Stomatology Edu Journal
quoted journals in other fields. Only in this way have I been able to publish articles and earn the required credits
for promotion. It was an undertaking I had to clearly embark upon, the more so as the oldest specialized journal
in our country, the Romanian Journal of Stomatology, published since1923, is rated only B +. Publishing an article
in a journal with an high IF is difficult. Successfully publishing an article with a group of Italian colleagues after
almost four years determined and motivated me to continue my work!
Due to the readiness manifested by Professor Michae l Glick, DMD, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American
Dental Association, JADA [4], Mr. Michael Springer, Publisher, JADA, Mr. Nawin Gupta, Director of Business
Operations, ADA and Mrs Stefanie K. Jewell-Thomas, Elsevier, due to their exceptional generosity and willingness
to share scientific information, since our first 2017 issue we have been receiving an article with CE Program FAQs
to be accessed by our readers.
Also in 2017, in order to increase the visibility of the online and print publication of the Stomatology Edu
Journal, we asked Crossref to assign a single alphanumeric string, the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) [5]. The DOI
identification is to be retrospectively assigned to all articles published starting with the first issue.
For the Stomatology Edu Journal to be included in the list of quoted publications starting with its 2017 number 3,
all references to articles published online must include DOI and active links from PubMed, Google Scholar and
Scopus. It was, in fact, a broad retrospective integrating process.
The Stomatology Edu Journal, the publication that has been published online and in print since 2014, is
recognized by a number of databases, such as the National Library of Medicine (NLM) [6], Crossref, SHERPA /
RoMEO, Google Scholar, InfoBase Index (IBI Factor 2015: 2,76) and Academia edu. Currently, as a result of the
efforts of our editors, the Stomatology Edu Journal is being evaluated by the Scientific Index Services (SIS) and
the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and this year is subject to admission to Medline, PubMed Central
(PMC) and Emerging Survey Citation Index (ESCI).
In order to meet these new requirements, as of the first 2018 number, the first page of each article has a new
design, while the online version includes an abstract, a pdf, xml, and html format as well as references. It is a very
time-consuming activity, carried out by the newest member of the operative editorial team, the very competent
and energetic Professor Gabriel Octavian Lazăr, as Deputy Editor-in-Chief.
Professor Emeritus, Stephen F. Rosenstiel, from the Ohio State University, Columbus, USA,
Reviewer-in-Chief, together with his team, played a decisive role in the publication by the Stoma
Edu J of its over 95 articles. In 2017 a series of prestigious Academic Editors joined this team.
Until now, after monitoring the visibility of articles published by the Stoma Edu J, we found the following articles
on the Academia.edu site: Salivary and Serum Enzymes as Diagnostic Biomarkers in Patients with Periodontal
Disease by Miricescu D, et al., 2014, 191 views; Silk fibroin and potential uses in regenerative dentistry - a systematic
review by Virlan MJR, et al., 2014, 159 views; Treatment effects of R-appliance in vertically growing patients-case
series by Showkatbakhsh R, et al., 2014, 112 views; Fundamentals of occlusion and masticatory function by Meyer
GB, et al., 91 views; The use of rotation instruments in endodontic treatment of older dental patients by Retsas A.,
et al., 2015, 86 views; An implant supported maxillary fixed prosthesis with a substructure-suprastructure-design
and clinical case by Kempler J, 2014, 84 views; Remineralisation of affected dentine by different bioactive materials
in the stepwise excavation technique by Andrian S, et al., 74 views [7].
The readers of the Stomatology Edu Journal are highly appreciative of the support provided by the prestigious
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