About Chinese Journal of Dental Research

Chinese Journal of Dental Research

The Chinese Journal of Dental Research is an English-language dental journal that serves as an official journal of the Chinese Stomatological Association, based in Beijing. Its imprint records ISSN 1462-6446, electronic ISSN 1867-5646 and the Chinese publication number CN 10-1194/R, with quarterly publication. The journal's imprint names the Chinese Stomatological Association as sponsor, Peking University School of Stomatology and Quintessence Publishing Co Ltd as cosponsors, and Popular Science Press as publisher in its Chinese imprint, while international journal directories record Quintessence Publishing as the journal's publisher and a publication history beginning in 1998. It carries clinical and research articles on dentistry and oral science from China for an international readership.

An Official Journal of the Chinese Stomatological Association

The Chinese Stomatological Association is China's national professional body for dentistry. An official journal of such an association carries the authority of the profession it represents: it is a place where the association's scientific community publishes peer-reviewed work, and where standards and new findings in Chinese dentistry are presented in a form the wider world can read. The journal's full descriptive title in international indexes makes the relationship explicit, styling it the official journal of the Scientific Section of the Chinese Stomatological Association.

The cosponsorship recorded in the journal's imprint is equally telling. Peking University School of Stomatology is one of China's leading dental schools, and its involvement links the journal to a major centre of dental research and teaching in Beijing. Quintessence, an international publisher specialising in dentistry, brings the distribution and production experience of a house whose entire list is devoted to dental publications. Together, sponsor, university cosponsor and specialist publisher give the journal its distinctive structure.

Bibliographic Identity and Publication History

Journal directories record the Chinese Journal of Dental Research as in operation since 1998, publishing quarterly, with print ISSN 1462-6446 and electronic ISSN 1867-5646. Its SCImago and Scopus-derived coverage records show coverage from 1998 to 2000 and again from 2010 onwards, a pattern that reflects the journal's history as recorded by indexing services rather than a continuous unbroken index run. In 2025, directory summaries credit the journal with publishing twenty-nine articles, a figure consistent with a selective quarterly title.

The quarterly rhythm and modest article count mark the journal's character. This is not a high-volume outlet publishing hundreds of papers a year; it is a curated English-language window, choosing a limited number of Chinese dental research and clinical papers in each issue for presentation to readers worldwide.

Why an English-Language Dental Journal for China?

Most Chinese dental research is published in Chinese, in journals such as the Chinese Journal of Stomatology, and is therefore difficult for non-Chinese-speaking dentists and researchers to use. The Chinese Journal of Dental Research exists to bridge that gap. By publishing in English, it makes Chinese work on oral science available to the international dental community — for citation, for comparison with work elsewhere, and for inclusion in the systematic reviews and bibliographic databases through which modern evidence-based dentistry operates.

That bridging role explains the journal's publishing arrangements. An international dental publisher, an English-language text, internationally recognised ISSN registration and indexing in services such as Scopus all serve the same purpose: placing Chinese dental scholarship where the world's dentists, dental schools and libraries can find it.

Scope: Dentistry and Oral Science

The journal carries clinical and research articles on dentistry and oral science from China. In practice that remit spans the recognised branches of the dental sciences: restorative dentistry and prosthodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthodontics, periodontology, endodontics, oral pathology and oral medicine, implantology, paediatric dentistry, dental materials and preventive and community dentistry, together with the basic oral sciences that underpin clinical work, such as oral biology and the study of oral tissues and disease mechanisms.

A general dental journal of this kind does not compete with single-specialty titles; its value lies in showing the breadth of a national research community's output in one place. A reader of a single issue can move from laboratory work on dental materials to clinical studies of treatment outcomes, gaining a picture of where Chinese dentistry is advancing.

Indexing and Standing

Scopus-derived journal profiles place the Chinese Journal of Dental Research in medicine categories, with a SCImago quartile recorded as Q2 in recent directory summaries for general medicine and a CiteScore of 3.4 in the same summaries. Such metrics should be read for what they are — directory-level indicators that the journal is an established, cited participant in its field — rather than as comparisons with the largest international dental titles, whose scale is very different.

The journal's presence in Scopus is itself significant for its authors. Chinese dental researchers who publish in an English-language, internationally indexed journal gain visibility for their work beyond China's domestic databases, and their institutions gain publications that count in international research assessments.

The Publisher: Quintessence and the Chinese Imprint

The journal's imprint is unusually informative and deserves recording in full. It names the Chinese Stomatological Association as the journal's sponsor, Peking University School of Stomatology and Quintessence Publishing Co Ltd as cosponsors, and Popular Science Press as publisher, alongside the journal's CN number, ISSN and eISSN and its quarterly frequency. International directories, working from the distribution side, record Quintessence Publishing Company as publisher. These are two views of one arrangement: a Chinese association journal produced within China's publishing system and carried internationally by a specialist dental publisher.

Quintessence is known throughout dentistry for its books and journals, so its involvement signals the audience the journal seeks: practising dentists, specialists and dental academics worldwide, not only researchers in China.

Readership

The journal's intended readers follow from its language and publishers. They include dental researchers and clinicians outside China who want access to Chinese studies; Chinese dentists and academics who read and write for an international audience; dental school libraries building collections in oral science; and systematic reviewers searching the literature on a dental question who would otherwise miss Chinese evidence published only in summary form elsewhere.

For the practising clinician, the attraction of a journal like this is clinical research arising from China's very large patient population and its busy dental hospitals, where case volumes in fields such as implantology, orthodontics and oral surgery are substantial and generate studies of a scale that smaller countries cannot easily match.

Distinguishing the Journal from Other Chinese Dental Titles

China publishes several dental journals, and the Chinese Journal of Dental Research must not be confused with them. The Chinese Journal of Stomatology is the Chinese-language flagship of the same professional community. Other English-language titles, such as the International Journal of Oral Science from Sichuan University, are university journals with different sponsors and publishers. This journal's identity rests on its association sponsorship, its Peking University School of Stomatology cosponsorship, its Quintessence connection and its ISSN pair, 1462-6446 and 1867-5646.

Keeping those markers straight matters for citation: articles in this journal are cited under its title as the official journal of the Scientific Section of the Chinese Stomatological Association, and library records worldwide use that form.

Access

Readers reach the journal through its publisher's journal platform and through the indexing services that carry it, including Scopus and the journal's Chinese site associated with the association's dental portal, both of which are given in the journal's own imprint. Institutional subscriptions through dental and medical libraries remain the standard route for the full text of its subscription-era content.

For this directory, the journal is recorded in Beijing, China, with its official-journal status, its sponsors and cosponsors, its quarterly frequency and its ISSN and CN identifiers, so that its profile can be checked against the journal's imprint and the international directory record.