Toxins

Toxins is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal related to toxinology and all kinds of toxins (biotoxins) from animals, microbes and plants, and published monthly online by MDPI. The French Society of Toxinology (SFET), International Society for Mycotoxicology (ISM), Japanese Society of Mycotoxicology (JSMYCO) and European Uremic Toxins (EUTox) Work Group are affiliated with Toxins and their members receive a discount on the article processing charges.

• Open Access— free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
• High Visibility: indexed within Scopus, SCIE (Web of Science), PubMed, MEDLINE, PMC, Embase, CAPlus / SciFinder, AGRIS, and other databases.
• Journal Rank: JCR - Q2 (Toxicology) / CiteScore - Q1 (Toxicology)
• Rapid Publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 18 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 3.6 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the first half of 2026).
• Recognition of Reviewers: Reviewers whose reports are timely and of high quality receive an APC discount voucher for a future publication in an MDPI journal. Become a reviewer.
• Sections: published in 6 topical sections.