News
To all Authors submitting their manuscripts to Dental and Medical Problems
As of January 1, 2024, the journal will be published bimonthly, which means there will be six issues in a year.
Furthermore, starting from January 2024, a new type of articles called “Editorial material” will occur in the journal.
Editorial material will comprise editorials, perspectives, comments, and research highlights. The submissions of all the abovementioned articles will be allowed by invitation only. Unsolicited submissions will not be pursued.
Precise definitions and further details on preparing the editorial material are available at:
https://dmp.umw.edu.pl/en/preparing-manuscript/.
Ministerial evaluation
We are very glad to announce that Dental and Medical Problems has been assigned a score of 200 pts by the Polish Ministry of Education and Science. It is a rise by 130 pts with regard to the previous evaluation, which again proves the high scientific quality of the journal and its continuous development.
Clarivate™ has just unveiled Journal Citation Reports™ 2023
Impact Factor for Dental and Medical Problems!
We are proud to announce that Dental and Medical Problems is the first dentistry-profile scholarly journal in Poland and Eastern Europe in general to receive a Journal Impact Factor (JIF) in the latest 2023 release of the Journal Citation Reports™!
The current JIF for Dent Med Probl has been established at the level of 2.6.
With regard to categories, the current ranking position of Dent Med Probl is:
72/322 (Q1) in the category "Medicine, General & Internal",
and 70/156 (Q2) in the category "Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine".
On this occassion, we would like to express our gratitude to all members of the Editorial Board, as well as to all Editors and Reviewers for their enormous contribution to the development of our journal. It is due to your diligent work and dedication that we could achieve the standard of excellence.
We would also like to thank all Authors who decided to share their studies with the rest of the community through publishing in Dent Med Probl. We do encourage all scientists to submit to our journal manuscripts of high-quality content related to oral health and medicine.
We are pleased to announce the newest bibliometric data for Dental and Medical Problems from SCOPUS for the year 2022:
SCOPUS
- journal’s advancement to Q2 in the category “General Dentistry”
- an increase of CiteScore from 2.0 to 2.9 (a rise by 0.9 points!)
- an increase of SJR from 0.345 to 0.430
- an increase of SNIP from 0.746 to 0.857
The editorial team of Dental and Medical Problems wish you Happy Easter
To all Authors submitting their manuscripts to Dental and Medical Problems
As of January 1, 2023, the journal requires from Authors submitting their manuscripts an additional visual abstract (also known as a graphical abstract) as a complement to the text abstract. It is a concise, pictorial summary of the main findings of the article. For details, please check Information for Authors/Preparing manuscript.
Call for submissions
Dental and Medical Problems invites researchers to submit manuscripts for a new Special Issue:
Different aspects of sleep medicine related to oral health and breathing.
We are waiting for relevant articles until December 31, 2023. Authors submitting their manuscripts for this Special Issue are asked to follow the regular Dental and Medical Problems online manuscript submission procedure.
All information for Authors can be found at:
https://dmp.umw.edu.pl/en/preparing-manuscript/.
The whole editorial team of Dental and Medical Problems wish you
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
New bibliometric data from Journal Citation Reports and Scopus databases for the year 2021
We are pleased to announce the newest bibliometric data for Dental and Medical Problems:
JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS
- an increase of JCI from 0.22 to 0.5
- journal’s advancement to Q2 (position 98/329) in the category “Medicine, General & Internal”
- journal’s advancement to Q3 (position 100/158) in the category “Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine”
SCOPUS
- journal’s advancement to Q2 in the category “General Medicine”
- an increase of CiteScore from 1.2 to 2.0 (a rise by 0.8 points!)
- an increase in the number of cited articles from 45% to 54%
- an increase of SJR from 0.249 to 0.345
- an increase of SNIP from 0.553 to 0.746
New requirements for Authors as of January 1, 2023 – graphical abstracts
Call for submissions
Dental and Medical Problems invites researchers to submit manuscripts for two Special Issues:
COVID-19 as a new global health challenge for dental and general practitioners
and Relationship between cardiovascular diseases and oral health.
We are waiting for relevant articles until December 31, 2022. Authors submitting their manuscripts for these Special Issues are asked to follow the regular Dental and Medical Problems online manuscript submission procedure.
Ministerial evaluation
We are pleased to announce that Dental and Medical Problems has been assigned a score of 70 pts by the Polish Ministry of Education and Science. It is a rise by 50 pts with regard to the previous evaluation, which proves the high scientific quality of the journal.
New ICV for Dental and Medical Problems
We would like to announce that Dental and Medical Problems is indexed in the ICI Journals Master List database for 2020 with the Index Copernicus Value (ICV) of 128.41. In comparison with the previous year, our ICV has increased by nearly 10 points (from 118.76). It has been the biggest rise since 2014 and can be regarded as the journal's success.
Clarivate's "Early Access"
As of October 2021, Dental and Medical Problems, within the Clarivate Early Access indexing initiative (for details, see What’s next for JCR: defining ‘Early Access' - Clarivate), is starting publishing articles as Ahead of Print in a new format. It will be more user-friendly and will allow the earlier publication as well as indexation of all accepted manuscripts, also those not yet assigned to any particular issue.New Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Editor, and a new publishing policy in "Dental and Medical Problems"
New Editor-in-Chief, prof. dr hab. n. med. Mieszko Więckiewicz and Deputy Editor, dr hab. n. med. Helena Martynowicz, are going to change the publishing policy in "Dental and Medical Problems". The Journal will have its medical science scope expanded and will embrace some new thematic sections concerning general medicine, related to oral sciences.
As of October 28, 2020, only original papers and all kinds of reviews (narrative review, systematic review, systematic review and meta-analysis, etc.) are accepted.
“Dental and Medical Problems” indexed under two categories in Web of Science
As of February 10, 2021, the Journal's coverage in Web of Science has been extended. At present, "Dental and Medical Problems" is indexed under two categories: Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine and Medicine General & Internal.
“Dental and Medical Problems” in MEDLINE
“Dental and Medical Problems” is indexed in MEDLINE database, starting from 2018, Vol. 55, No. 1 (January–March). Therefore, the journal is searchable via PubMed and the NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) Entrez system. Abstracts of all articles published in the abovementioned and all subsequent issues are now available in this database, while full articles can be accessed free of charge via our website.
It is worth noting that new journals are not included automatically or immediately into MEDLINE database. Selection is based on the recommendations of the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee (LSTRC), which takes into consideration the scientific scope and quality of a journal.
Original version of the journal
As of January 1, 2017, the online edition is the original version of all published articles.