Journal of Oral Rehabilitation
Journal of Oral Rehabilitation 2014 41; 1--1
Editorial
New TMD classification – new year for JOR
First of all, let me on behalf of the editorial team,
thank all authors, referees, editorial board members
and Associate Editors for their dedicated contribution
to JOR in 2013. Indeed, it was a great year for JOR.
Our impact factor has been steadily increasing over
the last 10 years and now has reached the impressive
2
344 with a ranking of 18 out of 83 Dentistry Oral
Surgery and Medicine journals.
Furthermore, Professor Qiufei Xie from Peking Uni-
versity School of Stomatology hosted our second
CORE China event in October with many excellent
presentations related to Future Challenges in Prosth-
odontic Rehabilitation of Oral Function. The reviews
derived from this meeting will of course be published
in JOR during 2014. We also successfully imple-
mented a virtual conference in 2013 related to our
first CORE China topics on occlusion. We are eager to
continue to use this media in order to disseminate
high-quality information related to oral rehabilitation
in addition to a continuation of the physical CORE
meetings. Currently, we are planning venues and top-
ics for the next CORE events and as a new twist, we
are determined to include a special emphasis on clini-
cal updates presented by outstanding experts.
The new year also means inclusion of new editorial
board members and we welcome our new ambassa-
dors for JOR (see inside cover). As a small token of
appreciation we have included a link to all our refer-
ees during 2013 (Data S1) and we would like to high-
light the particular efforts of Professor Paulo Conti,
Dr. Alan Glaros and Dr. Ambra Michelotti who have
contributed with the most referee reports, a truly
outstanding and loyal support.
© 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Importantly, we also in this first issue of JOR pres-
ent a new taxonomy of Temporomandibular Disorders
(TMD) (Peck et al. JOR 2014). For the first time, we
now have a truly comprehensive classification of
almost all conditions and diseases that can affect the
human temporomandibular joint, muscles and associ-
ated tissues. The strength is that it is closely coordi-
nated with the validated system for the most common
TMDs (DC/TMD) and headaches, but takes into
account the many other, although perhaps less com-
mon conditions, in a comprehensive framework. This
will most certainly provide clinicians and researchers
in all medical fields with an excellent guideline for
diagnosis and set the stage for better and more
rational management strategies.
Happy New Year.
Peter Svensson
Editor-in-Chief,
Lou Whelan
Managing Editor
Supporting Information
Additional Supporting Information may be found in
the online version of this article:
Data S1 Reviewer summary.
doi: 10.1111/joor.12143