Many of the published review articles were submitted by the invited authors on the basis of the recommendation of the specialized member societies of JADS, who were internationally well versed in their specialized field of clinical or scientific study. Therefore, it covers all the fields of dentistry and it is referred to as a quite important journal for dental practitioners and researchers due to the convenience that the modern aspects of dental science over every field not only in Japan but also in the world are available from it. Some of the

overseas prominent researchers have also been invited and such CH5424802 nmr plan will be more enhanced for greater diversity of authors. The unsolicited submissions are welcome; however, most of those papers submitted from overseas in the past were unfortunately rejected by the reason that some were substantially lack of comprehensive

or systematic contemplation and some were out of scope such as original paper and case report. JDSR has so far been published biannually and the contents have also been available from online journals. The printed journals have been delivered free to as many as 817 overseas dental schools, libraries and the related organizations. From Vol. 49 in 2013, the new circulations will be incorporated in which the official online journal will be published quarterly and it will be able to be accessed free of charge regardless of the membership in order www.selleckchem.com/products/epz-6438.html to make it more available for the professionals in the world.

Although the printed journal will be published biannually as in the past, we should apologize to the customers for discontinuing the service of delivering it in association with the alteration of the publication medium. It is our long wishes for JDSR to get impact factor since its first publication. The quality of the contents of JDSR has been highly evaluated by virtue of the internationally active and sophisticated authors as well as the well polished editing system involving peer-refereeing by the prominent domestic and overseas reviewers and excellent publishing about technique of Elsevier. The number of download from online JDSR has rapidly increased to be more than 14,000/year in the world. Such circumstances make us convince that it will surely be covered in the “Web of Science” database of Thomson Reuters which gives the source of impact factor and our application for it is under preparation in autumn in 2012. On the occasion of applying for impact factor, we should arouse the attention again to the members not to misinterpret the impact factor as mentioned in the editorial in Vol. 47, No. 1 of JDSR. The impact factor is calculated by the ratio of the total citation index of all the articles versus the number of the articles in the journal during the past 2 years as it may be well known.