Journal profile · TOXICOLOGY
JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES
ISSN 0388-1350 · eISSN 1880-3989 · Japanese Society of Toxicological Sciences · JAPAN · Quarterly · Founded 1976
JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.67; fully open access; APC about USD 1,000; review 4–8 weeks (community reports); community-reported acceptance: easy; 66 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES is published by Japanese Society of Toxicological Sciences 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 Legal and Regulatory Analysis, Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies and Military Technology and Strategies, together about 29.7% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of Toxicological Sciences is a peer reviewed, open access journal dedicated to advancing knowledge and publishing original and innovative articles in toxicology. The journal covers a wide range of areas and topics: the mechanisms and significance of the toxicity of substances, such as drugs, food additives, food contaminants, environmental pollutants and natural products and their safety evaluation, experimental techniques, analytical methods and clinical toxicology. The journal provides authors and readers with appropriate peer review and timely publication while maintaining its rigorous standards. However, papers on the toxicities and effects of extracts and mixtures containing unidentified compounds cannot be accepted as a general rule. The Journal of Toxicological Sciences is published by the Japanese Society of Toxicology and supported by the Japanese Society of Clinical Toxicology, and publishes six types of articles: Original Articles, Research Letters, Reviews, Minireviews, Invited Reviews, and Invited Original Articles. The journal is published monthly online and read by a large international audience of researchers, clinicians, policy makers and others interested in toxicology.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): TOXICOLOGY
Editor-in-chief Yasuyuki FujiwaraPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 4, Japan 3, Malaysia 3, South Korea 2, United Kingdom 1 (14 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Legal and Regulatory AnalysisSocial Sciences9.9%
- Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary StudiesSocial Sciences9.9%
- Military Technology and StrategiesEngineering9.9%
- Carcinogens and Genotoxicity AssessmentBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology8%
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicalsEnvironmental Science6.6%
- Animal testing and alternativesVeterinary5.1%
- Pharmacogenetics and Drug MetabolismPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics4.7%
- Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity and ProtectionPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics4.5%
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 4 |
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
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
- 1.67LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.6LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.49LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.61LetPub ·
- h-index
- 44LetPub ·
- h-index
- 73OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,289OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.06OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.6%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 88.44%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 65LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 6,094 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 47 | 47 | 9 |
| 2025 | 66 | 66 | 115 |
| 2024 | 47 | 47 | 206 |
| 2023 | 62 | 62 | 311 |
| 2022 | 56 | 56 | 337 |
| 2021 | 60 | 60 | 725 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- 4–8 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Peer review
- Double 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
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | USD 1,000 | — | — |
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)
What to prepare7 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 3
- Reference style
- Author–date
- Templates
- Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted7
- editorialThe journal uses double anonymized peer review. When a manuscript is submitted to the journal, it is assigned to the Editor-in-Chief, who performs initial scree…Length not stated
- invited original articlesInvited Reviews and Invited Original Articles The editorial board may invite researchers who are experts in their field and have achieved interesting research r…Length not stated
- invited reviewsInvited Reviews and Invited Original Articles The editorial board may invite researchers who are experts in their field and have achieved interesting research r…Length not stated
- original articlesOriginal Articles Articles that contain new findings resulting from innovative research.Length not stated
- research lettersResearch Letters Short articles containing preliminary or more limited research results supported by less data than a regular paper, but of general or special i…Length not stated
- reviewArticles that review and encompass recent important scientific discoveries. Minireviews mainly describe recent research results from the authors’ own laboratori…Length not stated
- reviewsReviews and Minireviews Articles that review and encompass recent important scientific discoveries.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints, Self-archiving, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- AI use Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools
As per the COPE position statement on Authorship and AI tools, authors must disclose and fully describe any use of generative or non-generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools (also known as large language models, or LLMs) in the Materials and Methods section. This includes, but is not limited to, using AI tools to collect or analyze data, produce or amend images or graphics used in the manuscr…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Author Contribution Statement
Authors are required to include an Author Contribution Statement that follows CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy). Each author’s contribution should be described using one or more of the 14 CRediT categories. For example (where ‘Author’ is replaced by the actual author names): Conceptualization: Author 1. Funding acquisition: Author 1. Investigation: Author 1, Author 2. Supervision: Author 1. Visu…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflict of Interest Statement
Authors are required to declare any competing financial or other conflicts of interest in relation to the work described. Please see the ‘Author competing interests and conflicts of interest’ section for detailed information. If there are no declared interests, authors should include the following statement in this section of their manuscript: “The authors declare no competing interests.”
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Availability Statement
Data falsification prohibited Model summary
Authors are encouraged to include a Data Availability Statement in manuscripts that report results from research data. Following Hrynaszkiewicz et al. (2020, http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-017), statements should include information on where the manuscript’s data can be found and (where applicable) directly link to the data. If research data are not publicly available, this should be stated in th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Ethics approval required for human/animal subjects Model summary
Authors are required to declare that they have obtained and complied with relevant ethics approvals for any studies involving human or animal subjects.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright, Open Access and Fees
Copyright and licensing On June 1, 2025 the journal will update its copyright policies and introduce open Creative Commons licensing. For manuscripts submitted from this date, authors retain copyright in their work and provide the Japanese Society of Toxicology a License to Publish their article under a Creative Commons license: CC BY 4.0 (Attribution 4.0 International). This license allows users …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Self-archiving (Green Open Access) policy
Copyright policy updated June 1, 2025; open Creative Commons license introduced. Model summary
Self-archiving, also known as Green Open Access, enables authors to deposit a copy of their manuscript in an online repository. For works published in the journal under a CC BY 4.0 license, authors (or others) can upload any or all versions of a manuscript to an institutional repository immediately after publication in the journal, as long as the conditions of the license, and other copyright requ…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
Editorial and peer review process The journal uses double anonymized peer review. When a manuscript is submitted to the journal, it is assigned to the Editor-in-Chief, who performs initial screening. Manuscripts that do not fit the journal’s scope or are not deemed suitable for publication are rejected without review. The Editor-in-Chief allocates each of the remaining manuscripts to an Associate …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Preprint posting encouraged Model summary
To support the wide dissemination of research, the journal encourages authors to post their research manuscripts on community-recognized preprint servers, either before or alongside submission to the journal. This policy applies only to the original version of a manuscript that describes primary research. Any version of a manuscript that has been revised in response to reviewers’ comments, accepte…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving Self-archiving (Green Open Access) policy
Green Open Access self-archiving allowed Model summary
Self-archiving, also known as Green Open Access, enables authors to deposit a copy of their manuscript in an online repository. For works published in the journal under a CC BY 4.0 license, authors (or others) can upload any or all versions of a manuscript to an institutional repository immediately after publication in the journal, as long as the conditions of the license, and other copyright requ…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal adheres to the ICMJE policy on Clinical Trials Registration, which recommends that all clinical trials are registered in a public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrolment as a condition of consideration for publication. Manuscripts describing clinical trials must include the registration number of the trial and the name of the trial registry.
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
- Japanese Society of Toxicological Sciences
- Country or region
- JAPAN
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1976
- ISSN
- 0388-1350
- Electronic ISSN
- 1880-3989
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES
What CAS zone is JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES 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 JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.67; CiteScore 2.6, h-index 73.
How long does peer review take at JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES?
Authors report an average review time of 4–8 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”. 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.
What are the manuscript requirements of JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Keywords: ≥ 3; Reference style: Author–date; Templates: Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES based?
Of the 14 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (4), Japan (3) and Malaysia (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES open access, and what is the APC?
JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 1,000.
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: .