The Time Has Come: Journal of Endodontic Microsurgery: A First Peer-Reviewed Open Access Publication Focused on Microsurgery in Endodontics

Abstract

Multiple articles, textbooks and chapters, parts of the residency programs, meetings` topics, courses with hands-on training, and social media groups with more than 12,600 members; it`s not a full list of the scientific and practical developments associated with endodontic microsurgery (EM). The field of endodontics and EM is flourishing around the globe and more and more dental clinics/offices became equipped by microscopes, special EM instruments, used 3-D printed cutting guides, and educate their stuff, etc. Analysis of the existed publications at the (1) Portal of International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) International Center and (2) SCImago Journal and Country Rank [10] revealed a scholar gap in such growing field as EM. Using a search function at the Portal of ISSN International Center, all publications with a word endodontic(s), endodontology, microsurgery, and microsurgical in their titles were analyzed and no endodontic microsurgery was found. Among 141 journals of in a subject area “Dentistry,” category “Dentistry (Miscellaneous),” (metrics based on Scopus® data as of April 2021) only eight of them (5.67%) have the word endodontic(s) in their titles (Table 1). Moreover, as of September 30, 2021 another endodontic publication (Endodontology journal) became a Scopus-indexed journal. Thus, despite nine endodontically-focused journals are included to the prestigious database and published some number of EM papers; none of them are focused precisely on EM. That is why an initiative group of five EM-associated practitioners take a responsibility as chief editors to move the EM direction forward with a new Journal of Endodontic Microsurgery (JEM). The names of those experts and opinion leaders are Spyros Floratos (Greece, United States), Daniel Flynn (United Kingdom), Carlos Aznar Portoles (Netherlands), Oleksandr B. Tkachenko (Ukraine) (Fig 1), and Puala Villa (Colombia). All editors have a clear purpose to publish every year a volume of high-quality peer-reviewed articles.