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Journal rankings · indicator year 2023

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Subfield ranking · 2023

Orthodontics journal rankings 2023

48 ranked journals · Subfield in Dentistry

Orthodontics has 48 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.97, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.45. The top three are Journal of Esthetic and Restorative Dentistry, Dental Materials, and Journal of Dentistry.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 score is computed on.

48
27% 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.

0.97-0.02 vs 2022
This subfieldAll 0.77World 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.

46%
All fields: 38%
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.

$3,095
Median positive listed APC: $3,095 among 26 journals. 22 have no known price. All fields: $3,240.

Subfields of Dentistry (4)

48 ranked journals

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Quartile

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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APC (list price)
Orthodontics ranking, 2023

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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023.

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2.15Q14.52 0.44 up from 202235560%$4,030
2Dental MaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.14Q15.52 0.05 down from 202258826%$4,560
3Journal of DentistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.11Q16.17 0.58 up from 202268545%$4,160
4Journal of ProsthodonticsWiley · United States
2.04Q14.37 0.24 down from 202244161%$4,100
5Biomaterial Investigations in DentistryOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
2.03Q14.35 0.18 down from 202252100%$1,240
2.00Q13.52 0.01 up from 2022126100%—
7Progress in OrthodonticsOASpringer Nature · Germany
1.93Q15.04 0.31 down from 2022149100%$2,152
8Head & Face MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.68Q13.13 0.98 down from 2022128100%$2,890
9The Angle OrthodontistOAE.H Angle Education and Research Foundation · United States
1.62Q13.50 0.04 down from 2022299100%—
10Journal of Applied Oral ScienceOAUniversity of São Paulo · Brazil
1.56Q13.03 0.99 down from 2022206100%—
11Clinical Oral InvestigationsSpringer Nature · Germany
1.55Q14.05 0.03 down from 20221,60548%$4,790
12Journal of Prosthetic DentistryElsevier BV · United States
1.45Q13.54 0.15 up from 20221,29129%$3,900
13Journal of Prosthodontic ResearchElsevier BV · Japan
1.37Q23.35 0.42 up from 2022265100%$3,000
14International Journal of BiomaterialsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
1.25Q23.93 0.46 up from 2022102100%$1,000
1.22Q22.96 0.15 up from 202211333%$3,000
1.20Q22.94 0.06 up from 202224763%$4,030
17Clinical Cosmetic and Investigational DentistryOADove Medical Press · New Zealand
1.19Q22.81 0.16 up from 2022158100%$2,320
1.16Q22.40 0.14 down from 202292728%$4,070
1.13Q23.12 1.05 up from 2022145100%—
20European Journal of DentistryGeorg Thieme Verlag · Germany
1.12Q22.45 1.35 down from 2022511100%—
21The International Journal of ProsthodonticsQuintessence Publishing Company · United States
1.09Q21.92 0.27 down from 202229922%—
22Seminars in OrthodonticsElsevier BV · United States
1.04Q22.73 0.96 up from 20227933%$2,810
23Dental Materials JournalOAJapanese Society for Dental Materials and Devices · Japan
1.01Q22.18 0.50 down from 2022409100%—
24Dental Press Journal of OrthodonticsOADental Press Editora · Brazil
0.98Q21.80 0.01 up from 2022183100%—
25European Journal Of Oral SciencesWiley · United Kingdom
0.97Q32.30 0.09 down from 202220459%$4,220
26Journal of Oral ScienceOANihon University · Japan
0.97Q32.16 0.14 down from 2022260100%—
27Operative DentistryIndiana University School of Dentistry · United States
0.95Q31.79 0.62 down from 202224310%—
28European Journal of OrthodonticsOxford University Press · United Kingdom
0.93Q32.99 0.52 up from 202221365%$4,286
0.84Q31.97 0.14 up from 2022281100%—
30Journal of OrthodonticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
0.83Q31.73 0.35 down from 202216520%$4,150
0.82Q31.68 0.01 up from 202219451%$3,190
32Journal of Dental Research Dental Clinics Dental ProspectsOATabriz University of Medical Sciences · Iran
0.81Q31.75 0.10 up from 2022132100%—
0.81Q30.89 0.77 down from 202255100%—
34International OrthodonticsElsevier BV · France
0.80Q32.63 0.73 up from 202222021%$2,570
35Acta Stomatologica CroaticaOASchool of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb · Croatia
0.78Q31.99 0.36 down from 2022110100%—
36Frontiers in DentistryOAKnowledge E · Iran
0.68Q31.31 0.35 up from 2022139100%$215
37Journal of Orthodontic ScienceOAMedknow · India
0.66Q41.45 0.26 up from 202299100%$400
38Journal of Baghdad College of DentistryOAUniversity of Baghdad · Iraq
0.58Q41.46 1.21 up from 202273100%—
39European Journal of General DentistryThieme Medical Publishers (Germany)
0.41Q41.07 0.30 up from 202291100%—
40Journal of Advanced Oral ResearchSAGE Publishing · India
0.40Q40.81 0.13 down from 202210564%$4,150
41APOS Trends in OrthodonticsOAMedknow · India
0.32Q40.75 0.24 up from 2022122100%—
0.29Q40.61 0.04 up from 2022193100%—
43AJO-DO Clinical CompanionElsevier BV · United States
0.28Q40.63 0.18 up from 202210411%$3,000
44Australasian Orthodontic JournalOAExeley Inc · Australia
0.27Q40.74 0.31 up from 2022106100%—
45Orthodontic WavesElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.23Q40.65 0.10 up from 202252—$3,000
46STOMATOLOGY EDU JOURNALOARomanian Academy · Romania
0.22Q40.25 0.16 down from 2022125——
47Journal of Dental Health Oral Disorders and TherapyOAMedCrave Group · United States
0.11Q40.12 0.17 down from 202273100%—
48Orthodontic UpdateMark Allen Group · United Kingdom
0.04Q40.12 0.05 down from 20229911%—

Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

7 additional Orthodontics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
48
Window papers (baseline)
20,634 +26.4% from indicator year 2020
Median OJR
0.972 +6.6% from indicator year 2020
Rising journals (2025)
7

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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 journals1517171719192123262629323436424750515251504948484848
Window papers (baseline)2,9653,2143,4353,8104,0764,6675,2165,9026,7397,5478,7119,66710,55411,15111,91912,70113,48814,09214,78515,66316,32617,56919,31920,63421,35321,761
Median OJR0.770.580.630.490.6120.680.6080.700.710.8770.9650.9490.9740.930.88640.840.860.8780.900.88610.910.9460.990.9721.010.893

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.