The Journal of Applied Toxicology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 published since 1981 by John Wiley & Sons

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. It covers all aspects of toxicology

Toxicology

Toxicology is a branch of biology, chemistry, and medicine concerned with the study of the adverse effects of chemicals on living organisms...

 and publishes reviews and research articles on mechanistic, fundamental, and applied research relating to the toxicity

Toxicity

Toxicity is the degree to which a substance can damage a living or non-living organisms. Toxicity can refer to the effect on a whole organism, such as an animal, bacterium, or plant, as well as the effect on a substructure of the organism, such as a cell or an organ , such as the liver...

 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 is Philip W. Harvey (Covance Laboratories).

Impact factor and rank

The 2009 impact factor

Impact factor

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 is 2.073. It is ranked 43rd out of 77 journals in the category "Toxicology".

Most cited papers

The journal's three most-cited papers (>130 citations) are:

1. 'Review of oximes available for treatment of nerve agent poisoning', Volume 14, Issue 5, Sep-Oct 1994, Pages: 317-331, Dawson RM
2. '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.
3. '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 SciFinder

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, Scopus

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, and the Web of Science

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