Journal profile · ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES-TOXICOLOGY
TOXICOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
ISSN 0277-2248 · eISSN 1029-0486 · Taylor and Francis Ltd. · ENGLAND
TOXICOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY: CAS Zone 4 · Environmental Science & Ecology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.21; subscription journal; APC charged, amount not published; median 223 days to acceptance (94 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 22% (journal website); 91 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
TOXICOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. and is in Zone 4 of Environmental Science & Ecology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Heavy metals in environment, Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, together about 28.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry is devoted to the general chemistry, environmental behaviour and fate, toxicology, and ecotoxicology of xenobiotics and natural toxins. The journal is interdisciplinary in outlook, and manuscripts published in it cover all relevant areas: inorganic chemistry – trace elements in food and the environment, metal complexes and chelates organic chemistry – environmental fate, chemical reactions, metabolites and secondary products, synthesis of standards and labelled materials physical chemistry – photochemistry, radiochemistry environmental chemistry – sources, fate, and sinks of xenochemicals, environmental partitioning and transport, degradation and deposition analytical chemistry – development and optimisation of analytical methods, instrumental and methodological advances, miniaturisation and automation biological chemistry – pharmacology and toxicology, uptake, metabolism, disposition of xenochemicals, structure-activity relationships, modes of action, ecotoxicological testing The xenochemicals considered are organic and inorganic air, water and soil pollutants, industrial chemicals, pesticides, food additives or trace contaminants, drugs, natural toxins, radioactive materials, genetoxic compounds, persistent and/or bioaccumulative pollutants and their occurrence at eco/toxicologically relevant levels and/or doses (POP’s, PBT‘s). Note: While we encourage submissions of manuscripts covering (eco)toxicological or pharmacological studies, they must involve an aspect of chemistry as described above. Review Papers: Good, authoritative reviews on any of the aforementioned subjects from experts in universities, governments, or industry are welcome, and such manuscripts will receive priority consideration.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES-TOXICOLOGY
Editor-in-chief Markus BrinkmannPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Heavy metals in environmentEnvironmental Science9.8%
- Environmental Toxicology and EcotoxicologyEnvironmental Science9.6%
- Toxic Organic Pollutants ImpactEnvironmental Science9%
- Heavy Metal Exposure and ToxicityEnvironmental Science5.9%
- Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental StudiesEnvironmental Science5.5%
- Carcinogens and Genotoxicity AssessmentBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4.5%
- Mercury impact and mitigation studiesEnvironmental Science4.1%
- Analytical chemistry methods developmentChemistry4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Environmental Science & Ecology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Environmental Science & Ecology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Toxicology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Environmental Science & Ecology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Environmental Science & Ecology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Toxicology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Environmental Science & Ecology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Environmental Science & Ecology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | 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
CASCAB AbstractsPublisher website
Other: AGRICOLA, BioEngineering Abstracts (Online), CABI AgBiotechNet, Abstracts on Hygiene and Communicable Diseases, Agricultural Engineering Abstracts, Agroforestry Abstracts (Online), Animal Breeding Abstracts, Animal Science Database, Biocontrol News and Information, Biofuels Abstracts, Botanical Pesticides Abstracts, Crop Physiology Abstracts, Crop Science Database, Dairy Science Abstracts, Environmental Impact, Field Crop Abstracts, Forest Products Abstracts, Forest Science Database, Forestry Abstracts, Global Health, Grasslands and Forage Abstracts (Online), Horticultural Science Database, Irrigation and Drainage Abstracts (Online), Maize Abstracts (Online), Nutrition and Food Sciences Database, Organic Research Database, Ornamental Horticulture (Online), Parasitology Database, Plant Breeding Abstracts (Online), Plant Genetics and Breeding 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
- 1.21LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.2Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 1.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.24LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.24Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.39LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 0.39Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 33LetPub ·
- h-index
- 67OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,321OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.91OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 25%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 1.75%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 86LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 47,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 4,153 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 9 | 3 | 4 |
| 2025 | 91 | 4 | 176 |
| 2024 | 11 | 0 | 32 |
| 2023 | 18 | 2 | 78 |
| 2022 | 15 | 0 | 59 |
| 2021 | 34 | 6 | 304 |
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
223 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 173 days – 316 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 14 days (94 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 235 days
- Sample
- 94 articles with submission and acceptance dates (108 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
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 22%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 23 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 149 daysPublisher 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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access
- Open access Open access
Hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Model summary
Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry 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 dis…
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
- Taylor and Francis Ltd.
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0277-2248
- Electronic ISSN
- 1029-0486
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 108, Issue 3 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about TOXICOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
What CAS zone is TOXICOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, TOXICOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY is in Zone 4 of Environmental Science & Ecology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Environmental Sciences / Toxicology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Environmental Science & Ecology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of TOXICOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.21; CiteScore 1.7, h-index 67.
How long does peer review take at TOXICOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY?
Based on the dates recorded on 94 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 223 days (interquartile range 173–316 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 22%. 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.
Which databases index TOXICOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, TOXICOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists CAS and CAB Abstracts; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is TOXICOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY open access, and what is the APC?
TOXICOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY is a subscription journal. 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: .