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Operative Dentistry is a refereed, international journal published bi-monthly and distributed to subscribers in over 50 countries. In 2005, we printed 148 articles (790 pages) in the categories of Clinical Research, Laboratory Research, Clinical Techniques/Case Presentations and Invited Papers, as well as Editorials and Abstracts. One of the strong points of our journal is that our current publication time for accepted manuscripts is one year or less from the date of submission. Clinical Techniques/Case Presentations have a very quick turn around time, which allows for very rapid publication of clinical based concepts. We also provide color for those papers that would benefit from its use. The journal does not accept any advertising but you will find postings for faculty positions. Additionally, the journal also does not rent, sell or otherwise allow its subscriber list to be used by any other entity.

We have an Editorial Board of over 150 reviewers from private practice, academics, research, the military and organized dentistry, who provide critical reviews and suggestions for improvement of all submitted manuscripts. Their efforts maintain the outstanding quality of our publication and our rejection rate is roughly 50+% which attests to the great sense of responsibility they maintain for our readership.

Operative Dentistry is the premier journal for our discipline and last year we received 280 manuscript submissions from internationally recognized researchers from the U.S. and more than 20 other countries. The Institute for Scientific Information, which evaluates journals from over 3,000 publishers in 60 countries, continues to rank our publication very highly in the category "Dentistry/Oral Surgery & Medicine". Of the 40+ journals in that category, we have ranked consistently in the upper half and have been as high as 5th. We can also take pride in the accuracy of the journal. Every reference in each article is compared with Advanced Medline listings to ensure that author, title, date of publication, journal volume and issue and page numbers are correct. We also ensure that any citation in the text of an article is listed in the bibliography and vice versa.

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