Science and impact: the challenge faced by Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics

Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics: One year later, and more growth

“…PubMed Central allows direct and free access to articles published from 2014, through the link www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/2644/. Together, these achievements made possible a leap from 70 citations in 2013 - before PubMed indexation - to 136 in 2015 2 and 232 in 2016, an average increase of 77% a year for the past 3 years. These figures, according to the SCImago database, indicate that currently DPJO is one of the 5 orthodontic journals with the highest number of citation/3 years worldwide.…”

“…It is a dream come true for many, but also the offspring of detailed planning, as reported in a previously published editorial. 2 As well as being among the 5 journals with the highest number of citations in world orthodontics, the SJR ranking of the SCImago database - which weighs the average number of citations received in 2016 by the number of articles published in the three previous years (2013, 2014 and 2015) - places the DPJO as the 2nd Brazilian dental journal and the 37th of all Brazilian science, among the 344 Brazilian journals indexed to the database. Three years ago, we were the 4th Brazilian dental journal and occupied the 173rd position among Brazilian journals.…”

A new QUALIS for the Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics

“…DPJO, indexed by Scopus on SCImago base, had a cites per doc of 0.44, a threefold increase in comparison with the previous year 2 . Its impact on QUALIS-CAPES classification system was DPJO being given a better stratum.…”

“…DPJO, indexed by Scopus on SCImago base, had a cites per doc of 0.44, a threefold increase in comparison with the previous year. 2 Its impact on QUALIS-CAPES classification system was DPJO being given a better stratum. When a journal reaches a higher stratum in QUALIS-CAPES, Brazilian researchers start to prioritize it for submission of their studies.…”