E-Resources to Support Dental Medicine
Al Maktoum Medical Library collection provides current and up-to-date scholarly and scientific literature to fulfil the academic and research requirement of our students, faculty, staff and wider medical community. Resources covers all aspects of dental medicine, together with related material from the biological, chemical, and physical sciences, as well as in areas of current interest such as plastic and reconstructive surgery, aesthetic dentistry radiology and cosmetic dentistry. Databases are accessible to everyone on campus, remote access to the resources is limited to registered members of the library.
Key Databases and Journal Collection
Dentistry and Oral Sciences Source
Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source (DOSS) covers all facets of dentistry including dental public health, endodontics, facial pain & surgery, odontology, oral & maxillofacial pathology/surgery/radiology, orthodontology, pediatric dentistry, periodontology, and prosthodontics. Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source contains more than 200 dental and oral health journals. Database contains cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 250 journals and dozens of monographs.
Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source (DOSS) covers following subject areas:
- Cosmetic dentistry
- Dental anesthesiology
- Dental public health
- Endodontics
- Facial pain and surgery
- Forensic odontology
- General dentistry
- Geriatric dentistry
- Odontology
- Oral and maxillofacial pathology
- Oral and maxillofacial radiology
- Oral and maxillofacial surgery
- Orthodontics and dentofacial orthopaedics
- Pediatric dentistry
- Periodontics
- Prosthodontics
Medline Complete
Created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is an authoritative index of biomedical and health journals used by health care professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers engaged in clinical care, public health and health policy development. MEDLINE contains citations from approximately 5,600 journals published worldwide. MEDLINE Complete provides the full text of over 2,500 of these journals.
ClinicalKey
ClinicalKey is a peer-reviewed, evidence-based point-of-care clinical information service for physicians and healthcare professionals. It is a tool that searches extensive full-text holdings for clinical answers in journal articles, books, videos clinical resource and practice guidelines. ClinicalKey delivers all of Elsevier”s medical and surgical content in one dynamic resource, giving physicians access to over 900 top books, over 500 top journals, thousands of videos and millions of images.
Wiley Online Library
Wiley Online Library is a collection of online resources covering life, health, and physical sciences as well as social science and the humanities. It delivers access to journals and various other resources, including Wiley-Blackwell, Wiley-VCH, and Jossey-Bass. Library Subscribes to 10 high ranked journals in Dentistry from Wiley journals.
- Australian Endodontic Journal
- Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research
- Clinical Oral Implants Research
- Journal of Clinical Periodontology
- Journal of Periodontal Research
- Journal of Prosthodontics
- Periodontology 2000
- Journal of Dental Education
- Journal of Periodontology
- Clinical Advances in Periodontics
Science Direct
Science Direct provides trusted, high-quality, interdisciplinary research and scholarly literature, to make teaching, coursework and research more efficient and effective.
Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. The Cochrane Library provides practitioners with protocols, systematic reviews, abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and clinical trials abstracts, ensuring they have the most up-to-date, independent, and assessed healthcare information at their fingertips.
Electronic Books Collection
Springer eBooks
Springer eBook collections offer accurate reproductions of high-quality Springer print book publications, together with all the added benefits of an online environment, including exceptional search capabilities and bookmarks. Access available for more than 10,000 eBooks.
Clinical Key eBooks
Books includes medical and surgical text books and many reference works.
Top 15 Most Cited Dental Journals
The below list are the top most cited dental journals as per Scopus data, these journals are available through Al Maktoum Medical Library.
Title | CiteScore | 2017-20 Citations | 2017-20 Documents | % Cited | SNIP | SJR | Publisher |
Periodontology 2000 | 15 | 2752 | 184 | 99 | 4.092 | 3.725 | Wiley-Blackwell |
International journal of oral science | 13.6 | 1812 | 133 | 80 | 1.848 | 1.395 | Springer Nature |
Journal of Clinical Periodontology | 10.7 | 6608 | 620 | 84 | 3.236 | 3.456 | Wiley-Blackwell |
Journal of Dental Research | 9.9 | 7029 | 708 | 88 | 2.122 | 1.979 | SAGE |
Clinical Oral Implants Research | 8.6 | 5618 | 655 | 86 | 2.045 | 2.407 | Wiley-Blackwell |
Dental Materials | 8.4 | 6385 | 764 | 85 | 2.073 | 1.77 | Elsevier |
International Endodontic Journal | 7.6 | 4655 | 611 | 86 | 2.137 | 1.988 | Wiley-Blackwell |
Journal of Endodontics | 7.1 | 7679 | 1086 | 88 | 1.97 | 1.85 | Elsevier |
Journal of Periodontology | 7.1 | 4528 | 642 | 79 | 1.612 | 2.036 | Wiley-Blackwell |
Oral Oncology | 6.8 | 6672 | 979 | 80 | 1.647 | 1.623 | Elsevier |
Molecular Oral Microbiology | 6.7 | 855 | 128 | 84 | 1.106 | 1.18 | Wiley-Blackwell |
Journal of Periodontal Research | 6.4 | 2478 | 388 | 84 | 1.395 | 1.31 | Wiley-Blackwell |
Journal of Dentistry | 6.2 | 4260 | 691 | 77 | 2.014 | 1.504 | Elsevier |
Journal of Oral Microbiology | 6.2 | 1038 | 168 | 83 | 1.545 | 1.484 | Taylor & Francis |