American Journal of Pharmacology and Toxicology

About the Journal

Aims and Scope

American Journal of Pharmacology and Toxicology is a peer-reviewed open access journal that publishes original research / review articles on drug action in all the areas of pharmacology and toxicology including in vivo and in vitro metabolism, intracellular metabolism and intracellular regulation. Articles on effects of radiations, drug composition and properties, drug-drug interactions, pharmacokinetic and in vivo imaging of drug distribution are also encouraged. AJPT is a quarterly publication available both in print and online and is an authentic source of information on Pharmacology and Toxicology.

Open Access

American Journal of Pharmacology and Toxicology is a gold open access publication which means that all published manuscripts are freely available for unlimited access.

Open access publishing provides immediate, worldwide free access to all published manuscripts. Readers can view, download, print, and redistribute any article without any financial barrier, enabling greater distribution of an article.

Once published, the article will be made free to read and reuse upon publication under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence.

The publication costs of an article are paid from an author's research budget, or by their supporting institution. These Article Processing Charges replace subscription charges covers the costs of manuscript processing, online availability, hosting and archiving. All Science Publications’ content is archived in Portico, which provides archiving services to scholarly journals.

All Science Publication’s journals adhere to the open access policy. Once our highly qualified Editorial Board has accepted the manuscript, authors will receive an invoice including the publication charges for their manuscript.

Abstracting and Indexing

All articles published in American Journal of Pharmacology and Toxicology are included in:

  • Chemical Abstracts Service
  • CNKI
  • Crossref
  • EMBASE
  • EMBiology
  • J-Gate
  • Scilit
  • Thomson Gale
  • Ulrichsweb

Journal Metrics

  • 2006 Founded in
  • 259 Published Articles
  • 3,187 Citations
  • 1,299,079 Views
  • 1,140,402 Downloads
  • 9,419 Average Views per Article
  • 12.31 Average Citations per Article
Citation metrics obtained from Crossref