Announcements

It is our pleasure to welcome the following recognized researchers, who recently joined the Editorial Board of Toxics:

Prof. Dr. Dianne Jolley University of Wollongong, Australia

Dr. Brice Appenzeller Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg

Prof. Dr. Greet Schoeters University of Antwerp, Belgium

Prof. Dr. David Volz University of California, USA

Dr. Ahmed Tlili Eawag, Switzerland

Prof. Dr. B. Lawrence University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, USA

Dr. Alexei Konoplev Fukushima University, Japan

Dr. Kouji Harada Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Prof. Dr. Kurunthachalam Kannan New York University School of Medicine, USA

Dr. Farhan Khan University of Oslo, Norway

Prof. Dr. Magnus Engwall Örebro University, Sweden

Prof. Dr. Leena Nylander-French University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Prof. Dr.Yuan Cheng Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Prof. Dr. Lisa Truong Oregon State University, USA

Dr.       Gunnar Toft Aarhus University, Denmark

Prof. Dr. Hua-Yun Xiao Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Dr.Paweł Cyplik Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland

Dr.João Teixeira National Institute of Health, Portugal

Dr.Konstantinos Poulas University of Patras, Greece

Dr.Konstantinos Farsalinos University of Patras, Greece

We look forward to their contributions to the journal.

Toxics Editorial Office

At MDPI we have slightly revised the layout for articles to be published in the 2021 Volume, starting at the end of December 2020. As of today, the article templates available for download on ‘Instructions for Authors’ pages have been updated.

The most noticeable change can be found on the first page of the article, where a left-hand column has been created to include the following front matter elements: (i) the recommended citation style for the article, (ii) the publishing history, (iii) as well as the Creative Commons Attribution license used (iv) a standard note regarding affiliations. At the same time, the extra spacing on the left means the authors’ affiliations are now more clearly set apart than before. Other front matter key elements such as journal logo, article type, article title, authors, abstract and keywords remain unchanged.

The blank column on the left runs through all pages in an article; as a result, the main text is slightly more condensed, which improve reader friendliness for smaller screens. Small figures/tables are aligned on the left with standard indenture, while large figures/tables are centered and covering the full width of the page. The revised layout was applied in the article pictured below, to serve as an example:

1) Information is displayed in the left information bar.

2) In the main text, there is a blank column on the left.

3) Small tables/figures are aligned on the left, large tables/figures are centered.

We are pleased to acknowledge that many academic editors who have made an impact on MDPI journals as editorial board members, editors-in-chief, or section editors, are recognized as 2020 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate.

Highly Cited Researchers highlights the top 1% of researchers, by citations, in one or more of the 22 fields used in Clarivate Analytics Essential Science Indicators. We offer our congratulations to 279 academic editors of MDPI journals who were recognized as the most influential scholars in their fields in 2020.

The full list of 2020 Highly Cited Researchers  can be accessed on https://recognition.webofsciencegroup.com/awards/highly-cited/2020/

--- Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) is a Clarivate product.

We welcome the following recognized researchers, who recently joined the Editorial Board of Toxics:

Prof. Dr. Ad M.J. Ragas, Radboud University, the Netherlands

Dr. David C. Spink, New York State Department of Health, USA

Prof. Dr. Gary R. Fones, University of Portsmouth, UK

Prof. Dr. Guido Cavaletti, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Dr. Hyeong-Moo Shin, University of Texas, USA

Prof. Dr. James E. Klaunig, Indiana University, USA

Dr. Jennifer F. Nyland, Salisbury University, USA

Prof. Dr. Jos Kleinjans, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

Prof. Dr. Karin Sørig Hougaard, National Research Centre for the Working Environment (NRCWE), Denmark

Prof. Dr. Lars Rylander, Lund University, Sweden

Prof. Dr. Laura S. Van Winkle, University of California at Davis, USA

Dr. Luis Alberto Henríquez-Hernández, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Dr. Manuel E. Ortiz-Santaliestra, Spanish Institute for Game and Wildlife Research (IREC), Spain

Prof. Dr. Michael K. Stenstrom, University of California, USA

Dr. Panagiotis Georgiadis, Institute of Chemical Biology, Greece

Dr. Remco H.S. Westerink, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Dr. Shawn P. McElmurry, Wayne State University, USA

Dr. Valentina Carozzi, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Dr. Xavier Cousin, Université Paris-Saclay, France

Dr. Youssef Oulhote, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

We are delighted to announce the establishment of our Open Access agreement with Jisc Collections, which will allow UK institutions to benefit from access to article processing charge (APC) discounts and streamlined payment workflows.

All institutions participating in the agreement will also gain access to the MDPI online submission system where they can find full article metadata and pricing information for easy identification and additional transparency.

Eligible authors affiliated with the participating institutions are prompted to choose the corresponding Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) when they submit an article via our online submission system.

About Jisc

Jisc's vision is for the UK to be the most digitally advanced education and research nation in the world. At its heart is the super-fast national research and education network, Janet, with built-in cyber security protection.  Jisc also provides technology solutions for its members (colleges, universities and research centres) and customers (public sector bodies), helps members save time and money by negotiating sector-wide deals and provides advice and practical assistance on digital technology. Jisc is funded by the UK higher and further education and research funding bodies and member institutions.

For more information, contact helen.dobson@jisc.ac.uk.

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For any questions about this agreement, please contact the MDPI IOAP team at ioap@mdpi.com.

The editors are pleased to inform that Toxics has received a first Impact Factor of 3.271, as published in the 2019 Edition of the Journal Citation Reports® (Clarivate), released just now. Toxics ranks 32nd out of 92 (Q2) titles in the 'Toxicology', as well as 92nd out of 265 (Q2) titles in the 'Environmental Sciences' category.

Thank you to the authors, editorial board members and reviewers for their contribution in achieving this milestone for Toxics.

The updated citation metrics have been released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), published by Clarivate. The recent release of the JCR includes seventy-one MDPI titles. Out of these, 18 titles are newcomers, receiving a first Journal Impact Factor which is based on citation activity in 2019: Actuators, Agriculture, Biology, Biomedicines, Biosensors, Chemosensors, Children, Healthcare, Journal of Fungi, Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM), Land, Life, Magnetochemistry, Membranes, Pharmaceuticals, Photonics, Separations and Toxics.

• Out of the previously listed journals, a total of 72 percent boast an increased Impact Factor.
• 25 journals are ranked among the top 25% of journals in at least one of the categories they are ranked for.
• Articles published in 2019 in MDPI journals account for approximately 17 percent of of articles published in gold Open Access journals covered in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI).
  
  

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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winner of the Toxics 2020 Travel Award (800 Swiss Francs). The winner is Dr. Erin McCallum, a postdoctoral fellow at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden.

Dr. McCallum’s research focuses on the effects of municipal wastewater effluents and emerging anthropogenic pollutants, like pharmaceuticals, on freshwater organisms. Her work especially focuses on the effects of pollutants of animal behaviour, and she integrates across biological scales to include analytical chemistry, physiology, social behaviour, and interspecific interactions in her studies.

Congratulations to Dr. McCallum and thanks to all who applied.

Kind regards,
Toxics Editorial Office

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