About this journal

Nanotoxicology publishes peer-reviewed research relating to the hazards, exposure, and risks associated with nano-structured materials during their life cycle.

The journal primarily covers research on any material with at least one dimension in the nanometer size range (1-100nm). This includes nanoparticles, nanomaterials (including high aspect ratio nanomaterials (HARN) and fibres), nanomedicines, nano-surfaces of larger materials, nanocomposites, and advanced materials. Such materials may be used in a range of consumer products (e.g. paints, cosmetics, electronics, textiles, packaging), generated for intentional delivery into the body (e.g. food, medicines, diagnostics, medical devices), or designed for environmental applications (such as remediation of contaminated sites). We will consider research on different sources (e.g. natural, anthropogenic, engineered) of all of these materials, as well as studies which focus on assessment of the hazards, exposure and risks of air pollution particles (e.g. PM ₁₀, PM _2.5), micro and nanoplastics, and occupational dusts. Articles which focus on single or agglomerated/aggregated particles can be submitted to the journal. We will also publish papers on studies related to solid phase materials, aerosols or colloids if humans are potentially exposed or if they might be released into the environment.

We are particularly interested in studies which have assessed the hazards of nanomaterials to human health and the environment using in chemico, in silico, in vitro, and in vivo models as well as epidemiological studies and encourage the submission of articles which have investigated the mechanism(s) of toxicity.

Studies that support understanding of environmental and human exposure and risk assessment are within the scope of the journal. Furthermore, articles which focus on legislation and regulation are strongly welcomed.

Research articles relevant to the area of nanomedicine will be considered but there must be a strong safety or toxicology component. More specifically, the manuscript should not be focussed solely on investigating clinical effectiveness of the nanomedicine but must present toxicology data from a relevant model and assess the toxicity using appropriate endpoints (e.g. viability assays to assess cytotoxicity in vitro alone is not sufficient).

It is essential that the physicochemical properties of ‘as produced/supplied’ materials as well as dispersions of the materials in relevant biological media are well characterized. We encourage the use of standard or reference materials such as those supplied from the US National Institute of Standards or those selected by the OECD Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials. We do not publish papers on nanomaterials produced by new principles of synthesis if toxicological effects are not analysed in parallel with well established reference or benchmark materials.

The journal welcomes original basic and clinical research articles, review articles including meta-analyses, short communications, study protocols, case reports, clinical practice papers, letters to the Editor, inaugural lectures, conference abstracts and book reviews.

If you have suggestions for special issues of Nanotoxicology then please contact the editors.

Nanotoxicology operates a single-anonymized peer review policy. Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.

Editor in Chief:

Prof. Håkan Wallin - National Institute of Occupational Health (STAMI), Oslo, Norway

Deputy Editor:

Prof. Helinor Johnston - Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Associate Editors:

Prof. Anders Baun - Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Prof. Wan-Seob Cho - Dong-A University, Busan, South Korea
Dr. Alison Elder - University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Prof. Peter Hoet - Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Dr. Dana Kühnel - Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
Prof. Willie Peijnenburg - Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
Dr. Tobias Stöger - Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany
Prof. Vicki Stone - Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Dr. Mark Wiesner - Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Prof. Tian Xia - University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA

Editorial Board:

Prof. Marc Benedetti - Université Denis Diderot, Paris, France
Dr. Pratim Biswas - Washington University in St Louis, MO, USA
Dr. James Bonner - North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Dr. Flemming Cassee - National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands
Prof. Chunying Chen - National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, China
Dr. Fanqing Fran Chen - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA
Dr. Alok Dhawan - CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research Vishvigyan Bhawan, Lucknow. Uttar Pradesh, India
Prof. Greg Goss - University of Alberta, Canada
Prof. Andrij Holian - University of Montana, Missoula, USA
Dr Saber Hussain, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, USA
Dr. Wim de Jong – RVIM, Netherlands
Dr. Wolfgang Kreyling - Institute for Inhalation Biology, Germany
Prof. Steffen Loft - University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Prof. Lutz Mädler - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Dr. Andrew Maynard - School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
Dr. Nancy Monteiro-Riviere - Kansas State University and North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Dr. Yasuo Morimoto - University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
Dr. Timothy Nurkiewicz - West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
Prof. Günter Oberdörster - University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Dr. Galya Orr - Pacific Northwest Laboratory, WA, USA
Prof. Wolfgang J. Parak - University of Hamburg, Germany
Dr. Jessica Ponti – Joint Research Centre, Italy
Dr. Michael Riediker - Swiss Centre for ccupational and Environmental Health (SCOEH), Winterthur, Switzerland
Dr. Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser - Université de Fribourg, Marly, Switzerland
Dr. Enrico Sabbioni - University of Chieti, Italy
Dr. Christie Sayes - Baylor University, Waco, 76798 TX, USA
Dr. Lang Tran - Institute of Occupational Medicine, perivale, Middlesex, UK
Dr. Peter Wick - Empa, St Gallen, Switzerland