Journal of Applied Toxicology

The Journal of Applied Toxicology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, published since 1981 by John Wiley & Sons. In six issues per year, it publishes reviews and research articles on mechanistic, fundamental and applied research relating to the toxicity of drugs and chemicals at the molecular, cellular, tissue, target organ and whole body level in vivo (by all routes of exposure) and in vitro / ex vivo.

The current Editor-in-Chief is Dr. Philip W. Harvey from Covance Laboratories UK Ltd., UK.

Impact factor and rank
The 2006 Impact Factor is 1.625. It is ranked number 46 out of 76 in the Toxicology category.

Highest cited papers

 * 1) Review: 'Review of oximes available for treatment of nerve agent poisoning', R.M. Dawson 14(5):317-331 (1994). Cited 120 times.
 * 2) Review: 'The toxicology of chromium with respect to its chemical speciation: A review', S. A. Katz, H. Salem 13(3):217-224 (1993). Cited 106 times.
 * 3) Research Article: 'A good practice guide to the administration of substances and removal of blood, including routes and volumes', K-H Diehl, R. Hull, D. Morton, R. Pfister, Y. Rabemampianina, D. Smith, J-M Vidal, C. Van De Vorstenbosch 21(1)15-23 (2001). Cited 79 times.
 * 4) Article: 'The peripubertal male rat assay as an alternative to the Hershberger castrated male rat assay for the detection of anti-androgens, oestrogens and metabolic modulators', J. Ashby, P. A. Lefevre 20(1):35-47 (2000). Cited 79 times.

Abstracting and indexing information
Journal of Molecular Recognition is indexed in the following services:


 * Chemical Abstracts Service SciFinder (American Chemical Society)
 * SCOPUS (Elsevier)
 * Web of Science (Thomson ISI)