Journal profile · Toxicology
Inhalation Toxicology
ISSN 0895-8378 · eISSN 1091-7691 · Informa Healthcare · UNITED STATES · Monthly · Founded 1989
Inhalation Toxicology: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.12; hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 132 days to acceptance (81 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: fairly easy; 43 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Inhalation Toxicology is published by Informa Healthcare and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Air Quality and Health Impacts, Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery and Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment, together about 40.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Inhalation Toxicology is a peer-reviewed publication providing a key forum for the latest accomplishments and advancements in concepts, approaches, and procedures presently being used to evaluate the health risk associated with airborne chemicals. The journal publishes original research, reviews, methods and data notes involving the respiratory system’s functions in health and disease, the pathogenesis and mechanism of injury, the extrapolation of animal data to humans, the effects of inhaled substances on extra-pulmonary systems, as well as reliable and innovative models for predicting human disease. Inhalation Toxicology operates a single-anonymized peer review policy. Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Toxicology
Editor-in-chief Andrij HolianPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 5 (5 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Air Quality and Health ImpactsEnvironmental Science25.1%
- Inhalation and Respiratory Drug DeliveryMedicine8.9%
- Carcinogens and Genotoxicity AssessmentBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6.9%
- Occupational and environmental lung diseasesMedicine6.2%
- Climate Change and Health ImpactsEnvironmental Science6%
- Air Quality Monitoring and ForecastingEnvironmental Science5.4%
- Occupational exposure and asthmaMedicine5.2%
- Indoor Air Quality and Microbial ExposureEnvironmental Science5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Toxicology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Toxicology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Toxicology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEPubMedEmbaseCASCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: Academic Search Complete, BIOBASE, Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive, Chemical Hazards in Industry, Chemical Safety Newsbase, Consumer Health Complete, EMBIOLOGY, HINARI, Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, Laboratory Hazards Bulletin, PASCAL, Pollution Abstracts, SciSearch, SIIC, Toxicology Abstracts, CABI Global Health, Abstracts on Hygiene and Communicable Diseases, AgBiotech News and Information, AgBiotechNet, Agricultural Economics Database, Agricultural Engineering Abstracts, Agroforestry Abstracts, Animal Production Database, Animal Science Database
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 2.12LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 4.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.57LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.57Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.77LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 0.77Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 77LetPub ·
- h-index
- 113OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,881OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.21OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 20.39%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 42LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 109,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,087 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 36 | 13 | 7 |
| 2025 | 43 | 19 | 78 |
| 2024 | 38 | 16 | 174 |
| 2023 | 27 | 16 | 150 |
| 2022 | 39 | 22 | 433 |
| 2021 | 29 | 11 | 318 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
132 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 100 days – 194 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 15 days (81 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 150 days
- Sample
- 81 articles with submission and acceptance dates (82 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- 6–12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- Fairly easyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 31%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 14 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 61 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 16 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted6
- data notesThe journal publishes original research, reviews, methods and data notesLength not stated
- methodsThe journal publishes original research, reviews, methods and data notesLength not stated
- original researchThe journal publishes original research, reviews, methods and data notesLength not stated
- research articleRole of PTCH1 receptor polymorphisms in the SHH signalling pathway as determinants of COPD severity and functional impairment Nidhi Mahajan et al. Research Arti…Length not stated
- reviewThe journal publishes original research, reviews, methods and data notesLength not stated
- review articleInhaled aerosol dosimetry update Robert F. Phalen et al. Review Article | Published online: 5 Aug 2026Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Gold open access option Model summary
Inhalation Toxicology is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverability and r…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Single-anonymized peer review Model summary
Inhalation Toxicology operates a single-anonymized peer review policy.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Informa Healthcare
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Founded
- 1989
- ISSN
- 0895-8378
- Electronic ISSN
- 1091-7691
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 38, Issue 8 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Inhalation Toxicology
What CAS zone is Inhalation Toxicology in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Inhalation Toxicology is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Toxicology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Inhalation Toxicology?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.12; CiteScore 4.1, h-index 113.
How long does peer review take at Inhalation Toxicology?
Based on the dates recorded on 81 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 132 days (interquartile range 100–194 days); authors report an average review time of 6–12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 31%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of Inhalation Toxicology based?
Of the 5 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Inhalation Toxicology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Inhalation Toxicology is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, PubMed, Embase, CAS and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Inhalation Toxicology open access, and what is the APC?
Inhalation Toxicology is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .