Toxins: State of Journal Report, 2016

In the “Message from the Editor-in-Chief” posted on the Toxins website (see www.mdpi.com/journal/toxins/toxins-flyer.pdf), we wrote: “The editorial board and staff of Toxins are dedicated to providing a timely, peer-reviewed outlet for exciting, innovative primary research articles and concise, informative reviews from investigators in the myriad of disciplines contributing to our knowledge on toxins. We are committed to meeting the needs of the toxin research community by offering useful and timely reviews of all manuscripts submitted”. Now, on behalf of the editors-in-chief, the editorial board, and the editorial staff of Toxins, we are pleased to present the following information in support of meeting our charge and commitment to our colleagues. First, it is our pleasure to announce that the journal impact factor for 2014 is 2.938, with a five-year impact factor of 3.283. These rankings place Toxins 28th out of 87 journals covering the fields of toxicology. The growth in the number of citations from Toxins is impressive (see Figure 1). As might be expected, coincident with the increase in our impact factor, the numbers of manuscripts submitted to Toxins has also increased, from 256 in 2013 to 359 in 2014 and 463 in 2015 (see Figure 2). Over the same period, our acceptance rate has changed from 75.35% (2013) to 57.93% (2014) and 65.43% (see Figure 3). Finally, half of the papers were published within 60 days in 2015. Taken together, these numbers reflect, first, the hard work of investigators submitting their best work to the journal; second, the hard work of our editorial board members and ad hoc reviewers in providing timely and insightful reviews; and third, the expert assistance of the editorial staff to produce the high quality presentation expected of papers published in a high impact journal.