JCDA (Journal)
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| Discipline | Dentistry |
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| Language | English and French |
| Edited by | John O'Keefe (Director, Knowledge Networks) |
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Publication history
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1879–1935 as Dominion Dental Journal, 1915-1935 as La Revue dentaire canadienne, 1935-present as Journal of the Canadian Dental Association |
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| Frequency | Bimonthly (printed), Continuous (electronic) |
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| J. Can. Dent. Assoc. | |
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0709-8936 (print) 1488-2159 (web) |
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)JCDA, the Journal of the Canadian Dental Association, is a bimonthly peer-reviewed dental journal published by the Canadian Dental Association. It is more commonly referred to by its web address JCDA.ca, owing to its evolution into a print and electronic based knowledge network.
Published dental literature in Canada was first produced by Dr. W.H. Elliot of Montreal, PQ who published 18 papers in the American Dental Journal starting in 1842. In the 1850s there were several attempts to create a Canadian dental journal (the Family Dentist from Brockville and Journal of the Times from Halifax) but none lasted very long.
In 1868, Dr. W. George Beers of Montreal ("the father of lacross") published the Canadian Journal of Dental Science. Dr. Beers later moved to Hamilton, Ontario where he recruited Dr. Curtis Chittenden (a founder of the Ontario Dental Association) as an associate editor. The journal struggled and eventually failed in 1879.
Dr. Beers, returned to Montreal where, in 1889, he launched the Dominion Dental Journal 10 years after the failure of his previous journal. The Dominion Dental Journal became Canada's preeminent dental journal and persisted for more than 46 years. In 1935, it was absorbed by the newly created Journal of the Canadian Dental Association and joined with La Revue dentaire canadienne, a French language dental journal that had been founded in 1915 under the editorship of Honoré Thibault. JCDA has been published since that time in both English and French.
The modern JCDA has transformed into a network of knowledge delivery vehicles. The printed journal still exists but it is one piece of a system that includes the JCDA.ca website, the JCDA Clinical Q&A blogs, the JCDA Oasis mobile platform and social media bulletins through email (JCDA Express and JCDA Bulletin), Twitter (JCDATweets & JCDAClinicalQA), Facebook and LinkedIn.
In the 2012 Journal Citation Reports, JCDA had an impact factor of 0.624. JCDA is indexed in Medline, Journal Citation Reports and Science Citation Index.
JCDA has a continuous publication model, where articles are published to JCDA.ca before, or in place, of being published in the printed journal. The printed journal is distributed to all dentists and dental students in Canada as well some colleagues outside of Canada.
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