Journal profile · Toxicology
Toxicology and Industrial Health
ISSN 0748-2337 · eISSN 1477-0393 · SAGE Publications Ltd · UNITED STATES · Monthly · Founded 1985
Toxicology and Industrial Health: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.62; hybrid open access; APC about USD 4,150; review about 179 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); community-reported acceptance: about 39.09%; 40 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Toxicology and Industrial Health is published by SAGE Publications Ltd 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 Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment, Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity and Air Quality and Health Impacts, together about 32.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Toxicology & Industrial Health invites manuscripts reporting results of basic and applied toxicological research with direct application to industrial/public health. Such research includes the fields of genetic and cellular toxicology, as well as healthrisk assessment and risk assessment associated with hazardous wastes/sites and groundwater. View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Toxicology
Editor-in-chief Anthony L. KiorpesPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 5%); most named United States 13, Italy 2, Türkiye 2, Mainland China 1, Canada 1 (21 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Carcinogens and Genotoxicity AssessmentBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology13.5%
- Heavy Metal Exposure and ToxicityEnvironmental Science9.7%
- Air Quality and Health ImpactsEnvironmental Science9.1%
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicalsEnvironmental Science7.9%
- Pesticide Exposure and ToxicityAgricultural and Biological Sciences7.7%
- Toxic Organic Pollutants ImpactEnvironmental Science7%
- Environmental Toxicology and EcotoxicologyEnvironmental Science4%
- Trace Elements in HealthNursing3.8%
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 | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | 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 | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | 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 | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | 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
- 1.62LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.9LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.46LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.59LetPub ·
- h-index
- 52LetPub ·
- h-index
- 94OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,726OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.27OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 6.13%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 36LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,032 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 34 | 3 | 8 |
| 2025 | 40 | 11 | 56 |
| 2024 | 62 | 26 | 245 |
| 2023 | 67 | 20 | 314 |
| 2022 | 78 | 14 | 757 |
| 2021 | 65 | 0 | 713 |
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
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
179 dayssubmission to acceptance · community reports about 1 month
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 1 monthLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- 39.09%LetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 14.3%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 7 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 179 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 20 daysPublisher website ·
- 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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,150 / GBP 3,043 | — | — | |
| 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)
What to prepare8 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 3,000 words
- Reference style
- Harvard
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted10, with length limits
- brief announcementsBrief announcements of scientific meetings or courses of interest to readers;Length not stated
- full articleManuscripts are considered for publication with the understanding that they have not been published previously and are not under consideration by another public…main text ≤ 2,000 words
- full reviewsFull reviews on subjects of contemporary importance to the toxicology/industrial health/industrial hygiene communities;Length not stated
- original researchManuscripts are considered for publication with the understanding that they have not been published previously and are not under consideration by another public…Length not stated
- reports or proceedingsReports or proceedings (which will be published as supplements to issues of the journal at the expense of the organization that submits the proceedings);Length not stated
- reviewManuscripts are considered for publication with the understanding that they have not been published previously and are not under consideration by another public…Length not stated
- short communicationManuscripts are considered for publication with the understanding that they have not been published previously and are not under consideration by another public…Length not stated
- short communicationsShort Communications are for the publication of preliminary data or a single experiment with a limited dataset.Length not stated
- topical reviewsTopical Reviews (short, factual, focused updates on specific subjects of current interest) or preliminary study results;Length not stated
- toxicological evaluationsToxicological evaluations of industrial chemicals and publication of recommended occupational exposure limits.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship
Please view our authorship policies, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more. Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
No submission or publication fees Model summary
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures submitted in color will be published in color in the online version of the journal at no cost. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, authors will receive information regarding the costs from Sage after receipt of the accepted article Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Double anonymized peer review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Double-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
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
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Founded
- 1985
- ISSN
- 0748-2337
- Electronic ISSN
- 1477-0393
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Toxicology and Industrial Health
What CAS zone is Toxicology and Industrial Health in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Toxicology and Industrial Health is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Public, Environmental & Occupational Health / 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 Toxicology and Industrial Health?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.62; CiteScore 3.9, h-index 94.
How long does peer review take at Toxicology and Industrial Health?
The publisher reports about 179 days (submission to acceptance); authors report an average review time of about 1 month; the community-reported acceptance is “about 39.09%”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 14.3%. 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 Toxicology and Industrial Health?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 3,000 words; Reference style: Harvard; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Optional; 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 Toxicology and Industrial Health based?
Of the 21 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 5%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (13), Italy (2) and Türkiye (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Toxicology and Industrial Health?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Toxicology and Industrial Health is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is Toxicology and Industrial Health open access, and what is the APC?
Toxicology and Industrial Health is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 4,150.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .