Abstract
Toxicology Research and Application (TOR) is an international peer-reviewed, open access journal publishing short communications, reviews, and original research in toxicology with an emphasis on safety and risk assessment of all types of chemicals. Public concern regarding chemicals present in food, consumer products, the work place, and the environment is at an all-time high. TOR provides a unique forum for the dissemination of high quality content applicable to researchers, clinicians, allied health practitioners, patients, and scientists regarding issues not only of public interest but of concern within the scientific community, including conflicting reports regarding carcinogens in food and drinking water, or chemicals present in medicines, household products, and the environment that may cause birth defects or other untoward effects in the human population. A basic and essential, but often forgotten, principle of science is reproducibility—a discovery is valid only if the same experiment under the same conditions obtains the same results in any laboratory. Reproducibility, along with transparency, is an important issue for peer-reviewed scientific journals and TOR is resolved to champion both by assuring that sufficient methodological details are available, so studies published in TOR can be reproduced, while at the same time allowing sufficient transparency in the review process to maintain quality, reproducible, and useful publications. Results-oriented, collaborative approaches are important aspects that will be considered important for papers submitted to TOR, and as the title of the TOR suggests, both basic and applied research manuscripts are encouraged, including papers presenting negative results.
As with any new endeavor, success will only come by paying our dues daily, which means good quality submissions, a dedicated editorial board, and challenging but supportive reviews. As the Editor-in-Chief, I look forward to your submissions and we, the Editorial Board, promise timely and fair reviews of all papers submitted to TOR.