Toxins

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · Switzerland · Est. 1961

ISSN2072-6651eISSN2072-6651

SJR Q2✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.931

H-Indexi

158

SNIPi

1.243

Total Worksi

7,948

Total Citationsi

224,948

2yr Mean Citednessi

3.35

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Toxicology; Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

General Information

Country / RegionSwitzerland

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1961

FrequencyAnnual

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications7,948

Publisher OrgMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

OA Since2008

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewSingle-blind

OA LicenseCC BY

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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9/11 · 82%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2072-6651 / 2072-6651

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ, PubMed

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Peer review process documented?

Single-blind

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

748

30k

2019

814

26k

2020

915

24k

2021

903

17k

2022

691

9.4k

2023

546

4.1k

2024

612

2.4k

2025

348

178

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Health, Toxicology and MutagenesisQ2

ToxicologyQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Toxicology

Scopus Categories

ToxicologyHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Frequently asked questions about Toxins

Is Toxins a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Toxins: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Toxins?

Toxins is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 3.35.

Is Toxins indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Toxins is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Toxins?