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Appointment of a new Section Editor-in-Chief for the journal “Toxics”

Posted on 28-01-2021

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Dr. Martí Nadal, researcher of the Health Risk Assessment and Food Toxicology area of TecnATox, has been appointed as new Section Editor-in-Chief of the journal Toxics, an open access journal from the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). Toxics is an international, peer-reviewed, journal, which provides an advanced forum for studies related to all aspects of the toxicity of chemicals and materials. Its CiteScore (Scopus data) is 3.7, being ranked 57/128 (Q2) in "Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis" and 64/116 (Q3) in "Toxicology". The journal, covered in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) in the Web of Science, in Scopus and in Chemical Abstracts/SciFinder, will shortly receive its firs Impact Factor by Clarivate Analytics.

Starting from February 2021, Dr. Nadal will serve as Editor-in-Chief of the Section Risk Assessment and Management. This section is focused on new findings, communications and opinions related to how to assess the risk of chemicals to the human population and/or the natural environment and approaches to managing or mitigating these risks.

Since 2013, when the first volume was published, TecnATox members have periodically publishing in Toxics. Dr. Nadal previously served as Guest Editor of the Special Issue Risk Assessment of Environmental Contaminants, together with Prof. Marta Schuhmacher.