Collections
Special Issues
Focused collections in the Journal of Experimental and Clinical Toxicology bring together work on one question in toxicology under the journal’s ordinary standards of review.
Proposals are welcome from researchers with relevant expertise.
Propose a Special Issue
Bring a question to the journal
Journal of Experimental and Clinical Toxicology welcomes proposals for focused collections that address important questions in experimental and clinical toxicology — a mechanism that several groups are approaching differently, an exposure that has become a public-health question, a methodological shift such as new approach methodologies, or a clinical problem where practice and evidence have moved apart.
Researchers with relevant expertise are invited to contact the editorial office with a short outline: the subject and why it is timely, the guest editors proposed and their relevant work, the kinds of contribution the collection would seek, and a realistic period for submissions.
What a proposal needs
- A subject that sits within the journal’s remit.
- Guest editors whose published work covers it.
- A description of the contributions sought.
- A workable timetable.
How collections are run
The same standards, a shared subject
Review
Manuscripts submitted to a collection are reviewed under the journal’s ordinary process. All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal’s scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review.
Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request.
Guest editors
Guest editors shape the subject and advise on reviewers. A guest editor takes no part in the assessment of their own submission, which is handled independently by a journal editor.
Publication
Articles are published as they complete review and are gathered under the collection, so no accepted article waits for the rest of the set.
Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal. A collection does not change the criteria, and decisions remain independent of fees, membership, editorial roles and paid services.
Meanwhile
Regular submissions
Regular submissions are accepted throughout the year, and a manuscript does not need a collection to find its readers. The scope statement sets out what the journal publishes.
Proposals and questions about a collection go to the editorial office, which answers directly.
Journal of Experimental and Clinical Toxicology · ISSN 2641-7669 · Published by Open Access Pub.