Journal History

2011 The inaugural issue was released by PAGEPress.
2015 JoX was indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1).
JoX was indexed in PubMed—National Library of Medicine (NLM), starting with Volume 5 (Issue 1).
JoX was indexed in PubMed Central (PMC)—National Library of Medicine (NLM), starting with Volume 5 (Issue 1).
2020 JoX was published by MDPI from Volume 10, Issue 1 (2020).
JoX adopted a quarterly publication schedule.
2021 JoX established the following sections:
  • Medicinal Chemistry;
  • Therapeuthics;
  • Herbal Therapeutics;
  • Nutraceutics;
  • Emerging Issues/Novel Xenobiotics;
  • Environmental Chemistry;
  • Ecotoxicology;
  • Nanotoxicology and Nanopharmacology;
  • Biotechnological Products.
2022 JoX was indexed in Scopus—Elsevier.
2023 JoX received its first CiteScore (2022) of 4.6.
JoX received its first Impact Factor (6.0).
-Herbal Therapeutics was renamed as Natural Products/Herbal Medicines.
-Therapeuthics was merged with Medicinal Chemistry to create a new section Drug Therapeutics.
-Emerging Issues/Novel Xenobiotics was merged with Environmental Chemistry to create a new section Emerging Chemicals.
-Biotechnological Products
 was renamed as Enzyme Systems, Microorganisms and Biotechnological Products.

Editor-in-Chief

2011–present Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. François Gagné

Section Editor-in-Chief

2023–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Labrou for the section on Biotechnological Products
Section Editor-in-Chief:
Dr. Valerio Matozzo for the section on Ecotoxicology
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