Acta Odontologica Scandinavica publishes original research papers as well as critical reviews relevant to the diagnosis, epidemiology, health service, prevention, aetiology, pathogenesis, pathology, physiology, microbiology, development and treatment of diseases affecting tissues of the oral cavity and associated structures including papers on cause and effect or explanatory/associative relationships for experimental or observational studies.
Open access policy
Acta Odontologica Scandinavica content is freely available online from Volume 1 (1939) on the journal’s website.
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Since March 2024, the journal publishes all content as fully Open Access, meaning authors retain copyright to their work, and content is published under the (CC-BY 4.0) license unless otherwise specified. This license permits sharing, adapting, and using the material for any purpose, including commercial use, with the condition of providing full attribution to the original publication.
Articles are published as soon as the final proof is approved and the publication fee is paid. All articles are assigned a DOI number (Digital Object Identifier).
Authors are encouraged to deposit the final published version of their article on their website or in an institutional archive immediately after publication.
When publishing articles in Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, the authors grant first publication rights to the Acta Odontologica Scandinavica Society. In consideration of the publication of the article, the authors grant Acta Odontologica Scandinavica the license to:
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