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

New guidelines for systematic reviews and farewell to interviews

“…In 2017, the Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics reached its peak in citation growth and this can be due to three reasons: (1) there was an adjustment in publication flow, reducing the publication time, and the number of articles in each volume was decreased from 137 (in 2013) to 78 (in 2016); (2) the DPJO was indexed in PubMed, which automatically made it visible to researchers all over the world; and (3) because of this, there was naturally an increase in the number of citations 1 .…”

Changes to transform

“…In the last years, the bibliometric indexes for the DPJO have grown exponentially, 1 fruit of the work of the editorial board, as well as of the organization in the publication schedule. To speed up this process, one of the most recent changes was the creation of an On-line Article session: in the printed version of the DPJO (in Portuguese only) we include the abstract of two articles, while the full text is found in the digital version.…”

Thank you very much!

“…For the past 6 years, I have been editor-in-chief of this journal, and this will be my last text in this position. Editorials are free texts, and after 33 of them focused on discussing scientific methodologies, explaining the need for changes 1 - 3 and promoting the growth of this journal 4 and of Brazilian Orthodontics, 5 I ask our readers to let me write a personal text. Gratitude is a reliable and precious asset.…”