Journal profile · Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine
Oral Diseases
ISSN 1354-523X · eISSN 1601-0825 · Wiley-Blackwell · DENMARK · Bimonthly · Founded 1995
Oral Diseases: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.08; hybrid open access; APC about USD 4,990; median 102 days to acceptance (114 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: fairly easy; 368 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Oral Diseases is published by Wiley-Blackwell and is in Zone 3 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Oral microbiology and periodontitis research, Oral Health Pathology and Treatment and Salivary Gland Disorders and Functions, together about 38.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Periodontics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Oral Diseases is a multidisciplinary and international journal with a focus on head and neck disorders, edited by leaders in the field, Professor Giovanni Lodi (Editor-in-Chief, Milan, Italy), Professor Stefano Petti (Deputy Editor, Rome, Italy) and Associate Professor Gulshan Sunavala-Dossabhoy (Deputy Editor, Shreveport, LA, USA). The journal is pre-eminent in oral medicine. Oral Diseases specifically strives to link often-isolated areas of dentistry and medicine through broad-based scholarship that includes well-designed and controlled clinical research, analytical epidemiology, and the translation of basic science in pre-clinical studies. The journal typically publishes articles relevant to many related medical specialties including especially dermatology, gastroenterology, hematology, immunology, infectious diseases, neuropsychiatry, oncology and otolaryngology. The essential requirement is that all submitted research is hypothesis-driven, with significant positive and negative results both welcomed. Equal publication emphasis is placed on etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention and treatment. Oral Diseases endeavors to attract and accept only the highest quality submissions and to offer authors rapid decisions on their work. The 2017 rate of manuscript acceptance was ~28%. The median processing time from submission to first decision for manuscripts submitted to Oral Diseases is 21 days, based on a rolling 12 month calculation. Oral Diseases is published eight times per year. Keywords Behavioural sciencesBiochemistry/physiologyBiomaterialsBone and jointsCardiovascularCell biologyChemosensory disorders (including smell, taste)CraniofacialDermatologyDevelopmental disordersDiagnosticsEndocrine (including metabolic diseases)Epidemiology (includiing analytical epidemiology, prevention, public health)Gastroenterology (including hepatology, dysphagia, digestive disorders)GeneticsHaematologyImmunology (including autoimmune disease, allergies, immune defects, transplantation, rheumatology)Impairments (including degenerative diseases, physical, mental)Inflammatory diseases (including autoinflammatory diseases)InformaticsMedicine (including geriatric conditions, pediatrics)Mental healthMicrobiology (including infectious diseases, viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, prions)Molecular biologyMouth (including dental diseases, mucosal diseases, periodontium, saliva, salivary glands)NephrologyNeurology (including motor disorders, pain)Nutrition (including eating
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine
Editor-in-chief Giovanni LodiPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 9 in mainland China (about 5%); most named United States 41, United Kingdom 12, Italy 12, Brazil 12, Spain 10 (165 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Oral microbiology and periodontitis researchDentistry15%
- Oral Health Pathology and TreatmentDentistry13.9%
- Salivary Gland Disorders and FunctionsMedicine10.1%
- Head and Neck Cancer StudiesMedicine7.8%
- Oral and gingival health researchHealth Professions6%
- Oral and Maxillofacial PathologyDentistry5.5%
- Oral health in cancer treatmentMedicine4.7%
- HIV/AIDS oral health manifestationsMedicine4.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEPubMedEmbaseCAB AbstractsCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 3.08LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.1Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.8LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 6.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 6.8Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.87LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.12LetPub ·
- h-index
- 77LetPub ·
- h-index
- 141OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2,991OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.6OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 6.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 26.17%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 245LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 338Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 774,648Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 5,991 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 338 | 169 | 87 |
| 2025 | 368 | 191 | 679 |
| 2024 | 389 | 195 | 2,077 |
| 2023 | 364 | 189 | 2,994 |
| 2022 | 374 | 92 | 4,308 |
| 2021 | 364 | 110 | 6,059 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
102 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 55 days – 185 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 15 days (114 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 120 days
- Sample
- 114 articles with submission and acceptance dates (774 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- 4–8 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- Fairly easyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 21%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 21%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 6 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 6 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 117 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 13 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Open peer reviewPublisher website
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,990 / EUR 4,200 / GBP 3,340 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- APA
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Required, 4
- Not considered
- case reports
Article types accepted3, with length limits
- hypothesisOriginal Research Articles: Manuscripts reporting laboratory investigations, well-designed and controlled clinical research, and analytical epidemiology are inv…Length not stated
- original research articleOriginal Research Articles: Manuscripts reporting laboratory investigations, well-designed and controlled clinical research, and analytical epidemiology are inv…Length not stated
- reviewed with such papers. The word limit for Review Papers is 4,000 words, with a maximum of two tables or images and 50 references.main text ≤ 4,000 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- AI use Disclosing the use of artificial intelligence (AI)
If you or your co-authors have used Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) tools such as ChatGPT and others based on large language models (LLMs) to develop any portion of a manuscript, their use must be described transparently and in detail in the Methods section.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship 2.1. Authorship and Acknowledgements
Authorship standards: adheres to COPE International Standards for Authors Model summary
Authorship: Oral Diseases adheres to the International Standards for Authors published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). All authors named on a paper should agree to be named on the paper, and all authors so named should agree to the submission of the paper to Oral Diseases and approve the submitted and accepted versions of the publication. Any change to the author list should be appr…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest 2.5 Conflict of Interest and Source of Funding
All sources of institutional, private and corporate financial support for the work within the manuscript must be fully acknowledged, and any potential grant holders should be listed. Authors are also required to disclose any possible conflict of interest. These include financial (for example patent, ownership, stock ownership, consultancies, speaker’s fee). Information on sources of funding and an…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability
Data sharing policy: expects data sharing, requires data availability statement Model summary
Oral Diseases expects data sharing. All accepted manuscripts will need to publish a data availability statement to confirm the presence or absence of shared data.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Human subjects research must comply with Declaration of Helsinki (2002) and local requirements Model summary
Experimentation involving human subjects will only be published if such research has been conducted in full accordance with ethical principles, including the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki (version 2002) and the additional requirements, if any, of the country where the research has been carried out.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review 3.2. Transparent Peer Review
Transparent peer review: reviewer reports and decision letters linked from published article on Publons Model summary
This journal is participating in a Peer Review Transparency initiative. By submitting to this journal, authors agree that the reviewer reports, their responses, and the editor’s decision letter will be linked from the published article to where they appear on Publons in the case that the article is accepted. Authors have the opportunity to opt out during submission, and reviewers may remain anonym…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism 2.7 Avoiding allegations of plagiarism
The journal to which you are submitting your manuscript employs text matching software (iThenticate) to ensure against plagiarism. By submitting your manuscript to this journal you accept that your manuscript may be screened for plagiarism against previously published work. Authors should consider whether their manuscript may raise concerns via iThenticate, which will signal whether a paper is lik…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
Preprint policy: accepts articles previously published on preprint servers Model summary
Oral Diseases accepts articles previously published on preprint servers.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Country or region
- DENMARK
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1995
- ISSN
- 1354-523X
- Electronic ISSN
- 1601-0825
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 32, Issue 6 (June 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Oral Diseases
What CAS zone is Oral Diseases in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Oral Diseases is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Oral Diseases?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.08; CiteScore 6.8, h-index 141.
How long does peer review take at Oral Diseases?
Based on the dates recorded on 114 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 102 days (interquartile range 55–185 days); authors report an average review time of 4–8 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 21% (2025). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Oral Diseases?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: APA; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Required, 4. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Oral Diseases based?
Of the 165 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 9 (about 5%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (41), United Kingdom (12) and Italy (12). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Oral Diseases?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Oral Diseases is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, PubMed, Embase, CAB Abstracts and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Oral Diseases open access, and what is the APC?
Oral Diseases is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 4,990.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .