Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry: Indexing and Impact Factor

The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry is a journal in prosthodontics. The NLM Catalog assigns it the MeSH heading Prosthodontics and records it as the official publication of the Academy of Denture Prosthetics, the American Denture Society, the Pacific Coast Society of Prosthodontists and others. Crossref lists the publisher as Elsevier – Mosby, and OpenAlex names Elsevier BV as host organization.

Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry: indexing and identifiers

The NLM Catalog record (NLM ID 0376364, last revised 8 May 2026) gives these details:

Item	Value in the NLM Catalog
Title and abbreviation	The Journal of prosthetic dentistry; J Prosthet Dent
ISSN	0022-3913 (print), 1097-6841 (electronic); see ISSN
CODEN	JPDEAT
Publication start and frequency	Volume 1, Jan./Mar. 1951; monthly
MEDLINE and PubMed	Currently indexed, full indexing, coverage from volume 15 issue 5 (Sept./Oct. 1965); see MEDLINE
Earlier indexing	Index to dental literature, volume 15 issue 5 (1965) to volume 83 issue 5 (May 2000)

Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry impact factor: how the figure is made

Clarivate defines the JIF as how often an average article from a journal is cited in a particular year. The numerator is the number of citations in the JCR year to anything the journal published in the previous two years. The denominator is the number of citable items, meaning articles and reviews, published in those two years; letters and editorial material are left out of the denominator. A 2017 JIF, for example, uses 2017 citations to 2015 and 2016 content.

Illustration with invented numbers (not data for this journal): if a journal published 300 articles and reviews across 2023 and 2024 and received 1,200 citations in 2025 to everything it published in those two years, its 2025 JIF would be 1,200 ÷ 300 = 4.0.

Clarivate then ranks each journal within its JCR category. A journal in the first quartile (Q1) performs better than at least 75% of journals in that category on JIF, and a JIF percentile gives the same ranking at finer grain.

Other citation measures for the journal

OpenAlex publishes open indicators for the journal. These are not Clarivate or Scopus metrics, and OpenAlex counts citations in its own index.

OpenAlex indicator (as of 7 November 2026)	Value
2-year mean citedness (a JIF-style measure: mean citation count of works published this year or in the two years before, excluding peer reviews)	3.71
h-index (all works)	234

For related measures see CiteScore (Scopus) and the Journal Citation Indicator (Clarivate).

Using journal metrics with care

Clarivate’s own guidance says the JIF is only a number unless it is placed into context. It describes the journal as a whole, not any single paper or author, and the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) says journal-based metrics such as the JIF should not be used as a surrogate measure of the quality of individual research articles, to assess an individual scientist’s contributions, or in hiring, promotion or funding decisions. When you report a figure, give the metric name, the JCR year or data date, the category and the source together, for example “JIF, JCR 2025, Clarivate”, and never swap one provider’s number for another’s.

Sources

• NLM Catalog record 376364, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/376364, as of 7 November 2026.
• Clarivate, Journal Citation Reports guide, clarivate.libguides.com/jcr, page updated 21 April 2026, as of 7 November 2026.
• OpenAlex source record for ISSN 0022-3913, api.openalex.org/sources/issn:0022-3913, and its source object documentation, as of 7 November 2026.
• San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, General Recommendation 1, sfdora.org/read, as of 7 November 2026.
• Crossref journal record, api.crossref.org/journals/0022-3913, as of 7 November 2026.