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Revista Portuguesa de Estomatologia, Revista Portuguesa de Estomatologia,

Medicina Dentária e Cirurgia Maxilofacial Medicina Dentária e Cirurgia Maxilofacial
Portuguese Journal of Stomatology, Dental Medicine and Maxillofacial Surgery

rev port estomatol med dent cir maxilofac. 2026;67(1):1

Editorial

Three Decades of Commitment: A Farewell
and a New Chapter

Três Décadas de Compromisso: Uma Despedida e um Novo Ciclo

1,
Jaime Portugal *
1 Editor-in-Chief

In 1994, when I first joined the Editorial Board of this journal, Surgery to publish their work; to the Reviewers, whose anon-
I could hardly imagine the depth of the connection that today ymous and rigorous work is the cornerstone of our credibil-
ends. After a long journey serving the editorial team and hold- ity; to our Readers, who throughout these years believed in
ing the position of Editor-in-Chief since 2011, the time has the quality of our publication and motivated us to evolve; to
come to pass on the torch. the Scientific Council and Associate Editors, for their con-
Throughout its history, the Portuguese Journal of stant support and tireless work in managing the submitted
Stomatology, Dental Medicine and Maxillofacial Surgery has manuscripts; to our Linguistic Editor, whose contribution
evolved alongside our profession, the scientific community, was fundamental to the accuracy and clarity of the English
and society at large. Aware of the global community we in- texts, ensuring our international standards; to Publicações
habit, we have focused our efforts on internationalization to Ciência e Vida, for the professionalism and dedication shown
ensure greater visibility for the work of our researchers and in the production and editing of the journal over the last
clinicians. This path was achieved through online publication years; and finally, to the successive Presidents and Board
in an Open Access format, continuous rigor in the peer-re- Members of the Portuguese Society of Stomatology and Den-
view process, and indexing in prestigious databases such as tal Medicine (SPEMD – Sociedade Portuguesa de Estomatolo-
Web of Science, Scopus, and SciELO. To the best of my knowl- gia e Medicina Dentária), for having believed in and uncon-
edge, this is the only Portuguese journal in the field of oral ditionally supported this project.
health with a Journal Impact Factor (JIF) in the Web of Science It is now time for me to step aside. The journal will be led
(WoS). The latest relevant milestone in this journey was our by Professor Duarte Marques, to whom I wish the greatest suc-
transition to English-only publication: after years of encour- cess, confident that the journal remains in excellent hands.
aging submissions in foreign languages, at the beginning of It has been a privilege to serve the dental medicine com-
2025, the journal began accepting and publishing articles ex- munity over the past 30 years. I leave with a sense of duty
clusively in English, cementing our place in the global scien- fulfilled and the serenity of seeing a well-charted future ahead.
tific landscape.
This path and the results achieved were a collective ef-
fort. I therefore extend my most sincere gratitude to the Au- orcid
thors, for the trust they showed in choosing the Portuguese
Journal of Stomatology, Dental Medicine and Maxillofacial Jaime Portugal 0000-0001-5058-6554

* Corresponding authors.
E-mail address: jaimeportugal@edu.ulisboa.pt (Jaime Portugal)
http://doi.org/10.24873/j.rpemd.2026.04.1569
1646-2890/© 2026 Sociedade Portuguesa de Estomatologia e Medicina Dentária. Published by SPEMD.
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