Particle and Fibre Toxicology

Particle and Fibre Toxicology is published by BioMed Central and is in Zone 1 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Air Quality and Health Impacts, Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications and Occupational and environmental lung diseases, together about 49% of its articles. Its main subfields are Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Particle and Fibre Toxicology is a fully open access, peer-reviewed, online multi-disciplinary journal for new scientific data, hypotheses, and reviews on the toxicological effects of particles and fibres. The journal functions as a forum for scientific debate and communication among toxicologists as well as between scientists from other disciplines that produce and develop particle and fibre materials, including material sciences, biomaterials, and nanomedicine. Particle and Fibre Toxicology is a multi-disciplinary journal focused on understanding the physico-chemistry of particles, the possibilities for human exposure and biological outcomes, and regulatory issues in the workplace and general environment. In addition, there are diverse scenarios where particles may pose a toxicological threat due to new applications of old materials or introduction of new materials, which are readily welcomed by the journal. Particle and Fibre Toxicology provides a single, identifiable outlet for output from all these disciplines. Particle and Fibre Toxicology may also consider papers from the adjacent fields such as exposure sciences including dosimetry, biodistribution, and register-based epidemiological studies. Submission of experimental papers primarily dealing with omics data or single dose studies is not encouraged. Particles and fibres are toxicologically important in many scenarios, including exposure: during the manufacture or use of classical industrial products such as pigments and (vitreous) fibres; to particles from disturbing the earth's crust during mining and quarrying; from general anthropogenic sources in the environment such as PM10, cigarette smoke, biomass, and liquid fuel combustion; to nanomaterials that have been specifically engineered for special purposes, including for drug delivery and imaging. Please contact the Editor if you are in any doubt that the manuscript is in scope for Particle and Fibre Toxicology. If you wish to submit an epidemiological study, please contact us prior to submission with a submission enquiry (contact details below).

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): TOXICOLOGY

Editor-in-chief Aaron ErdelyPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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MEDLINEEmbaseCASPublisher website

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Impact

Impact factor

10.62LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

10.6Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

11.6Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

17.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

2.26LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.72LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

83LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

151OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

835OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

12.5OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

1.9%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

35LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

1,200,000Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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Other sources

Average acceptance (community reports)

Fairly hardLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to first decision

10 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 18 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

BioMed Central

Country or region

England

Language

English

Frequency

Irregular

Founded

2004

ISSN

1743-8977

Official links

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• Submission system ↗LetPub
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• 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