About the Journal

International Journal of Orofacial Research (IJOFR), is a official publication of Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals published by MM Publishers. It is a peer-reviewed online journal with two issues per year published in English language. The journal was first published online in June of 2017 by Wolters Kluwer - Medknow and has been regularly published.

From 2022, IJOFR is published by MM Publishers.

The journal’s full text is available online at the International Journal of Orofacial Research. The journal allows free access (Open Access) to its contents and permits authors to self-archive the final accepted version of the articles on any OAI-compliant institutional / subject-based repository.

Focus and Scope of Journal

IJOFR aims to publish content that includes basic dental science and areas relevant to dentistry. All clinical, diagnostic, surgical pediatric, orthodontic, prosthetic, geriatric, and aesthetic dentistry, understanding of development and pathogenesis of dental pathology, diseases, defects; detection and management of dental pathology/ disease; evidence-based studies on epidemiology on dental disease(s); studies exploring the risk factors for development and progression of dental disease(s); dental education.

Frequency 

The journal publishes 2 issues per year, from January to June and July to December.

Language

The journal's publication language for both articles and abstracts are English.

Abstracting and Indexing

The journal is registered with the following abstracting partners:

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Open Access Policy and Creative Commons Licensing

This is an open-access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License which allows users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, remix or otherwise alter the original material (with proper attribution) or link to the full tests of articles or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking permission from publisher or author, provided that they are not using it for any commercial purpose.

Digital Archiving Policy

IJOFR is committed to the long-term preservation of its content. All articles published by the journal are digitally archived in PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN). In addition, journals encourage authors to archive published versions of their articles on their institutional repositories and as well as other appropriate websites.

Ahead of Print policy

Articles published online under the Ahead of Print model are considered published and can be cited and quoted using the DOI as the reference source.

MM Publishers

Founded in 2022, MM Publishers is a well-respected publisher that fully supports many of the popular open access models through its peer-review management OJS based system.

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