Conclusion
Overall, toxicology journals have low impact factors compared to other scientific journals. As academic promotion boards increasingly use semiquantitative methods of determining academic productivity (such as the impact factor andh index of the journals in which a person has published), it could be expected that the toxicology journals in which many people in the fields of medical and clinical toxicology publish will see decreased submissions, as authors attempt to get their work published in journals with higher impact factors.
Keywords: Impact factor, h indices, citation analyses, toxicology
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