About this journal

Aims and scope

Clinical Toxicology is a subscription-based journal that publishes peer-reviewed scientific research and clinical advances in clinical toxicology. The journal reflects the professional concerns and best scientific judgment of its sponsors, the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology, the European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists, America's Poison Centres and the  Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology and, as such, is the leading international journal in the specialty.

Clinical Toxicology aims to be the journal of primary interest to practicing clinical toxicologists, whether in hospitals, poison centres, academia, government or industry. The journal is relevant to all professionals at the interface of clinical toxicology with acute care, occupational and environmental medicine, public health, regulatory toxicology, pharmacology and pharmaceutics, and analytical and forensic pathology.

The journal welcomes for consideration the following article types: Clinical Research, Basic Research, Poison Centre Research, Methods, Reviews, Toxicological History, Images, Letters to the Editor: Original Scientific Contributions, Letters, and Commentaries. All articles received by the Journal will be subject to double-anonymous peer review.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 506K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 3.0 (2023) Impact Factor
  • Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
  • 3.1 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 5.7 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 1.294 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.956 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 4 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 18 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
  • 26 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
  • 27% acceptance rate

Editorial board

CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
Professor Robert S. Hoffman
 – NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, NY, USA
Professor Allister Vale – City Hospital and University of Birmingham, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK

DEPUTY EDITORS
Professor Nicholas Buckley
– University of Sydney, RPA Hospital and NSW Poisons Information Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Professor Donna Seger – Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
Professor Simon Thomas – Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, UK

REVIEWS EDITOR
Professor Michael Mullins
– Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA

ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Dr Betty Chan – School of Clinical Medicine at University of New South Wales and Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Professor Thomas Y. K. Chan – Centre for Food and Drug Safety, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Professor Kirk Cumpston – Virginia Commonwealth University Health System and Virginia Poison Center, Richmond, VA, USA
Dr Ronald I. Kirschner – University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USA
Professor Bruno Mégarbane – Paris Cité University, Lariboisière Hospital (APHP) and INSERM UMRS-1144, Paris, Île-de-France, France
Decision Editor Conflict of Interest Statements are available here.

STATISTICS EDITOR
Dr Darsy Darssan
– The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QL, Australia

SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR
Professor David Juurlink – University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Dr Joshua Trebach – University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; Iowa Poison Control Center, Sioux City, IA, USA

SENIOR EDITORIAL BOARD
Professor Paul I. Dargan – Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London, London, Greater London, UK
Professor Dylan de Lange – Dutch Poisons Information Center, University Medical Center, Utrecht, Netherlands
Professor Michael Eddleston – University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration (SACTRC), Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Professor Michael G. Holland – SUNY Upstate Medical University and Upstate New York Poison Center, Syracuse, NY; Saratoga Hospital Employee Health Director; Saratoga Springs, NY; Glens Falls Hospital Employee Health Director, Glens Falls, NY, USA
Professor Christopher Holstege – University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Professor Geoff Isbister – University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
Dr Hugo Kupferschmidt – Former Director of Tox Info Suisse, Zürich, Switzerland; Former Head of the Poisons Centre at Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Dr James B. Mowry – Indiana Poison Center and Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Dr Darren Roberts – Edith Collins Centre at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and New South Wales Poisons Information Centre, Children’s Hospital Westmead, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Dr Jay L. Schauben – Florida Poison Information Center and University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Dr Karen Simone – Northern New England Poison Center at Maine Health, Portland, ME; Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA
Professor Horst Thiermann – Bundweswehr Institute of Pharmcology and Toxicology, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

EDITORIAL BOARD
Dr Mohamed Fahim – University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka; National Poison Centre, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia (Fellow-in-Training)
Dr Niko Amend – Bundeswehr Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Walther-Straub-Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Munich, Bavaria, Germany (Fellow-in-Training)
Dr Kevin Baumgartner – Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
Professor (Emeritus) Yedidia Bentur - Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Dr Sean M. Bryant – Cook County Health, Toxikon Consortium and Illinois Poison Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Dr Rose Cairns – The University of Sydney and New South Wales Poisons Information Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Dr Angela L. Chiew – Prince of Wales Hospital, NSW Poisons Information Centre and UNSW Medicine, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Professor Florian Eyer – Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Professor Robert G. Hendrickson – Oregon Poison Center and Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Dr Ana Ferrer-Dufol – Clinic University Hospital and Medical School. Zaragoza University; Zaragoza, Spain
Dr Christopher O. Hoyte (Coordinator, Fellow in Training Program) – Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Safety, Denver Health and Hospital Authority, and Department of Emergency Medicine at University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
Dr Davide Lonati – Pavia Poison Control Centre and Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, Pavia, Lombardy, Italy
Dr HoanVu Nguyen – University of California, Sacramento, CA,, USA (Fellow-in-Training)
Dr Robert Palmer – Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Service and University of Colorado, Denver, CO; Toxicology Associates, PLLC, Littleton, CO, USA
Professor Elizabeth J. Scharman – West Virginia University School of Pharmacy and WV Poison Center, Charleston, WV, USA
Professor Anjana Silva – Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura, North Central Province, Sri Lanka
Dr Brandon J. Warrick – University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Professor Saralyn R. Williams – Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
Dr Bryan Wilson – Arizona Poison & Drug Information Center, Tucson, AZ, USA
Professor Chen-Chang Yang – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei,  Northern Taiwan, Taiwan
Professor Sergey Zakharov – Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital, Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic

EDITORS IN CHIEF EMERITI
Steven Seifert - 2017–2022
E. Martin Caravati - 2012-2016
Nicholas Bateman - 2009–2011
Michael McGuigan - 2002–2009
Carol Angle - 1989–2002
Helmut Redetzki - 1981–1989
Richard Rappolt - 1968–1981

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