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• http://www.bdj.co.uk
• Editor: Stephen Hancocks
• Volume 20-205: 24 issues per year
• ISSN: 0007-0610
• EISSN: 1476-5373
• Impact factor : 1.018*
• Impact ranking: 39/51 in Dentistry, Oral Surgery and Medicine*
• Date Established: 1880
• Published on behalf of: The British Dental Association

Aims and Scope:

Celebrating more than 125 years of publishing, the BDJ (British Dental Journal) is one of the longest established dental journals in the world. The role of the BDJ is to inform its readers of ideas, opinions, developments and key issues in dentistry - clinical, practical and scientific - stimulating interest, debate and discussion amongst dentists and researchers of all disciplines.

Readership:

All dentists, dental undergraduates, members of the dental team, academics and dental researchers.

The BDJ is divided into the following sections:

• Opinion - Leaders, letters and articles expressing the views and opinions of people that are open to debate and discussion. This section will keep readers aware of what people are thinking in dentistry today and introduce differing views for debate.
• News - General news about the dental industry keeps readers up-to-date on the latest research and diary events.
• Practice - Articles, reports and papers on the latest developments and information relevant for those in dental practice. This section contains the popular clinical guide series, how-to-do-it papers, case reports and general articles about clinical matters, politics and trends.
• Research - Scientific peer-reviewed papers with a focus on clinical research to enable researchers and scientists to communicate their findings to the rest of the global community. Research papers are published in full online only, and advance online publication enables these papers to be made available online before a summary appears in the printed journal.
• Summaries - A bridge between the practice and research sections, providing a summary of the online research papers in the issue. Besides the abstract and 'in brief' box this page includes a comment on each paper by a specialist in the field, the BDJ Journal Editor or Editor-in-Chief and the authors themselves. This section also includes a selection of abstracts from dental journals.
• Education - Any type of paper, article or report that is relevant to the vital subject of dental education, whether it is undergraduate, postgraduate, specialist or lifelong learning.
• Trade News - Updates on new products
• Plus - This section carries a selection of other articles such as reviews of relevant books, CDs and DVDs, obituaries and feature articles.

What makes the BDJ stand apart from other dental journals?

• A Superb Teaching Resource - Comprehensive and accessible guides to clinical practice are easily viewed and accessed in PDF and HTML format. Many papers are lavishly illustrated in full color and can be used in conjunction with current text books for invaluable help in the practical aspects of a course.
• An Indispensable Research Tool - The abstracts and full text of all articles published in the BDJ are available from 1999 onwards. The tables of contents for most issues are available from 1970 and selected abstracts are available from 1988 onwards. An invaluable archive allowing comprehensive searches of the key dental research from nearly four decades.
• Breadth and Diversity - Both in type of paper and variety of topic, the BDJ publishes across the whole spectrum of dentistry ensuring full coverage of the key issues - clinical, practical and scientific.
• Timeliness - Currently publishing 24 issues a year, the BDJ features advance online publication (AOP) for research papers, enabling the latest research to be published online up to two months before a summary appears in print.

Online features and site license access:

• Online archive available back to January 1999.
• A site license provides access to all content published during the supply period. Access is granted to a further rolling four-year archive during the supply period only. Archive content is freely available after five years.
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• Indexed in Medline (PubMed), Current Contents Clinical Medicine and Science Citation Index.

*2007 Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters, 2008)