Top Dental Journals

Top Dental Journals
The 2007 statistics have come out and according to Journal Citation Reports these are the top journals in the category of Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine.

Impact Factor:
The average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year.
1. Periodontology 2000
2. Journal of Dental Research
3. Journal of Endodontics
4. Dental Materials
5. Journal of Clinical Periodontology

Current Articles:
The number of articles published in the JCR year.
1. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
2. Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontology
3. Journal of Periodontology
4. Journal of Endodontology
5. American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics

Total Cites:
The number of citations to the journal in descending order.
1. Journal of Dental Research
2. Journal of Periodontology
3. Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontology
4. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
5. American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics

Immediacy Index:
The average number of times an article is cited in the year it is published. This indicates how quickly articles in a journal are cited.
1. Periodontology 2000
2. British Dental Journal
3. Journal of Orofacial Pain
4. Journal of Adhesive Dentistry
5. Dental Materials

If you would like to see the rest of the list, check out Journal Citation Reports in the Web of Knowledge database.