title: [The new start,the new pursuit].
abstract: Shanghai Journal of Stomatology(Shanghai Kou Qiang Yi Xue,ISSN 1006-7248),a peer reviewed national journal on oral medicine, oral and maxillofacial surgery, prosthodontics, pediatric dentistry, preventive dentistry, oral pathology, oral radiology, etc, was recently accepted and included in index Medicus and MEDLINE. This is an exciting and encouraging event both for the Editorial Board and authors. The journal will do its best to improve the academic and printing quality in accordance with the demands of MEDLINE and international conventions. The Editorial Board was re-founded last year with addition of internationally renowned experts on stomatology. Every submitted manuscript was evaluated by a minimum of 2 expert reviewers. Almost all of the manuscripts were returned to the corresponding authors with recommendations for revision and correction. In addition, statistics will be addressed for each manuscript to ensure the scientific credibility and repeatability. To help the authors to understand and apply statistics soundly, a series of tutorials on statistics will be published in the 6 issues of this year. All the English information is revised and processed by our invited experts. What we should do next is to increase the impact factor of the journal and shorten the publication periods(currently 9 to 12 months)as much as possible. what we wish is that the impact of this journal will be magnified through the joint efforts from our reviewers, editors and authors worldwide in the future.
authors.forename: Zhi-Yuan
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D008523:MEDLARS; D019242:Oral Medicine; D010506:Periodicals as Topic