Abstract
It is an obligation of researchers to publish results and knowledge obtained from research activities. In general, publication of research reports all over the world is more desirable than that within a country in order tomake significant results widely known. In Japan, dental research is being conducted in an excellent environmentand its quality tends to be higher than in other industrialized countries but it is not easy for Japanesepeople, who may be weak at English, to submit articles to overseas scientific journals and to be accepted forpublication. For this reason, some researchers may reluctantly submit articles to Japanese journals. The editorialcommittee of the Prosthodontic Research & Practice (PRP), the official English journal of the Japan Prosthodontic Society, follows an editorial policy of increasing the publication of articles by reviewing thework of and assisting postgraduate students and young doctors who are not used to writing or submitting articlesin English. This paper summarizes the lecture presented at the 115th scientific meeting of this Society, inwhich problems and measures concerning the submission of articles written in English were revealed in orderto encourage members to submit articles to the PRP.
