Operative Dentistry

Operative Dentistry is the journal of Operative Dentistry, Inc., a publisher owned by three academies devoted to restorative dentistry, and it has appeared under that name since 1976.《牙体修复学》是 Operative Dentistry 公司的刊物，这家出版方归三家专注修复牙科的学会所有，刊名从 1976 年用到今天。

Its 2025 impact factor is 2.3 and the five-year figure 2.7.2025 年影响因子 2.3，五年影响因子 2.7。

Clarivate places it 67th of 165 in dentistry, oral surgery and medicine, which is Q2.科睿唯安把它排在牙科，口腔外科与医学 165 种刊的第 67，属 Q2。

The 2026 volume is the 51st, and the journal publishes six issues a year.2026 年是第 51 卷，刊物一年出六期。

Authors pay 50 dollars at submission, a nonrefundable contribution to handling costs.作者投稿时付 50 美元，这笔钱不退，用来分担处理成本。

Scope

• Clinical and laboratory research is the main track, and invited papers sit alongside it.临床与实验室研究是主线，特邀论文与之并行。

• Each research paper has to carry a title, a running title, a clinical relevance statement and a concise summary.每篇研究论文要有题名，页眉短题名，临床相关性声明与一段简要概述。

• The body follows introduction, methods and materials, results, discussion, conclusion and references, in that order.正文按引言，材料与方法，结果，讨论，结论，参考文献的次序排。

• Clinical technique and case study papers are built differently, with purpose, technique description, materials, potential problems and a summary of advantages and disadvantages.临床技术与病例研究另有骨架，写目的，技术描述，所用材料，可能出现的问题，以及利弊小结。

• Literature and book reviews must reach conclusions from the literature, and the guide says a review without them is only an exercise and will not be published.文献与图书综述必须从文献里得出结论，须知说没有结论的综述只是练习，不予发表。

• Editorials can take any structure the author wants, and they are printed as opinion rather than as peer reviewed research.社论的结构由作者自定，按评论文章刊出，不走研究论文的评审。

• References are numbered with superscripts in the order they appear and listed numerically at the end.参考文献按出现次序编号，正文用上标，文末按数字排列。

• The list gives every author rather than an et al, uses full journal names without abbreviation and closes DOIs as permanent links.著录要求列出全部作者而不写等人，刊名用全称不用缩写，带 DOI 的条目把 DOI 作为永久链接附在末尾。

• Teeth are numbered in the Universal system, and the International system is accepted as long as it is used consistently.牙位用通用编号法，国际编号法也可以用，前提是全文一致。

• Any use of human or animal subjects must be covered by evidence of appropriate approval, and clinical trials must be registered.凡使用人体或动物材料，都要有相应批准的证明，临床试验必须注册。

• Manuscripts pass a plagiarism check, and the publisher follows the Vancouver guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.稿件要过查重，出版方按国际医学期刊编辑委员会的温哥华规范办事。

• The aim is two months from submission to acceptance and six months from acceptance to print.目标是投稿到录用两个月，录用到付印六个月。

• Papers may also appear online only, paginated with an e prefix and carrying a citable DOI, and authors accept that possibility when they submit.文章也可能只在线上发表，页码带 e 前缀，配可引用的 DOI，作者投稿即视为接受这一点。

• The corresponding author has to keep contact details current, and a manuscript can be treated as abandoned after seven days without a reply.通讯作者要及时更新联系方式，七天没有回音，稿件可能被当作放弃处理。

• Reviewers receive three continuing education units for each manuscript they report on, whatever the number of revisions, and the publisher is an authorised provider under the American Dental Association scheme.评审人每评一篇拿到三个继续教育学分，不论改了几稿，出版方是美国牙科协会该项计划的授权提供者。

• Authors themselves get no continuing education credit, which the publisher explains as a limit of the accreditation programme.作者本人没有继续教育学分，出版方把这一点解释为认证计划本身的限制。

History

• Volume 1, number 1 appeared in the winter of 1976, which is also where the National Library's MEDLINE coverage begins.第 1 卷第 1 期于 1976 年冬季问世，国家医学图书馆的 MEDLINE 收录也从这里起算。

• The journal took over from the Journal of the American Academy of Gold Foil Operators, which ran for eighteen volumes between 1958 and 1975.刊物接替了《美国金箔操作学会杂志》，那份刊从 1958 年到 1975 年出了十八卷。

• Three academies stand behind the publisher, the American Academy of Gold Foil Operators, the Academy of Operative Dentistry and the Academy of R. V. Tucker Study Clubs.出版方背后有三家学会，美国金箔操作学会，牙体修复学会，以及 R. V. Tucker 学习会。

• The gold foil academy keeps a direct link to the title's origins, since it is the body whose journal this publication replaced.金箔操作学会与刊物的来历直接相连，被接替的那份刊物正是它的会刊。

• Volume and year have kept step since the rename, which puts volume 45 at 2020 and volume 51 at 2026, so the arithmetic is year minus 1975.更名后卷号与年份同步，第 45 卷是 2020 年，第 51 卷是 2026 年，算法为年份减 1975。

• Six issues a year has been the rhythm, and the published record lists bimonthly frequency.一年六期是它的节奏，著录里把频率写作双月刊。

• The National Library gives the imprint as Seattle, at the University of Washington School of Dentistry.国家医学图书馆把出版地记作西雅图，挂在华盛顿大学牙学院名下。

• The Index to Dental Literature carried the title from 1976 to 1999, when that index was wound into MEDLINE.《牙科文献索引》从 1976 年收录到 1999 年，此后并进 MEDLINE。

• Crossref holds 2,476 DOIs under the title, of which 2,252 are backfile records and 224 come from current content.Crossref 名下这个刊名有 2476 个 DOI，其中 2252 个来自回溯库，224 个来自现刊内容。

• The journal is hosted on the Meridian platform run by Allen Press, while jopdent.org serves as the home page.刊物托管在 Allen Press 运营的 Meridian 平台上，jopdent.org 是它的门面页。

• Impact factors over five reported years read 2.44 in 2021, 2.937 in 2022, 1.4 in 2023, 2.2 in 2024 and 2.3 in 2025.五个已公布年度的影响因子为 2021 年 2.44，2022 年 2.937，2023 年 1.4，2024 年 2.2，2025 年 2.3。

• The 2025 volume carries 56 articles and 4,615 citations, and the cited half-life is 9.6 years.2025 年那一卷有 56 篇文章，总被引 4615 次，引用半衰期 9.6 年。

• Gold open access is nil, so the title runs on subscriptions and on the submission fee rather than on author charges.金色开放获取为零，刊物靠订阅与投稿费运转，而不是靠作者付费。

Editors

• Kim Diefenderfer holds the editor-in-chief post, having served as an associate editor from 2015 to 2024.主编 Kim Diefenderfer 在 2015 到 2024 年间先做过副编辑。

• He took his dental degree at Pittsburgh and two master's degrees at Iowa, then taught at Indiana University until 2023.他在匹兹堡取得牙科博士学位，在艾奥瓦取得两个硕士学位，此后在印第安纳大学任教到 2023 年。

• Before that he spent thirty years in the United States Navy Dental Corps and retired as a captain.在那之前他在美国海军牙科队服役三十年，以海军上校退役。

• He sat on the American Board of Operative Dentistry for twenty-four years as an executive councilor, eighteen as treasurer and fifteen as chair of the examination committee.他在美国牙体修复学委员会做了二十四年执行委员，十八年财务主管，十五年考试委员会主席。

• Matthew Rouse is managing editor, with a dental degree from Maryland in 2011 and a master's from Indiana, and he is a diplomate of the same board.执行编辑 Matthew Rouse 2011 年在马里兰取得牙科博士学位，在印第安纳取得硕士学位，也是该委员会的认证医师。

• Timothy Carlson is immediate past managing editor after more than twenty-six years in the chair.前任执行编辑 Timothy Carlson 在这个位子上坐了二十六年多。

• Carlson graduated from Indiana in 1978, worked in Haiti, returned to teach there and retired as an emeritus professor in 2018.Carlson 1978 年毕业于印第安纳，去海地工作过，回校任教，2018 年以荣休教授身份退下。

• Camila Sabatini at the University at Buffalo has been an associate editor since 2017, working on bioactive restorative materials and pulp regeneration.布法罗大学的 Camila Sabatini 自 2017 年起任副编辑，研究方向是生物活性修复材料与牙髓再生。

• Ricardo Walter at High Point University took his dental degree in Brazil and his master's at North Carolina, and he co-edits Sturdevant's textbook.高点大学的 Ricardo Walter 在巴西取得牙科博士学位，在北卡罗来纳取得硕士学位，并与人合编 Sturdevant 的教科书。

• Bert Vasconcellos at North Carolina holds the Sturdevant professorship and directs the operative dentistry and biomaterials programmes there.北卡罗来纳的 Bert Vasconcellos 持有 Sturdevant 讲席，主管该校的牙体修复与生物材料项目。

• He took his doctorate at São Paulo in 2001 and finished a postdoctoral fellowship at North Carolina in 2016 before joining the faculty two years later.他 2001 年在圣保罗取得博士学位，2016 年在北卡罗来纳完成博士后，两年后转入教职。

• Reviewers are named publicly each year in a recognition list, and joining the reviewer board is a separate application.评审人每年在鸣谢名单上公开署名，加入评审委员会另有一套申请手续。