The Ghana Dental Journal(GDJ) is the official publication of the Ghana Dental Association (GDA).
The Journal publishes scientific papers, reports, research articles, and announcements of interest to Academia, Health Scientists. Articles in the field of dentistry, medical specialties, including basic sciences, paraclinical and clinical sciences, are published. Short or preliminary report on Original research work is also published
Each issue of Ghana Dental Journal (GDJ) is available in print
Article processing fees…$100
Aim
The Ghana Dental Journal publishes scientific papers, reports, research articles, and announcements of interest to Academia, Oral Health Scientists. Articles in the field of dentistry, medical specialties, including basic sciences, paraclinical and clinical sciences, are published. Short or preliminary report on Original research work is also published
Mission
The Ghana Dental Journal is a peer-reviewed publication dedicated to disseminating research findings and policy concerns in the oral health sciences and associated health disciplines. The journal aims to continually raise the visibility and influence of oral health sciences research in Ghana , the sub-region and globally
COPYRIGHT OWNERSHIP
The Ghana Dental Association publishes all content in the Ghana Dental Journal. All rights are reserved. The Ghana Dental Journal publishes articles in Open Access with an Article processing Charge.
When the paper is accepted, the authors will be asked to transfer the article’s copyright to the Ghana Dental Journal. This will ensure that information is protected and disseminated as widely as feasible under copyright rules.
The Ghana Dental Journal conforms to the Creative Commons Attribution BY license. This copyright license permits others to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. More information on copyright and licensing information can be found.
PRIVACY STATEMENT
The names, email addresses, and information entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
PEER-REVIEW PROCESS
• The Ghana Dental Journal follows double blind peer review policy. The manuscript is sent to two reviewers, who are experts in respective field, to review the paper in the light of journal’s guidelines and features of a quality research paper. For manuscript that require revisions, the same reviewers will be used to ensure that the quality of the revised paper is acceptable.
• Articles are subject to peer and editorial revision to clarify them. Two reviewers in the related field or specialty are invited per article. Articles that do not conform to the requirements of this Journal are returned to the author(s) after a median period not exceeding eight (8) weeks from the date of receipt of the articles. Returned articles may be accepted for publication if they are modified to an acceptable form as pointed out to the Authors.
• We operate a transparent peer review process for the Ghana Dental Journal where reviewers’ names do not accompany reviewer comments to authors (which means that authors by default will not see the reviewers’ names but only their comments. )By agreeing to provide a report, reviewers understand that their reports will be made available, upon request, under an Open Access license Creative Commons CC-BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) if the manuscript is published.
DISCLAIMER
Opinions and statements expressed in the publications are those of the authors alone, and not of the editors, reviewers or the Ghana Dental Journal and its publisher.
ARCHIVING
The journal is backed up electronically at the CrossRef, through AJOL which preserves access to the journal content in the event the journal is no longer published. This constitutes access to the archive of published papers.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI® number): Each paper published in Ghana Dental Journal is assigned a DOI® number, which appears alongside the citation reference for that article. The DOI is a string of numbers, letters and symbols used to permanently identify an article or document and link to it on the web.