GENERAL INFORMATION
Aims and Scope
Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Research (JOMR) is a peer-reviewed international scientific journal dedicated to spread new knowledge and information of all sciences relevant to oral and maxillofacial associated structures in health and disease. JOMR aims to facilitate the application of new scientific knowledge at the highest possible level to the daily practice of the concerned disciplines and addresses both practicing clinicians and academics.
Rapid publication from acceptance to print provides timely communication of the latest research to the global oral, dental and maxillofacial community.
Academics and clinicians enjoy online access ensuring a very broad international readership and wide dissemination to researchers and clinicians in the field.
Readership
Oral, dental and craniofacial researchers and clinical scientists, dentists, oral and dental policy-makers, dental educators and hard-tissue scientists.
Charges, Processing Fees
To promote the widest readership possible, JOMR is offered as open access journal. Therefore, all the content is freely and permanently available online without any of subscription fees.
Article Processing Charges (APC) to the authors. If an article is accepted for publication, authors will be required to pay an APC (400 €). This is a one-time fee to cover the costs of administering the review process, publishing-related functions such as professional preparation of articles in PDF, as well as other formats required for distribution of published articles in databases.
Publication Frequency
JOMR content is published electronically on a quarterly basis:
1. First issue is published by the end of March;
2. Second by the end of June;
3. Third by the end of September;
4. Fourth by the end of December.
Article Types Accepted for Publication
- Original scientific articles - biological, clinical and biomaterials and bioengineering original research articles;
- Literature reviews - from the systematic to meta-analysis reviews of basic and clinical science related to oral and maxillofacial pathology;
- Clinical case reports - clinical case series analyses for dentists, oral pathologists and maxillofacial surgeons, other specialists of medicine and public health as well as for researchers.
Internet-Based Peer Review Process
The review usually takes 6 weeks. However, this depends on the quality of the submitted work and the response time of the reviewers.
Upon receipt of a new article, Editor-in-Chief and/or Editorial Assistant evaluates the submission quality and decides whether it can be reviewed or additional corrections are required.
If submission meets the requirements to start the review, Editorial Assistant enters the article and correspondent details into the system database.
The Editor-in-Chief and/or the Associate Editor will then at least 2 external reviewers who are authorities in the field and who are deemed to have the relevant experience and expertise to provide a full, confidential and cogent review of the article.
A copy of the title and abstract is made available to them to assist them in deciding whether they have the pertinent experience to review the article. If they accept the assignment to review, they will receive original article and further details. After that they must Log-In to the database, where they will submit to their comments. Reviewers are allocated 6 weeks for evaluation of submitted article. An automatic e-mail Letter of Reminder is sent after 5 weeks by the system database if the review has not been returned.
When the reviews are returned, the Editor-in-Chief will then make a decision based on reviewers' reports and evaluations. Subsequently, author(s) will be promptly notified of the publication decision and/or necessary revisions.
Upon revision, the Editorial Assistant evaluates the revision quality and decides whether it can be sent to the same reviewers who undertook the initial evaluation or must be returned for further corrections.
If the reviewers agree with the author(s) corrections and have no comments, the Editor-in-Chief will then make a final decision. Subsequently, author(s) will be promptly notified of the final decision. The reviewers are also informed and copies of the other reviewers' reports are sent for their information.
Accepted articles will be edited for consistency and clarity prior to their publication. Authors will receive the final version of article before the publication.
Indexing and Abstracting
JOMR is indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index™ (ESCI) by Clarivate™.
Abstracts with links to publications are available at Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
Once the recent JOMR issue is published online, then the articles are prepared for indexing in the databases. First full-text articles are published in PubMed Central (PMC), and then the abstracts are collected and included by PubMed (Medline). Full-text publications are also linked and available online by Europe PubMed Central.