The ''Journal of Applied Toxicology'' is a monthly
peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 1981 by
John Wiley & Sons
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. It covers all aspects of
toxicology
Toxicology is a scientific discipline, overlapping with biology, chemistry, pharmacology, and medicine, that involves the study of the adverse effects of chemical substances on living organisms and the practice of diagnosing and treating e ...
and publishes reviews and research articles on mechanistic, fundamental, and applied research relating to the
toxicity
Toxicity is the degree to which a chemical substance or a particular mixture of substances can damage an organism. Toxicity can refer to the effect on a whole organism, such as an animal, bacterium, or plant, as well as the effect on a subs ...
of drugs and chemicals at the molecular, cellular, tissue, target organ, and whole body level, both ''in vivo'' (by all routes of exposure) and ''in vitro/ex vivo''.
The current
editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
is
Philip W. Harvey
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(Covance Laboratories).
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Most cited papers
The journal's three most-cited papers (>130 citations) are:
# 'Review of oximes available for treatment of nerve agent poisoning', Volume 14, Issue 5, Sep-Oct 1994, Pages: 317-331, Dawson RM
# 'Chronic effects on the respiratory-tract of hamsters, mice and rats after long-term inhalation of high-concentrations of filtered and unfiltered diesel-engine emissions', Volume 6, Issue 6, Dec 1986, Pages: 383-395, Heinrich U, Muhle H and Takenaka S, et al.
# 'Development of a reconstituted water medium and preliminary validation of the Frog Embryo Teratogenesis Assay Xenopus (FETAX)', Volume 7, Issue 4, Aug 1987, Pages: 237-244, Dawson DA and Bantle JA
Abstracting and indexing
The ''Journal of Applied Toxicology'' is abstracted and indexed in Chemical Abstracts Service
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Print periodicals
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, Scopus
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, and the Science Citation Index Expanded. The 2020 impact factor
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is 3.446. It is ranked 27th out of 87 journals in the category "Toxicology".[Institute for Scientific Information, ''Journal Citation Reports'', 2015]
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1263
Toxicology journals
Wiley (publisher) academic journals
Publications established in 1981
English-language journals
Monthly journals