The ''British Dental Journal'' is a bimonthly
peer-reviewed medical journal published by
Nature Research
Nature Portfolio (formerly known as Nature Publishing Group and Nature Research) is a division of the international scientific publishing company Springer Nature that publishes academic journals, magazines, online databases, and services in scie ...
on behalf of the
British Dental Association
The British Dental Association (BDA) is a registered trade union for dentists in the United Kingdom.
Its stated mission is to "promote the interests of members, advance the science, arts and ethics of dentistry and improve the nation's oral he ...
, of which it is an official journal. It was established in 1872 as the ''Monthly Review of Dental Surgery'' and renamed ''Journal of the British Dental Association'' in 1881, before obtaining its current title in 1904. It absorbed the ''Mouth Mirror and Dental Gazette'' (1950) and later the ''Dental Magazine'' (1970). The journal is a member of the
Committee on Publication Ethics
The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) is a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is to define best practice in the ethics of scholarly publishing and to assist editors and publishers to achieve this.
Mission
COPE educates and su ...
. According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
''Journal Citation Reports'' (''JCR'') is an annual publicationby Clarivate Analytics (previously the intellectual property of Thomson Reuters). It has been integrated with the Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of Science-Core Collec ...
'', the journal had a 2020
impact factor
The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as ...
of 1.626.
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Dentistry journals
English-language journals
Nature Research academic journals
Bimonthly journals
Publications established in 1872
Hybrid open access journals
Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies of the United Kingdom
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