Social Icons

Pages

Sunday 3 January 2010

Scientific journals focusing on dental materials

Two journals in the Science Citation Index (SCI) database focus exclusively on dental materials: (1) Dental Materials and (2) Dental Materials Journal.

Dental Materials is published monthly by the Academy of Dental Materials and is currently ranked 4/55 in the Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine discipline and 5/19 in the Materials Science, Biomaterials discipline. Its impact factor for 2008 is 2.941. It is available through ScienceDirect but requires personal or institutional subscription for full text access. Abstracts can be accessed for free. January 2010 issue of Dental Materials is a free sample and full texts can be downloaded as PDF files. This issue is available HERE.


Dental Materials Journal is published bi-monthly by the Japanese Society for Dental Materials and Devices and is currently ranked 51/55 in the Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine discipline and 15/19 in the Materials Science & Biomaterials discipline. Its impact factor for 2008 is 0.713. Dental Materials Journal is available through FreeMedical journals or at publisher's website HERE. All issues are free and full texts can be downloaded as PDF files.

Though I access full texts in most dental journals through my University online library, occasionally there are articles which cannot be obtained this way. Another way of obtaining an article in its entirety is to send a reprint request to the corresponding author. Fortunately, there is an email address attached to most abstracts on PubMed/MEDLINE. I have been able to obtain almost all articles from the authors whom I sent reprint requests. The only problem may arise when the provided email address becomes inactive. This often happens when an author changes institutions and institutional email addresses. This is why I, for example, always provide my gmail address for correspondence when submitting an article for publication.

2 comments:

Biomaterials said...

After reading this i came to know that how bimaterials plays important role in dentitry.

Unknown said...

Hi,

I really like your post. And good information.

Dental Materials