The ''Journal of Applied Toxicology'' is a monthly

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published since 1981 by

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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

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is Philip W. Harvey (Covance Laboratories).Editorial Board
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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

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, and the

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. The 2020

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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