On March 20, 2024, Frontiers of Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine (FOMM) was selected for coverage in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), which a new index in the Web of Science™ Core Collection. As it’s indexed in ESCI, all articles published after 2022, beginning with 4(1), will be included (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Formal letter from the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
Frontiers of Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine (FOMM, Front Oral Maxillofac Med, ISSN 2664-777X) launched in May 2019 by the Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, College of Stomatology Shanghai Jiao Tong University and AME Publishing Company (Figure 2), is an open access, peer-reviewed electronic journal with the aims to serve as an international and professional platform for healthcare professionals to share their research, knowledge and experience.
Figure 2. The cover of the journal Frontiers of Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine (FOMM)
FOMM is the Official Publication of the Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases (China).
Since it was launched, the journal has been supported by a distinguished editorial team of worldwide experts (Figure 3), including 58 incumbent Editorial Board Members from 15 countries and regions (Figure 4).
Figure 3. Geographical distribution of incumbent Editorial Board Members (data updated on March 22, 2024)
Figure 4. A collage featuring the incumbent Editorial Board Members of FOMM
As a dedicated platform, where key questions in the field of oral and maxillofacial medicine may be answered, FOMM publishes flexible and diverse article genres in a fast electronic publication mode. Till now, FOMM has published 171 articles, 121 of which are Original Articles and Review Articles (Figure 5, 6). With an internationalized editorial board as a strong base, FOMM further gains support from authors and reviewers from all over the world. It is with their joint efforts that high-quality publications are guaranteed. Corresponding authors are mainly from USA, China, UK, Brazil, Spain and Germany (Figure 7).
Figure 5. Number of published articles (result by years)
Figure 6. Diverse types of all articles published (data updated on March 22, 2024)
Figure 7. Geographical distribution of all corresponding authors (data updated on March 22, 2024)
Apart from regular publications, FOMM also makes great efforts on the Special Series, which features a number of articles on certain topics. Since its birth, FOMM has published nine outstanding special series (Table 1), which could be found here: https://fomm.amegroups.org/post/category/special-series.
Table 1 Special Series have been published.
According to the records of Google Analytics, all together there are 99,906 visitors and 346,722 pageviews from May 2019 to December 2023 (Figure 8). Readers were from diverse countries, with a majority from the USA.
Figure 8. Website Pageviews Results by Years, 2019-2023 (Data collected from Google Analytics on Dec. 26, 2023)
To acknowledge the reviewers for their outstanding contributions to the peer review process, we highlighted some of them with a brief interview of their thoughts and insights as a reviewer from 2023 (Figure 9). Apart from the reviewers, we interviewed some of our outstanding authors who have been making immense efforts in their research fields (Figure 10).
Figure 9. Interviews in 2023: outstanding reviewers
Figure 10. Interviews in 2023: outstanding authors
To raise awareness of medical advances among clinicians through translated content, and to enhance the links between Chinese scientists and the international medical community, the FOMM Chinese edition (the Chinese edition of Frontiers of Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine) has been launched in 2022. The translation of a selection of full-text content from FOMM applies rigorous standards to ensure accuracy and quality control. The FOMM Chinese edition will deliver the quality clinical and scientific content to the Chinese medical and clinical research community, which can be accessed via Article options (Figure 11), the FOMM Chinese edition button of the home page (Figure 12) and the social media Wechat “AME Keyan Shijian”(Figure 13).
Figure 11. Access to the FOMM Chinese edition via Article options
Figure 12. Access to the FOMM Chinese edition via the home page: the FOMM Chinese edition button (a) and the left corner (b)
Figure 13. Access to the FOMM Chinese edition via the social media Wechat “AME Keyan Shijian”
Taking this opportunity, we’d extend again our sincere thanks to the Editorial Board Members, Guest Editors, Authors, Reviewers and Readers, for all your continued and tremendous support.At step by step, we believe that FOMM will progress continually to become a top-tier platform for researchers and physicians in the field of oral and maxillofacial medicine around the world.