Journal Information

BDJ Open is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal publishing dental and oral health primary research from all disciplines. The journal is owned by the British Dental Association, and published in partnership with Springer Nature. We publish technically sound, scientifically valid primary research from across dental and oral health research.

The Journal's Editor-in-Chief is Dr Stephen Hancocks OBE.

Article Processing Charge

If your article is accepted following our peer review process then an article processing charge (APC) will be payable. The APC is determined at the date of acceptance. More information on the current APCs for BDJ Open can be found here.

Journal Metrics

Article metrics such as number of downloads, citations and online attention are available from each article page, and provide an overview of the attention received by a paper.

2022 citation metrics

  • 2-year Impact Factor*: 3.0
  • Journal Citation Indicator (JCI)*: 1.30
  • Rank by JCI*: 23/156 (Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine)
  • SNIP**: 1.3
  • SJR***: 0.859

​*2022 Journal Citation Reports® (Clarivate Analytics, 2023)

**Source-Normalized Impact per Paper (Scopus, 2022)

***SCImago Journal Rank (Scopus, 2022)

2023 Peer Review Metrics

Average turnaround times for all manuscripts:

  • Submission to first editorial decision = 7 days
  • Submission to acceptance = 69 days
  • Acceptance to publication = 35 days 

2023 Usage Metrics

  • Downloads* = 202,067
  • Altmetric mentions = 156

*COUNTER 5

Abstracted/indexed in:

  • CNKI
  • DOAJ
  • ESCI
  • Google Scholar
  • OCLC
  • PubMed Central
  • SCImago
  • SCOPUS

ISSN
The ISSN (online) for BDJ Open is 2056-807X.