.46Q2 | 4.30 0.14 up from 2020 | 87 | 38% | $4,250 | ||
13BDJ OpenOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.44Q2 | 4.58 2.21 up from 2020 | 58 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
14Journal of Periodontal ResearchWiley · Denmark | 1.35Q2 | 3.97 0.34 down from 2020 | 279 | 29% | $4,880 | ||
15European Archives of Paediatric DentistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.32Q2 | 3.38 1.04 up from 2020 | 247 | 45% | $2,590 | ||
16Community Dentistry And Oral EpidemiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 3.21 0.32 down from 2020 | 229 | 43% | $4,230 | ||
17International Dental JournalOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.24Q2 | 3.54 1.15 up from 2020 | 213 | 100% | $2,550 | ||
18Oral DiseasesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 4.47 1.12 up from 2020 | 925 | 30% | $4,990 | ||
19JDR Clinical & Translational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.18Q2 | 3.46 1.19 up from 2020 | 165 | 65% | $4,400 | ||
20The Journal of the American Dental AssociationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.18Q2 | 2.68 0.12 up from 2020 | 479 | 35% | $3,850 | ||
21Journal of Oral Pathology and MedicineWiley · United Kingdom | 1.18Q3 | 4.13 0.45 up from 2020 | 416 | 29% | $4,780 | ||
22GerodontologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.17Q3 | 3.29 0.23 up from 2020 | 172 | 30% | $3,780 | ||
23Australian Dental JournalWiley · Australia | 1.15Q3 | 2.85 0.28 up from 2020 | 176 | 59% | $2,850 | ||
24Journal of Investigative and Clinical DentistryWiley · Australia | 1.07Q3 | 2.83 0.23 up from 2020 | 160 | — | $2,500 | ||
25Acta Odontologica ScandinavicaOAInforma · Norway | 1.06Q3 | 2.77 0.71 up from 2020 | 276 | 100% | — | ||
26Journal of Public Health DentistryWiley · United Kingdom | 1.03Q3 | 2.47 0.24 up from 2020 | 161 | 31% | $3,570 | ||
27Archives of Oral BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.01Q3 | 3.05 0.34 up from 2020 | 758 | 28% | $3,760 | ||
28Current Oral Health ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.90Q3 | 1.79 0.51 down from 2020 | 125 | 43% | $4,090 | ||
29Indian Journal of Dental ResearchOAMedknow · India | 0.88Q3 | 1.62 0.55 down from 2020 | 486 | 100% | $150 | ||
30International Journal of Dental HygieneWiley · United Kingdom | 0.88Q3 | 2.79 0.10 up from 2020 | 136 | 30% | $3,800 | ||
31Special Care in DentistryWiley · United States | 0.84Q4 | 2.59 1.01 up from 2020 | 271 | 21% | $3,240 | ||
32Journal of Indian Society of PeriodontologyOAMedknow · India | 0.82Q4 | 1.82 0.04 up from 2020 | 282 | 100% | — | ||
33Evidence-Based DentistrySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 0.61Q4 | 2.04 0.97 up from 2020 | 162 | 29% | $3,090 | ||
34Pesquisa Brasileira em Odontopediatria e Clínica IntegradaOASciELO · Brazil | 0.57Q4 | 1.49 0.99 up from 2020 | 186 | 100% | $130 | ||
35Revista clínica de periodoncia implantología y rehabilitación oralOASciELO · Chile | 0.31Q4 | 0.51 0.28 up from 2020 | 74 | — | — | ||
36Journal of Indian Academy of Oral Medicine and RadiologyOAMedknow · India | 0.25Q4 | 0.50 0.14 down from 2020 | 161 | 100% | — | ||
37Journal of the California Dental AssociationOACalifornia Dental Association · United States | 0.09Q4 | 0.12 0.10 down from 2020 | 383 | 64% | — | ||
38Modern Approaches in Dentistry and Oral Health CareOALupine Publishers · United States | 0.08Q4 | 0.07 0.02 down from 2020 | 77 | 100% | — | ||
39Interventions in Pediatric Dentistry Open Access JournalOALupine Publishers · United States | 0.07Q4 | 0.08 0.03 down from 2020 | 90 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Dentistry, with Periodontics highlighted.
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.
8 additional Periodontics 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
- 39
- Window papers (baseline)
- 20,139 +22.6% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 1.18 +3.9% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 24 | 26 | 26 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 27 | 31 | 34 | 37 | 35 | 37 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 37 | 38 | 38 | 39 | 41 | 38 | 37 | 37 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 3,130 | 3,350 | 3,617 | 4,125 | 4,663 | 5,173 | 5,673 | 6,193 | 6,787 | 7,487 | 8,724 | 9,788 | 10,792 | 11,581 | 12,627 | 13,933 | 14,819 | 15,665 | 16,423 | 17,071 | 18,232 | 20,139 | 22,870 | 24,107 | 24,709 | 24,974 | |
| Median OJR | 0.854 | 0.851 | 0.99 | 0.92 | 0.97 | 1.06 | 0.95 | 1.077 | 1.17 | 1.31 | 1.025 | 1.084 | 1.14 | 1.21 | 1.129 | 1.12 | 0.998 | 1.071 | 1.134 | 1.09 | 1.100 | 1.18 | 1.068 | 1.095 | 1.034 | 0.96 |
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.