Journal Information

Aims and Scope

The British Dental Journal (BDJ) is an international, peer-reviewed journal for the dental community, published by Springer Nature on behalf of the British Dental Association. We aim to inform our readers of ideas, opinions, developments and key issues in dentistry - clinical, practical and scientific - to spark interest, debate and discussion amongst dentists of all disciplines.

Check out the types of articles we publish here and detailed formatting specifications 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.

Citation Impact

  • Journal Impact Factor: 2.3 (2024)
  • 5-year Journal Impact Factor: 2.2 (2024)
  • Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.049 (2024)
  • SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.549 (2024)

Speed 2024

  • Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 8
  • Submission to acceptance (median days): 17

Usage 2024

  • Downloads: 7,092,049
  • Altmetric mentions: 2,398

More about our metrics

Abstracted/indexed in:

  • CNKI
  • Dimensions
  • Google Scholar
  • Journal Citation Reports
  • Medline
  • OCLC
  • Science Citation Index
  • SCIE
  • SCImago
  • SCOPUS

ISSN
The ISSN for the British Dental Journal is 0007-0610 (print) | 1476-5373 (online).