Announcements

With the first issue released in June 2023, five new MDPI journals disseminating multi-disciplinary science are due to launch, which will cover the subjects of medicine & pharmacology, biology and physical sciences.

The newly launched journals will be overseen by professional Editorial Board Members and Editors to ensure an accurate and rapid publication, rigorous peer review and broad visibility.

Please feel free to browse and discover more about the new journals below.

Journal	Founding Editor-in-Chief	Journal topics (selected)
	Prof. Dr. Jun Ma, Peking University, China| Editorial | view inaugural issue	growth and development; diet and nutrients; school health promotion policies and practices; child health and care; adolescent health and wellbeing | view journal scope | submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Bernd Rehm, Griffith University, Australia | Editorial | view inaugural issue	DNA and gene synthesis; synthetic transcription factors; protein engineering; viral engineering; metabolic engineering | view journal scope | submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Varsha Gandhi, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA | Editorial | view inaugural issue	lymphatics; cancers associated with lymphocytes and lymphoblasts; lymphatic tissues; lymphoma; lymphoid leukemia | view journal scope | submit an article
	Dr. Bradley Turner, University of Melbourne, Australia | Editorial | view inaugural issue	multiple sclerosis; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; primary lateral sclerosis; atherosclerosis; systemic sclerosis | view journal scope | submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Clemens Burda, Case Western Reserve University, USA | Editorial | view inaugural issue	Gamma ray, X-ray, and UV–Vis spectroscopies; NIR/mid-infrared/Raman spectroscopy; microwave and THz spectroscopy; high-resolution gas-phase atomic, molecular, and cluster spectroscopy; MS, NMR, and EPR spectroscopy | view journal scope | submit an article

We wish to thank everyone who has supported the development of open access publishing. You are welcome to submit an application to the New Journal Committee (newjournal-committee@mdpi.com) if you would like to create more new journals.

We are pleased to share that the Dentistry Journal (ISSN: 2304-6767) has received its first Impact Factor of 2.6 in the Journal Citation Reports™ (Clarivate) in June 2023.

The Dentistry Journal continues to be indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) within the Web of Science Core Collection. This is the first time that Clarivate has awarded Impact Factors to journals outside of the core flagship indices, SCIE and SSCI, creating greater transparency around the citedness of ESCI-indexed journals.

The 2022 Journal Impact Factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations of publications in a journal in the Web of Science records in 2022 by the number of citable publications published in the journal in 2020 and 2021. For further journal data, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/dentistry/stats.

The journal’s performance is inseparable from the support and dedication of all journal editors, reviewers, authors, and readers. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have contributed to the journal.

The 2022 citation metrics have been released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), and we’re pleased to announce the following results for MDPI journals:

We are thrilled to announce that 90% of our ranked MDPI journals, specifically 86 out of 96 (captured in the table below), are performing above average in Q1 or Q2. This year, Clarivate has expanded its Impact Factor (IF) awards to include journals in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), providing greater transparency for the full set of journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. As a result, 111 of MDPI journals have received their first IF in 2023, with 37 journals surpassing an IF of 3.0. In total, 208 MDPI journals have been honored with an IF.

Clarivate explains that by "expanding the coverage but holding to highly selective standards, the [Impact Factor] is now a reliable indicator of trustworthiness, as well as a measure of scholarly impact, at the journal level."

Please visit our blog post where we discuss the release of the latest citation metrics with our Indexing Manager, Dr. Constanze Schelhorn, to find out what's different this time around and how to make use of different metrics available.

Note: The Journal of Personalized Medicine's Impact Factor was omitted in the original release and will be assigned separately. Please find the data on the journal webpage in due course.

Source: 2022 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports ^TM (Clarivate, 2023)

We are pleased to inform you that the Dentistry Journal (ISSN: 2304-6767) has received an updated CiteScore of 4.0. The 2022 CiteScore™ was released recently, making an assessment of the scientific influence of journals in the 2019 to 2022 period.

Dentistry Journal’s CiteScore ranks 37 among 115 titles (Q2) in the “General Dentistry” category.

For more journal statistics, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/dentistry/stats.

Excellent performance is inseparable from the support and dedication of all journal editors, reviewers, authors, and readers. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have contributed to the journal.

We are pleased to announce a new review project in the Dentistry Journal (ISSN: 2304-6767), aimed at publishing a collection of expert opinions/reviews on various topics in the field of dentistry. We are committed to promoting multidisciplinary research and providing a platform for scholars on which they can showcase their expertise in this important field.

In this project, we plan to collect review papers on hot topics in dentistry, including, but not limited to, the following:

• Oral biology;
• Lasers in dentistry;
• Restorative dentistry;
• Oral hygiene;
• Periodontology;
• Digital dentistry;
• Preventive dentistry;
• Oral epidemiology;
• Endodontology and traumatology;
• Operative dentistry;
• Prosthodontics;
• Dental materials;
• Orthodontics;
• Dental education
• Pediatric dentistry;
• Dental implantology.

Your expertise and experience will provide readers with a comprehensive overview of the latest developments and advances in different areas of dentistry and we encourage you to propose a topic or submit your paper for consideration. If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact us at dentistry@mdpi.com.

Dentistry Journal (ISSN: 2304-6767) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, and open access journal published monthly online by MDPI. Dentistry Journal supports scientific innovations and clinical and experimental research within the whole field of dentistry and its related fields. The journal is indexed within Scopus, ESCI (Web of Science), PubMed, PMC, and other databases. For more details, please see the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/dentistry.

The Dentistry Journal editorial team is pleased to announce this open call for Special Issue proposals, which offers a group of authors the opportunity to work on an interconnected set of papers on an innovative topic. We are soliciting high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a continuous selection process throughout the year.

If you would like to propose a Special Issue topic for this journal, please contact the Dentistry Journal Editorial Office (dentistry@mdpi.com). Our editors will respond to you as soon as possible.

The duties of Guest Editors are as follows:

• Refining the Special Issue’s title and scope, as well as providing a short introduction (100–200 words) and 5–10 keywords to set up the Special Issue’s website;
• Inviting contributors with the assistance of the in-house editor to achieve a publication target (e.g., 10 papers);
• Supervising the peer review process of the Special Issue, conducting a pre-review check, making final decisions based on at least two review reports that we have collected, etc.

The benefits of acting as a Guest Editor are as follows:

• You will be offered an opportunity to publish one of your papers free of charge in an open access format, in addition to having the chance to provide the waivers to the papers that you invited for your Special Issue;
• A printed book of the Special Issue can be sent to you if more than 10 papers are published by the end of the Special Issue. See more information at https://www.mdpi.com/books;
• It is an ideal venue for networking and communicating with scholars in the research community, as well as a chance to mark you as influential within your discipline. The relationships you develop will last beyond the publication of your Special Issue, establishing a network for future collaboration.

The Editorial Office will set up the Special Issue’s website, arrange the promotional materials, assist with the invitations for paper contributions, and take care of the administrative tasks associated with peer review (including inviting reviewers, collating reports, contacting authors, and arranging professional production before publication).

Please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office (dentistry@mdpi.com) for further details and clarification.

We look forward to receiving your proposals.

Dentistry Journal Editorial Office

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Dentistry Journal 2023 Best Paper Award, which is sponsored by MDPI and Dentistry Journal (ISSN: 2304-6767). Following review by the Evaluation Committee, the best papers were selected. The recipients are as follows:

Review:
“Is There an Association between the Gingival Phenotype and the Width of Keratinized Gingiva? A Systematic Review”
by Elpiniki Vlachodimou, Ioannis Fragkioudakis and Ioannis Vouros
Dent. J. 2021, 9(3), 34; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9030034
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/3/34

Article:
“Improper Light Curing of Bulkfill Composite Drives Surface Changes and Increases S. mutans Biofilm Growth as a Pathway for Higher Risk of Recurrent Caries around Restorations”
by Haifa Maktabi, Maria Salem Ibrahim, Abdulrahman A. Balhaddad, Qoot Alkhubaizi, Isadora Martini Garcia, Fabrício Mezzomo Collares, Howard Strassler, Ana Paula P. Fugolin, Carmem S. Pfeifer and Mary Anne S. Melo
Dent. J. 2021, 9(8), 83; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9080083
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/8/83

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Dentistry Journal 2023 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for their continued support of Dentistry Journal.

For more information about the awards presented by Dentistry Journal, please visit the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/dentistry/awards.

As a leading open access publisher, MDPI provides scholars with a high-quality and rich academic exchange platform by continuously expanding into new and exciting research areas.

In December 2022, MDPI launched five new journals, covering multiple subjects such as life sciences, biology, medicine and pharmacology, social sciences and humanities. These new journals are being edited by established scholars across the world.

If you are interested in creating more open access journals with us to publish cutting-edge research, please send your journal proposal application to newjournal-committee@mdpi.com.

MDPI is pleased to announce that we now display the co-authors’ email addresses in addition to the corresponding author’s email address on the webpage of published papers, protected by Captcha. For more information about this change, please visit the journal’s instructions for authors page. 

We believe this change will facilitate academic discussions and advance our cause of open science and research. The corresponding authors are responsible for communicating with their co-authors and indicating in our system (https://susy.mdpi.com/) if co-authors would prefer for their email addresses not to be displayed.