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Toxicology
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Toxicology

0300-483X

Published by: Elsevier

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/toxicology

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Chemistry 443 55 68 18
Medicine 1381 57 66 18

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 267
Documents by Best Scientists*: 285
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 182
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.106
Impact Factor: 4.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Toxicology?

The journal investigates studies in Internal medicine, Endocrinology, Biochemistry, Toxicity and Pharmacology. Toxicology focuses on different Internal medicine studies like Kidney and Oral administration. Nephrotoxicity is a primary topic of Kidney research in the journal.

It facilitates discussions on Endocrinology that incorporate concepts from other fields like Offspring, Receptor and Fetus. The journal dives deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Biochemistry and Molecular biology. It explores research in Apoptosis and overlapping concepts in Cell biology to expand the discourse in Molecular biology.

The presented Toxicity research focuses mostly on In vivo and, on occasion, topics in In vitro. The Immunology study tackling the subject of Immune system is the focus of it. Research on Oxidative stress addressed in the journal frequently intersections with the field of Reactive oxygen species.

  • Internal medicine (31.20%)
  • Endocrinology (30.38%)
  • Biochemistry (23.66%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Advances in metal-induced oxidative stress and human disease (1829 citations)
  • Copper toxicity, oxidative stress, and antioxidant nutrients. (1323 citations)
  • Toxicity, metabolism, and impact of mycotoxins on humans and animals. (1248 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Toxicology:

The journal articles aim to foster the development of research in Biochemistry, Internal medicine, Endocrinology, Toxicity and Oxidative stress. Most of the Biochemistry studies addressed in the published articles also intersect with Pharmacology. The featured Toxicity studies in the published articles mainly concentrate on In vivo but also cover areas of interest in In vitro.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Internal medicine
  • Enzyme
  • Gene

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Toxicology mostly deals with topics like Pharmacology, Oxidative stress, Internal medicine, Endocrinology and Cell biology. The journal explores topics in Pharmacology which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Inflammation, Metabolite, Toxicity, Cytotoxicity and In vivo. While it focused on Oxidative stress, it was also able to explore topics like Cancer research, DNA damage, Reactive oxygen species, Glutathione and Downregulation and upregulation.

The study on Internal medicine featured in the journal expounds on the topic of Proinflammatory cytokine in particular. While Endocrinology is the focus of Toxicology, it also provided insights into the studies of Offspring, Neurotoxicity and Fibrosis. Some problems in Cell biology that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Autophagy, Apoptosis and Programmed cell death.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • A 3D microfluidic liver model for high throughput compound toxicity screening in the OrganoPlate (12 citations)
  • Polystyrene microplastics cause granulosa cells apoptosis and fibrosis in ovary through oxidative stress in rats. (10 citations)
  • NLRP3 inflammasome mediated pyroptosis is involved in cadmium exposure-induced neuroinflammation through the IL-1β/IkB-α-NF-κB-NLRP3 feedback loop in swine. (8 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Toxicology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Ian Kimber (60 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Gary O. Rankin (44 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Rebecca J. Dearman (36 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • José L. Domingo (33 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Horst Thiermann (32 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Toxicology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • United States Environmental Protection Agency (199 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
  • Research Triangle Park (162 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • National Institutes of Health (153 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Surrey (99 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Karolinska Institutet (97 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 4.13% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 6.03% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 4.31% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 11.64% of all publications and 78.02% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Resveratrol protected acrolein-induced ferroptosis and insulin secretion dysfunction via ER-stress- related PERK pathway in MIN6 cells

    (2021)
    73 Citations
  • Polystyrene nanoplastics dysregulate lipid metabolism in murine macrophages in vitro.

    Ida Florance;Seenivasan Ramasubbu;Amitava Mukherjee;Natarajan Chandrasekaran

    (2021)
    63 Citations
  • Why is elevation of serum cholesterol associated with exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in humans? A workshop report on potential mechanisms

    Melvin E. Andersen;Bruno Hagenbuch;Udayan Apte;J. Christopher Corton

    (2021)
    59 Citations
  • Safer chemicals using less animals: kick-off of the European ONTOX project.

    Mathieu Vinken;Emilio Benfenati;François Busquet;José Castell

    (2021)
    58 Citations
  • Perfluorooctane sulfonate alters gut microbiota-host metabolic homeostasis in mice.

    Limin Zhang;Bipin Rimal;Robert G. Nichols;Yuan Tian

    (2020)
    55 Citations
  • The way forward for assessing the human health safety of cosmetics in the EU - Workshop proceedings

    Vera Rogiers;Emilio Benfenati;Ulrike Bernauer;Laurent Bodin

    (2020)
    54 Citations
  • Toxicity, gut microbiota and metabolome effects after copper exposure during early life in SD rats

    Juan Dai;Xiao Yang;Ya Yuan;Youzhen Jia

    (2020)
    51 Citations
  • Multiple neurological effects associated with exposure to organophosphorus pesticides in man.

    (2022)
    50 Citations
  • Inhibition of ferroptosis reduces susceptibility to frequent excessive alcohol consumption-induced atrial fibrillation

    (2021)
    45 Citations
  • Liver toxicity of macrolide antibiotics in zebrafish.

    (2020)
    42 Citations

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