Journal History

2013 The inaugural issue was released. Toxics was published as a quarterly journal.
2016 Toxics was indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)—Web of Science, starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1).
Toxics announced the first edition of the Travel Awards.
2017 Toxics was indexed in Scopus, starting with Volume 5 (Issue 2).
Full-text archived in PubMed Central, with abstracts available through PubMed, from Vol. 3.
2018 Toxics established the following sections:
  • Toxicology and Public Health;
  • Risk Assessment and Risk Management;
  • Environmental Chemistry;
  • Ecotoxicology.
2019 Toxics received its first CiteScore of 2.84.
Toxics was indexed in Science Citation Indexed Expanded (SCIE)—Web of Science, starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1).
2020 Toxics received its first Impact Factor (3.271).
Toxics received its CiteScore of 3.7.
2021 Toxics adopted a monthly publication schedule.
Toxics received its Impact Factor (2020) of 4.146.
Toxics received its CiteScore (2020) of 4.6.
2022 Toxics received its Impact Factor (2021) of 4.472, ranked 24/94 in "Toxicology" and 105/279 in "Environmental Sciences".
Toxics published its 1,000th paper.
2023 The year 2023 marks the 10th Anniversary of Toxics.
Toxics received its Impact Factor (2022) of 4.6, ranked 15/94 (Q1) in "Toxicology" and 93/274 (Q2) in "Environmental Sciences".
2024 Toxics received its Impact Factor (2023) of 3.9, ranked 23/106 (Q1) in "Toxicology" and 120/358 (Q2) in "Environmental Sciences".
The CiteScore increased to 4.5.

Editor-in-Chief

2013–2018 Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. David Bellinger
2018–2020 Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Alistair Boxall
2021–present Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Demetrio Raldúa

Section Editor-in-Chief

2018–2020 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Kyungho Choi for the section on Toxicology and Public Health
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Paul Van den Brink for the section on Ecotoxicology
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Alistair Boxall for the section on Risk Assessment and Risk Management
Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Sally Gaw for the section on Environmental Chemistry
2020–2022 Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Soterios A. Kyrtopoulos for the section on Exposome
Section Editor-in-Chief:
Prof. Dr. Pierre Herckes for the section on Environmental Chemistry
2020–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Gunnar Toft for the section on Human Toxicology and Epidemiology
2021–2022 Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Martí Nadal for the section on Risk Assessment and Management
2021–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Demetrio Raldúa for the section on Ecotoxicology
2022–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Yankai Xia for the section on Reproductive and Developmental Toxicity
Section Editor-in-Chief: 
Prof. Dr. Youssef Sari for the section on Drugs Toxicity
Section Editor-in-Chief: 
Prof. Dr. Xiaojun Luo for the section on Emerging Contaminants
2023–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Natalia Garcia-Reyero for the section on Novel Methods in Toxicology Research
Section Editor-in-Chief: 
Prof. Dr. Mingce Long for the section on Toxicity Reduction and Environmental Remediation
Section Editor-in-Chief: 
Prof. Dr. Renjie Chen for the section on Air Pollution and Human Health
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