Endodontics is the branch of dentistry which deals with the human dental pulp and periradicular tissues. It is concerned with the treatment of oral pains of pulpal, root amputation and pulp therapy such as pulp capping and treatment procedures can be carried out by means of cores involving the space in root canal. The impact factor of journal provides quantitative assessment tool for grading, evaluating, sorting and comparing journals of similar kind. It reflects the average number of citations to recent articles published in science and social science journals in a particular year or period, and is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field. It is first devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information. The impact factor of a journal is evaluated by dividing the number of current year citations to the source items published in that journal during the previous two years.
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