Announcements

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.

On 9 February 2023, Clarivate, a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics, added the Preprint Citation Index to the Web of Science platform, streamlining the research process by allowing researchers to locate and link to preprints alongside other trusted content in the database.

The Preprint Citation Index will act as a bridge to connect cutting-edge preprints with peer-reviewed journal articles published within the Web of Science Core Collection. Alerts can be easily set to monitor new research across several repositories and authors will also be able to include preprints on their Web of Science Research Profile to more accurately display their various research outputs.

As of its launch, the Preprint Citation Index will provide nearly two million preprints from various repositories, including MDPI’s own Preprints.org.

MDPI's Preprints Platform – Preprints.org

To advance Open Science and the fast dissemination of research, MDPI offers researchers a free multidisciplinary preprint platform. Preprints.org accepts submissions from all research areas and offers authors high visibility, permanent archiving, article-level Metrics and immediately citable content by assigning a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to all preprints.

During submission to any MDPI journal, authors have the option to share their research as a preprint. After an initial screening, the manuscript is available online in 48 hours or less. Once online, preprints can be downloaded, shared, commented on, and cited, providing authors maximum visibility.

We invite you to join the ranks of the over 100k researchers using Preprints.org and share your research.

For more information, please visit Preprints.org.

Welcome to the 2023 Oral Health Research Congress in Rhodes from 21 to 23 September 2023, which will be organized by the Continental European Division (CED-IADR) together with the Scandinavian Division (NOF) of the International Association for Dental Research.

We hope you join us on the beautiful island of Rhodes, the largest of all Dodecanese islands in Greece. Rhodes is located in the southern part of the Aegean Sea and has been in existence since the Stone Age. It is exceptionally situated at the crossroads of three continents, combining the sophistication of Europe with the mysteries of the east. Rich in history, its medieval town was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988.

Science and research will be the main elements in our agenda for three days, in our efforts to advance research and increase knowledge to improve oral health.

Therefore, you are strongly encouraged to come to Rhodes to present your latest research! We plan to have a broad scientific program, consisting of state-of-the-art symposia, outstanding keynote lectures, as well as oral and poster presentations by researchers from Europe and beyond, presenting their latest research findings in a wide spectrum of dental disciplines, and workshops organized by the young CED-IADR ambassadors.

During your stay in Rhodes, you will all have plenty of opportunities to network with the members of the CED-IADR and NOF community and share your ideas and opinions on dental research.

All attendees are, as always, kindly invited to the free CED-IADR/NOF welcoming ceremony and reception on Thursday night, to be held in the old City Centre of Rhodes. The Friday get-together will take place in the exquisite Kallithea Springs.

For more information, please visit the following website: https://ced-iadr2023.com/.

See you in September 2023 in Rhodes!

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative—the MDPI Special Issue Mentor Program.

This program will enable early career researchers (who must hold a Ph.D. in a related field) to experience editing a Special Issue in MDPI journals, under the mentorship of our experienced Editorial Board Members or other experienced scientists. The mentor program will provide an excellent opportunity for early career scientists to gain editorial experience, and to cultivate their ability to edit scientific research.

The mentee’s responsibilities include:

• Proposing a Special Issue title and assisting the mentor in preparing a summary (around 200–400 words) and 3–10 keywords describing the background, importance, and goal of the Issue;
• Writing a brief promotion plan for the Special Issue;
• Preparing a list of scholars who may be interested in the Issue and personally e-mailing invitations on behalf of Guest Editors;
• Writing an editorial for the online Special Issue together with the mentor.

The mentor’s responsibilities include:

• Conducting a final check before the Special Issue is published online;
• Performing editorial control of the Special Issue and quality control of the publications, both of which must be carried out in a timely manner;
• Providing suggestions to younger scholars if they have any doubts or concerns regarding submissions;
• Organizing video calls with young scholars and the Editorial Office regularly to discuss problems and improvement suggestions for the Special Issue;
• Making and submitting decisions regarding submissions with the assistance of mentees.

Certificates and awards:
After the Special Issue closes, the Editorial Office will provide official certificates for all the mentors and early career researchers.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your Special Issue proposal to the Editorial Office of a journal you choose, and we will discuss the process (i.e., mentor collaboration, Special Issue topic feasibility analysis, etc.) in further detail. The full list of MDPI journals is as follows: https://www.mdpi.com/about/journals.

In addition to the new Special Issue Mentor Program, we will continue to welcome all Special Issue proposals focusing on hot research topics.

MDPI has just become the first open access (OA) publisher to reach the milestone of one million articles published. That is one million articles freely available to all, to circulate and build upon! We are proud to share this special moment with the global scientific community.

This landmark has been reached thanks to the immeasurable support of more than 600,000 expert reviewers, 66,000 editorial board members and 6700 hard-working colleagues across MDPI’s global offices.

Within more than 25 years of publishing, our journals received 2.1 million manuscripts and generated 4.6 million peer review reports to get to one million papers published.

Reaching the milestone of one million articles published reinforces our mission to remove any existing barriers and to make scientific research accessible to all. Since its inception, MDPI’s goal has been to create reliable processes to make science open. This is a path towards facilitating the dissemination of novel insights in scientific communities.

Regular feedback from authors and reviewers shows that our service is greatly appreciated and needed. At the same time, the feedback helps us identify areas for further improvement.

As it stands, a significant share of published research findings remain closed access. More than half of the content published with the most well-known legacy publishers stays behind a paywall, and that is not including articles published in hybrid OA journals, or made available months or years after publication.

A new policy announced by the US administration in August 2022 requires that, as of January 2026, all US federally funded research be made freely and immediately available after publication. While the new policy does not mandate articles be published under an open access license, it is aligned with the open access movement in removing all barriers to research. Similarly, some of the most advanced research institutions in the world intend to have all funded research articles published in open access by 2025.

MDPI is proud to be the leading agent of the transition to open access.

"Thanks a Million" to all the contributors!

We are currently recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) for MDPI journals indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) in Web of Science. In particular, we are looking for experts who are interested in aiding in the development of our journals and safeguarding the scientific quality of the published findings.

Journals currently listed in the ESCI will receive an Impact Factor in June 2023, according to the changes announced by Web of Science (Clarivate). Therefore, this is an excellent time to become an Editorial Board Member for one of these fast-developing journals.

If you are interested in sharing your expertise in one of the journals listed below, please send us an application using this link.

The Editorial Office of the journal will contact you once the application has been approved.
Editorial Board Members are responsible for academic decisions on manuscripts in their field of expertise, will edit Special Issues, and may be invited to review manuscripts. The initial term lasts for two years, after which it can be renewed, and entails the following:

• Prescreening and making decisions on new submissions related to your research interests;
• Setting up at least one Special Issue during your term on a topic related to your research interests (or supervising Special Issues related to your research field);
• Providing input or feedback regarding journal policies;
• Helping to promote the journal among your peers or at conferences;
• Attending Board meetings to suggest journal development strategies;
• Reviewing manuscripts.

Editorial Board Members are entitled to a full waiver on one publication per year in the journal that they serve and need to be experts in their fields.

The list of ESCI journals can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/about/journals/esci.

Please find the list of ESCI journals, categorized by subject, for which we are recruiting Editorial Board Members below.