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 ex ...

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, bacteria, bacterium, or plant, as well as the effect o ...

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 Academic journals established in 1981 English-language journals Monthly journals