Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics: One year later, and more growth

In last June SCImago launched the 2017 cites per doc of the journals that make up its bibliographic database. As is the case with the impact factor, this bibliometric index is calculated each year and is based on the average number of citations of articles published in a given periodical. Although this bibliometric methodology has drawn criticism it is believed that the more often a recently published article is cited, the greater its impact within the scientific context. And despite the tremendous growth it has experienced in recent years orthodontics is still not among the specialties with the greatest impact in dentistry. However, in 2016, thanks to a rise in the number of citations from some periodicals, among which is the Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics (DPJO), we rank amongst the fastest growing specialties in the dental field. DPJO, indexed to Scopus’s SCImago database, received its first cites per doc in 2009, when it was still only published in Portuguese. As of 2010, DPJO launched its English version.1 In June 2016, we received citation data from 2015, when we achieved an index of 0.44 — a 130% increase over the previous year. This significant growth is ratified by the data released in 2017, according to which we achieved a 2-year cites per doc of 0.72, denoting an increase of 64% over 2016 (Fig. 1), and nearly 7 times for the last triennium.