Journal profile · TOXICOLOGY
Journal of Xenobiotics
ISSN 2039-4705 · eISSN 2039-4713 · MDPI AG · Switzerland
Journal of Xenobiotics: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 4.6 (journal website); JCR Q1 (journal website); fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 39 days to acceptance (121 articles, last 24 months); 210 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Xenobiotics is published by MDPI AG and is in Zone 3 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, together about 28.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Pollution. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
AimsThe Journal of Xenobiotics (ISSN 2039-4713) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal. Our aim is to provide an advanced forum for studies related to all aspects of xenobiotics. The journal publishes reviews, regular research papers, and short communications as well as Special Issues on particular subjects. In addition, manuscripts regarding new and innovative research proposals and ideas are particularly welcome.The aim of the Journal of Xenobiotics is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is, therefore, no restriction on the maximum length of the papers, although authors should write their papers in a clear and concise way. The full experimental details should be provided so that the results can be reproduced. Electronic files or software regarding the full details of calculations and experimental procedure can be submitted as supplementary material, if it is not possible to publish them along with the text.Scope Xenobiotics: any chemicals of foreign (unnatural) composition or concentration. For example, caffeine is natural but found at unusually high concentrations in unexpected environments (river water contaminated by wastewater). Many pharmaceuticals are synthesized compounds not usually found in nature (carbamazepine, fluoxetine, etc.). Products derived from nanotechnology or microelectronics are another example. Xenobiotic toxins Xenobiotic pharmacology Environmental xenobiotics Endocrine disruptors Oxidative stress Antibiotics Biomarkers Nanoparticles Microplastics Pesticides Herbicides MDPI Publication Ethics Statement MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.Book ReviewsAuthors and publishers are encouraged to send review copies of their recent related books to the following address. Received books will be listed as Books Received within the journal's N
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): TOXICOLOGY
Editor-in-chief Aquatic ContaminantPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 7%); most named Italy 6, United States 4, France 4, Portugal 4, Mainland China 2 (30 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicalsEnvironmental Science10.8%
- Environmental Toxicology and EcotoxicologyEnvironmental Science10%
- Toxic Organic Pollutants ImpactEnvironmental Science7.6%
- Microplastics and Plastic PollutionEnvironmental Science7.4%
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental ImpactsEnvironmental Science7.2%
- Heavy metals in environmentEnvironmental Science5.7%
- Heavy Metal Exposure and ToxicityEnvironmental Science5.5%
- Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental StudiesEnvironmental Science5.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Toxicology | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Toxicology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q1 · Toxicology
- CiteScore Q2 · Pollution
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of SciencePMCPubMedEmbaseCASPublisher website
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 (publisher) 2025
- 4.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 5.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 5.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.08LetPub ·
- h-index
- 38OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 176OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 6.42OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 212LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 694 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 182 | 182 | 129 |
| 2025 | 210 | 210 | 1,786 |
| 2024 | 111 | 111 | 1,313 |
| 2023 | 51 | 51 | 991 |
| 2022 | 28 | 28 | 751 |
| 2021 | 15 | 15 | 1,233 |
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 PubMed · to
39 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 31 days – 48 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 4 days (121 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 44 days
- Sample
- 121 articles with submission and acceptance dates (420 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)
- about 10 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 14.9 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 3.7 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 6 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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 accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | CHF 1,600 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | CHF 1,600 | — | — | |
| LetPub | CHF 1,600 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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)
Open calls for papers8, by deadline
- The Silent Crisis: Air Pollution and Its Hidden Impact on Human HealthDeadline
- Dietary Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals and Emerging Contaminants: Insights from Biomonitoring and MetabolomicsDeadline
- Xenobiotics in Aquatic Ecosystems: Fate, Toxicity, and Sustainable RemediationDeadline
- The Role of Microplastics and Nanoplastics in MedicineDeadline
- Toxicokinetic Models and Biomonitoring for PFAS Risk AssessmentDeadline
- Xenobiotics and Kidney Health: Emerging Challenges in Toxicology and TherapeuticsDeadline
- Beyond PM 2.5 and Ozone: Health Impacts of Emerging and Unregulated Air PollutantsDeadline
- Analytical and Forensic Toxicology of Psychoactive Substances and Drugs of Abuse: Detection, Interpretation, and Emerging TrendsDeadline
What to prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 200 words
- Suggested reviewers
- Required, 3
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted19
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Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- Authorship Authorship
MDPI follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines which state that, in order to qualify for authorship of a manuscript, the following criteria should be observed: Make substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; Draft the work or review it critically for important intel…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflicts of Interest
Citation policy: cite sources clearly, obtain permission where appropriate, avoid excessive self-citation, do not copy references unread, do not preferentially cite own or peers' work, do not cite advertisements; follow COPE guidance on quotation and citation manipulation. Model summary
According to The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, “Authors should avoid entering into agreements with study sponsors, both for-profit and non-profit, that interfere with authors’ access to all of the study’s data or that interfere with their ability to analyze and interpret the data and to prepare and publish manuscripts independently when and where they choose.” All authors mus…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability statements
Data policy: encourage sharing of research data (protocols, methods, raw/processed data, code, software, algorithms, study material); data should be FAIR; deposit in trusted repositories; clarify availability in Data Availability Statement; restrictions allowed for ethical/legal/privacy/confidential Model summary
Data availability statements are required for all articles published with MDPI. During the peer review and editorial decision process, authors can be asked to share existing datasets or raw data that have been analyzed in the manuscript, and whether they will be made available to other researchers following publication. Authors will also be asked for the details of any existing datasets that have …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication Ethics Statement
MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We fully adhere to its Code of Conduct and to its Best Practice Guidelines. The editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification,…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright / Open Access
Articles published in JoX will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text: © 2026 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and condit…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publication fees
If you transfer your manuscript to another open access (OA) journal, you will be charged an Article Processing Charge (APC) if your article is accepted for publication. The APC for each journal can be found on the individual journal’s website. For more information about APCs, please see here.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Editorial Process and Peer Review
All submissions are thoroughly peer-reviewed by experts within the field and undergo a structured editorial workflow designed to ensure quality, transparency, and scientific integrity. The full editorial procedure is available on the Editorial Process page and is also provided below. Pre-check Pre-check consists of a technical pre-check performed by the Editorial Office and an editorial pre-check …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints and Conference Papers
JoX accepts submissions that have previously been made available as preprints provided that they have not undergone peer review. A preprint is a draft version of a paper made available online before submission to a journal. MDPI operates Preprints, a preprint server to which submitted papers can be uploaded directly after completing journal submission. Note that Preprints operates independently of…
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
- MDPI AG
- Country or region
- Switzerland
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2039-4705
- Electronic ISSN
- 2039-4713
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 16 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Xenobiotics
What CAS zone is Journal of Xenobiotics in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Xenobiotics is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Toxicology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Xenobiotics?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 4.6 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 5.1, h-index 38.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Xenobiotics?
Based on the dates recorded on 121 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 39 days (interquartile range 31–48 days); authors report an average review time of about 10 weeks. 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 JCR quartile is Journal of Xenobiotics in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q1; by category, Toxicology Q1. JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 3 of Medicine.
What are the manuscript requirements of Journal of Xenobiotics?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 200 words; Suggested reviewers: Required, 3; Graphical abstract: 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 Xenobiotics based?
Of the 30 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 2 (about 7%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Italy (6), United States (4) and France (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Xenobiotics?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Xenobiotics is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, PMC, PubMed, Embase and CAS; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Journal of Xenobiotics open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Xenobiotics is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .