Pharmacology & Toxicology Research (ISSN 2349-4581) is a peer-reviewed Indexed Journal. It covers a broad spectrum of articles focusing on various chemically distinctive therapeutic and toxic agents. It encourages submissions from diverse fields related to Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Research, including contributions from clinical trials. This journal is committed to publishing comprehensive research articles, critical reviews, case reports, mini-reviews, and short communications exclusively within the realms of toxicology and clinical pharmacology. It encompasses various aspects of clinical pharmacology, such as pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacogenetics, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacovigilance, pharmacotherapy, therapeutic drug monitoring, drug interactions, randomized controlled clinical trials, and any other pertinent topics within the field.

Area of Publication:

The scope of the journal encompasses a wide range of topics within the field of pharmacology and toxicology, including experimental animal pharmacology and toxicology, toxicity and metabolism studies, biochemical cellular pharmacology and toxicology, ethnopharmacology, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, therapeutic drug monitoring, drug interactions, pharmacogenetics, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacovigilance, pharmacoeconomics, computational prediction of pharmacology, randomized controlled clinical trials, herb-drug interactions, herbal medicine, drug development, and rational pharmacology. The journal aims to provide a comprehensive platform for the dissemination of research findings and advancements across these diverse areas, contributing to the overall understanding and development of pharmacological and toxicological sciences.

 

Following categories of manuscripts are considered for publication

• Review Article
• Research Article
• Case Study
• Clinical Trial
• Community Case Study
• Data Report
• Opinion
• Commentary
• News & Highlights
• Mini Review
• Short Research Communication
• Letter to the Editor
• Methods & Protocols
• Book Review
• Negative Results

 

 Ethical Standards                                                                                     

Statement of Human and Animal Rights

In the research work where, human subjects or material were involved, all authors should clearly declare that entire experiment work was done as per ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (both institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 and 2008. In case of animal experiments, authors should clearly reveal that all experimental procedures were done according to institutional and national guidelines for animal care and laboratory use. 

 

Statement of Informed Consent

Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Identifying information, including patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) provides written informed consent for publication. Authors should also identify individuals who provide writing assistance and disclose the funding source for this assistance. Identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve; however, informed consent should be obtained if there is any doubt. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of patients is inadequate to ensure anonymity. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect the patient, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should guarantee that alterations do not distort scientific meaning.

 

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

Editor’s responsibilities

Editors are responsible for taking the decision to publish a submitted manuscript on the basis of quality, originality, scope and relevance. Editor and editorial staff will maintain the necessary confidentiality of the manuscript and will not use it for any other purpose. 

Reviewer’s responsibilities

Reviewers should screen the manuscript for various quality parameters and provide the relevant comments to the editors, which helps them in decision making. Reviewers must carefully check the literature citation, writing quality, experiment setup and scientific relevance of results. A special emphasis will be given on plagiarism checking of manuscript. Reviewers will also maintain the necessary confidentiality of the manuscript and will not use it for any other purpose. Conflicts of interest regarding collaboration with authors of submitted manuscript must be disclosed to the editor, and then excluded from the review process.

 Author’s responsibilities

Manuscript submitted to our journal should not be published in any other journal, and also not currently under consideration by another journal. The manuscript must be approved by all the co-authors for their scientific contents and submission for publication in the journal.

Authors should provide the details of their experimental work so that others may replicate the experiments. Authors should prepare their raw data and submit it to editors/reviewers upon request. 

 Any kind of fraud or unethical practices like Fabrication/ Falsification of Data, Plagiarism, Unacceptable Author Contribution, Citation Manipulation, Concurrent Submissions, and Redundant Publications are totally unacceptable. All authors must give a clear statement that no unethical practices are involved in this research work. All authors have a responsibility to disclose the conflicts of interests and financial support for work, if any. 

After publication of the manuscript, if any error is found in research work, the chief-editor should be immediately informed. After deep discussion with the research team, the manuscript will be corrected or even withdrawn. 

Literature source for ethical standard: 

• Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

• Graf C, Wager E, Bowman A, Fiack S, Scott-Lichter D, Robinson A. Best Practice Guidelines on Publication Ethics: a publisher's perspective. Int J Clin Pract Suppl. 2007 Jan;61(152):1-26.
• International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication. 2006. 
• American Psychological Association. Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, Section 8 ‘Research and Publication’. 

 American Chemical Society. Ethical Guidelines.