JADA makes list of top 100 journals

The Journal of the American Dental Association ranks among the 100 most influential journals of biology and medicine published worldwide over the last century, according to the Special Libraries Association.

JADA was the only dental journal so designated.

As part of its centennial celebration this year, SLA’s Biomedical and Life Sciences Division conducted a poll of its 686 members of record to come up with the list. For the sake of uniformity and fair comparison, only journals of original research and professional practice were eligible. Results were announced in June.

The poll yielded an impressive aggregation of professional journals—large and small, foreign and domestic. It’s a list that puts JADA in some very good company.

A small sampling of other journals on it includes the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Nature, The British Medical Journal, the Journal of Natural History and Science.