About the Journal

The Dental Journal of Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (DJIGIMS) is an open-access peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing high-quality articles in the field of Dentistry and Allied Sciences. The journal is owned by the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Science and published by the Scientific Scholar.

Aims & Scope

1.The journal aims to publish scientiﬁc contents on all specialties of dentistry and allied sciences.
2. To provide the academic platform at national and global level to all the faculties, researchers and students to update their skills, knowledge, updated information and advancement in the ﬁeld of their specialty and interest.
3. To promote habit of scientiﬁc writing and research work amongst faculty members, students and residents of Indira Gandhi Institute Of Medical Sciences, IGIMS, Patna.
4. To provide platform for disseminating information, ideas and innovative developments in diﬀerent disciplines of Dental/Medical sciences.

Audience

Our audience includes researchers from the field of Dentistry and Allied Sciences.

Review Process

DJIGIMS has a highly rigorous peer-review process that makes sure that manuscripts are scientifically accurate, relevant, novel and important. Authors disclose all conflicts, affiliations and financial associations such that the published content is not biased.

Editorial Team

The editorial board comprises a panel of experts from various disciplines of medical and allied sciences to provide their expertise and guidance in maintaining the clarity of content and focus of the purpose for the journal.

About the Editor

Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Nimmi Singh
Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology,
PGIDER, IGIMS, Patna
singhdrnimmi@gmail.com ;
editor@djigims.com

Facts About the Journal

This is a peer reviewed journal published Semiannual, follows a double-blind review process. Its open access model ensures worldwide visibility and boosts authors’ prominence in medical research.

Abstracting and Indexing Information

The journal is registered with the following abstracting partners:
CrossRef, ReadCube

Journal Ethics

The Dental Journal of Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences is committed to meeting and upholding the standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. We follow closely the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices in order to meet these requirements. For a summary of our specific policies regarding duplicate publication, conflicts of interest, patient consent, etc., please visit our Ethical Guidelines section

Plagiarism Policy

The journal uses plagiarism check software (iThenticate) on the Editor’s and Reviewer’s panel in the manuscript management system which is used to check and control Plagiarism for each article. Any manuscript, that is found to have plagiarism is rejected.

Archival Policy

We use PORTICO for our third-party repository for all articles published with us. All our articles are assigned a DOI number. We are members of https://crossref.org

Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing

Dental Journal of Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences is an open-access journal, and manuscripts published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0), which allows others to remix, transform, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.

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. Dental Journal of Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences has a policy that changes will not be made after the publication of an article without following accepted procedures for making corrections to the scientific record.

Subscription Information

To subscribe to this journal, please log on to https://scientificscholar.com/buy-subscriptions.

Publisher

Scientific Scholar LLC (scientificscholar.com) is a well-respected medical publisher that fully supports open access publishing models, Subscription and Society based journal models through its own in-house peer-review management system – EditorialAssist (journalmanagement.org). The head office of Scientific Scholar is in Rochester, NY, USA and has a subsidiary arm in India.

The mission of the Scientific Scholar is “Share, Learn and Improve”.