Edit_5_4_2
Prerequisites to improve the quality
Editorials
of the editorial management
system of the journal
Marian-Vladimir CONSTANTINESCU
DDS, MSc, PhD, Professor
Editor-in-Chief
Dear readers,
This fourth issue of the Stomatology Edu Journal (Stoma Edu J) closes a stage, namely the first five years in the
existence of the journal. Together with the other two Editors-in-Chief, Prof. Jean-François Roulet (University of
Florida) and Professor Rolf Ewers (Medical University of Vienna), we have tried to promote it in the academic and
editorial space on all possible communication channels. I am deeply satisfied to tell you that through its important
research, educational and specialty work, your Stomatology Edu Journal (Stoma Edu J) has managed to overcome
the critical target mass of potential readers, the over 85,000 dentists in Central and Eastern European. Of course, if
the 2013 census indicated there were 85,000 dentists, even though their number, with all the constant migration to
the Western European countries, has increased by several thousand, the journal has been accessed by December
2018 by more than 190,000 readers, the difference being provided by readers in the United States, Great Britain,
China, South Korea, India, Germany, Morocco, France, Seychelles, Greece, Turkey, Brazil, Austria, Honduras, Italy,
Canada, Belize, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates and others[1].
Upon its online appearance, the Stomatology Edu Journal (Stoma Edu J), in its first year of publication and after the
second issue, in December 2014, had 190 unique visitors who made 534 visits to 1730 pages. There were 522 from
Romania, 362 from France, 348 from Ukraine, 291 from USA, 56 from Germany, 18 from the UK, 16 from Austria,
14 from the Russian Federation, 12 from Japan, and 10 from Vietnam, Lebanon and Sweden. Now after 5 years, after
the publication of 15 issues at the beginning of December, we present the readers with the following significant data:
over 190,000 unique visitors they made 418,458 visits to 1,901,772 pages, 589,857, from Romania, 521,351 from USA,
177,888 from China, 164,851 from the Russian Federation, 60,674 from France, 52,791 from Ukraine, 22,552 from
Germany, 13,602 from Canada, 12,346 from the United Kingdom, 12,019 from India, 8,024 from the Seychelles, 7,794
from Poland, 4.927 from South Korea, 4.191 from Brazil, 3.027 from Estonia, 2.518 from Italy, 1.913 from Moldova,
1.795 from Austria, 1.614 from the United Arab Emirates, and 1.350 from Israel. Exceeding the critical addressability
number is due to several achievements accumulated during the five years of sustained activity that have increased
the visibility of the Stomatology Edu Journal (Stoma Edu J), namely:
• constantly increasing the quality of the articles published due to the demanding work of the team of reviewers
coordinated by Professor Emeritus, Stephen F. Rosenstiel, from The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA,
Reviewer-in-Chief, to which there have been a series of prestigious Academic Editors associated since 2017;
• the scientific quality of the articles published has been consistently supported by the consistent language
supervision permanently provided by the English Language Editor-in-Chief, Roxana-Cristina Petcu, Phil, PhD,
Professor, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania;
• access granted by the American Dental Association, ADA, to our readers from the first 2017 issue for each of
the Stoma Edu J issues to an article with CE Program FAQs courtesy of Professor Michael Glick, American Dental
Association Journal Editor, JADA, Mr. Michael Springer, Publisher, JADA, Mr. Nawin Gupta, Director of Business
Operations, ADA and Mrs Stefanie K. Jewell-Thomas, Elsevier;
• the Crossref allocation of a unique alphanumeric string, namely a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) as of 2017 and the
DOI identification will be retrospectively attributed to all articles published starting with the first number;
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• adding, as of 2017, to all references mentioned in the articles published alongside the Digital Object Identifier
(DOI), active links from PubMed, Google Scholar and Scopus to join the quoted publications circuit;
• positioning the journal in significant databases such as: Academia.edu[2]; InfoBase Index[3]; Google Scholar[4];
SHERPA / RoMEO[5]; National Library of Medicine (NLM)[6]; International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
(ICMJE)[7].
• the evaluation and indexing by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in 2018 as a certification of the
quality of the published articles. DOAJ posted on its website 40 articles, Abstract and Full Text[8].
In the coming months, we look forward to the scientific quality review and the technical evaluation from PubMed
Central (PMC) and Clarivate Analytics. The PubMed Central (PMC) assessment consists in the mandatory
compliance with the minimum technical publishing standards (PDF and XML) and the quality of the articles. The
obligatory technical condition of the XML format has put us in a position to look for a language-savvy collaborator.
Our new collaborator, Dr. Simon Cleemput, a dental student at the University of Leuven, Belgium, has offered to
support the unanimous desire of the editors and many other authors so that the Stomatology Edu Journal (Stoma
Edu J) could be registered in MEDLINE.
Professor J.-F. Roulet, guided by John Calvin Maxwell's quote, an American author focusing on leadership, “You
can not solve tomorrow's problems with today's solutions.” has decided to introduce an editorial management
software https://manuscriptmanager.com. The software has been successfully used by Prof. J.-F. Roulet as editor
of The Journal of Adhesive Dentistry, a journal rated IF: 1.691 (2017) and Oral Health & Preventive Dentistry for
many years. This editorial software is a gift offered to me by Prof J-F Roulet on my 70th birthday . The benefits
of this software that simplifies the peer review process will be enjoyed by all authors of the Stomatology Edu
Journal (Stoma Edu J) starting with the first issue in 2019. Beginning on January 1st 2019, authors can log in to
www.manuscriptmanager.net/stom[9], create a user name and password as an author and from then on the fully
blinded peer review process will be accomplished in a hopefully fast and efficient way. The submitted manuscript
will then be sent to reviewers by the click of a button by the editor and reviewers will be reminded automatically if
they did not meet the deadlines. In order to respond to the invitation of the Romanian Academy to stimulate the
international circulation of scientific information through the electronic archive - "Academica Romanian Index", I
renew my request to every Editor who wishes to bring his scientific contribution to the Stomatology Edu Journal
(Stoma Edu J) that, by March 1st, they should send a CV of maximum 250 words regarding their contribution in
the field, surname, names, scientific titles, current administrative titles, the institution's logo and a recent 3.5 x 4.5
cm color photograph .
In line with the management software introduced to make the publishing team more accountable, to increase the
quality of the published articles and the number of readers since 2019, the editorial board will be restructured and
will be organized by topics. Allow me to thank you for your five-year presence in the Editorial Board and please do
not forget the over 190,000 readers of the Stomatology Edu Journal (Stoma Edu J) who are waiting to read an article
written by you and your colleagues as soon as possible.
On behalf of the Executive Editorial Board, I wish you and your loved ones a Blessed Christmas, a Happy New Year,
and may your home be full of peace, health, well-being and joy.
Sincerely yours,
M-V Constantinescu
Editor-in-Chief
References
1. https://server4.megahost.net:2083/cpsess2757419012/awstats.pl?config=stomaeduj.com&ssl=&lang=en&login=1&post_login=90261933584140
2. http://independent.academia.edu/StomatologyEduJournal
3. http://www.infobaseindex.com/journal-accepted.php
4. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22stomatology+edu+journal%22&oq=
5. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/search.php?issn=2360-2406
6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/101699548
7. http://www.icmje.org/search/?q=stomatology+edu+journal
8. https://doaj.org/toc/2502-0285
9. https://www.manuscriptmanager.net/sLib/v4/login.php?paramScreen=jHJY/hWDHe9I91I3TUyKW8TMk207pdjyWotrYzpoeRI=
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25241/stomaeduj.2018.5(4).edit.2
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