Journal History
| 2013 | The inaugural issue was released. Toxics was published as a quarterly journal. |
| 2016 | Toxics was indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)—Web of Science, starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1). Toxics announced the first edition of the Travel Awards. |
| 2017 | Toxics was indexed in Scopus, starting with Volume 5 (Issue 2). Full-text archived in PubMed Central, with abstracts available through PubMed, from Vol. 3. |
| 2018 | Toxics established the following sections:
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| 2019 | Toxics received its first CiteScore of 2.84. Toxics was indexed in Science Citation Indexed Expanded (SCIE)—Web of Science, starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1). |
| 2020 | Toxics received its first Impact Factor (3.271). Toxics received its CiteScore of 3.7. |
| 2021 | Toxics adopted a monthly publication schedule. Toxics received its Impact Factor (2020) of 4.146. Toxics received its CiteScore (2020) of 4.6. |
| 2022 | Toxics received its Impact Factor (2021) of 4.472, ranked 24/94 in "Toxicology" and 105/279 in "Environmental Sciences". Toxics published its 1,000th paper. |
| 2023 | The year 2023 marked the 10th Anniversary of Toxics. Toxics received its Impact Factor (2022) of 4.6, ranked 15/94 (Q1) in "Toxicology" and 93/274 (Q2) in "Environmental Sciences". |
| 2024 | Toxics received its Impact Factor (2023) of 3.9, ranked 23/106 (Q1) in "Toxicology" and 120/358 (Q2) in "Environmental Sciences". The CiteScore increased to 4.5. |
| 2025 | Environmental Criteria and Standards was discontinued. Hormesis in Toxicology was discontinued. Toxics received its 2024 Impact Factor (4.1), ranked 23/106 (Q1) in “Toxicology” and ranked 127/374 (Q2) in “Environmental Sciences”; Toxics received its CiteScore (2024) of 6.4, ranked 5/18 (Q1) in “Chemical Health and Safety”, ranked 50/148 (Q2) in “Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis” and 43/131 (Q2) in “Toxicology”. |
Editor-in-Chief
| 2013–2018 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. David Bellinger |
| 2018–2020 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Alistair Boxall |
| 2021–present | Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Demetrio Raldúa |
Section Editor-in-Chief
| 2018–2020 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Kyungho Choi for the section on Toxicology and Public Health Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Paul Van den Brink for the section on Ecotoxicology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Alistair Boxall for the section on Risk Assessment and Risk Management Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Sally Gaw for the section on Environmental Chemistry |
| 2020–2022 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Soterios A. Kyrtopoulos for the section on Exposome Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Pierre Herckes for the section on Environmental Chemistry |
| 2020–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Gunnar Toft for the section on Human Toxicology and Epidemiology |
| 2021–2022 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Martí Nadal for the section on Risk Assessment and Management |
| 2021–2024 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Demetrio Raldúa for the section on Ecotoxicology |
| 2022–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Yankai Xia for the section on Reproductive and Developmental Toxicity Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Youssef Sari for the section on Drugs Toxicity Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Xiaojun Luo for the section on Emerging Contaminants |
| 2023–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Natalia Garcia-Reyero for the section on Novel Methods in Toxicology Research Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Mingce Long for the section on Toxicity Reduction and Environmental Remediation Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Renjie Chen for the section on Air Pollution and Human Health |
| 2024–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Carlos Barata for the section on Ecotoxicology |
