Can Articles from the Images Section Be Cited in Journals Indexed in Scopus? Launch of a New Images Section Focused on Digitalization

In this editorial, we analyze articles of the “Images” type in other peer-reviewed journals as well as the 6-year experience of publishing such articles in the Journal of Diagnostics and Treatment of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (JDTOMP). We also describe the experience of citing articles from the JDTOMP and The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in the Scopus database. This is important for every peer-reviewed publication because one of the notes and conditions for indexing a journal in Scopus is citations of its articles in good journals indexed in Scopus. Taking into account the experience of journal in publishing 19 articles of the Images type, it was decided to expand the direction of publishing short manuscripts, but with a slightly different focus. A new section called “Images: Digital” has been launched, which aims to publish the same ultra-short articles, but not dedicated to pathology, but specifically dedicated to digital solutions in oral and maxillofacial surgery.