World Mycotoxin Journal
Journal Impact Factor™
The World Mycotoxin Journal has a Journal Impact Factor™ of 2,2 and the 5 year Journal Impact Factor™ is 2,1. Source: Journal Citation Reports™ from Clarivate, 2025.
CiteScore™
The journal's CiteScore™ is 4.7 (CiteScore™ 2022. Calculated by Scopus, 2023).
Aims and scope
The World Mycotoxin Journal is a peer-reviewed scientific journal with only one specific area of focus: the promotion of the science of mycotoxins. The journal contains original research papers and critical reviews in all areas dealing with mycotoxins and its impact to human and animal health, together with opinions, a calendar of forthcoming mycotoxin-related events and book reviews. The journal takes a multidisciplinary approach, and it focuses on a broad spectrum of issues, including human and animal toxicology, risk assessment, worldwide occurrence, modelling and prediction of toxin formation, genomics, molecular biology for control of mycotoxigenic fungi, pre-and post-harvest prevention and control, analytical methodology and sampling, analytical methodology and quality assurance, food technology, economics and regulatory issues. The World Mycotoxin Journal is intended to serve the needs of researchers and professionals from the scientific community and industry, as well as of policy makers and regulators.
Topics dealt by the World Mycotoxin Journal are:
- Human and animal nutrition and health effects, including cases of mycotoxicosis
- Latest discoveries in mycotoxin toxicology and toxicokinetics
- Trends in modelling and prediction of mycotoxin formation
- The latest information on major mycotoxins and emerging problems in the food and feed chain
- Strategies for pre- and postharvest prevention and control
- International developments and regulatory issues
- The economic impact of mycotoxins
- Application of genomics in mycotoxin research
- Molecular biology for control of mycotoxigenic fungi
- Decontamination and detoxification solutions
- New developments in mycotoxin sampling analysis and analytical quality assurance, including reference materials
- Worldwide cases of occurrence and exposure to mycotoxins (papers dealing with locally purchased commodities are usually not published)
Editorial statement
Mycotoxin-caused diseases (mycotoxicoses) have been recognised for a long time. History is replete with evidence of mycotoxin-associated poisoning incidents, such as ergot-induced 'Holy fire' in the Middle Ages and trichothecene-caused 'Alimentary Toxic Aleukia' in Russia in World War II. Despite these examples, mycotoxicoses remained 'neglected diseases', until 1960 when 'Turkey X disease' broke out in Great Britain. More than 100,000 turkeys died due to aflatoxins in the feed. In the following period much information has become known about aflatoxins and many other mould-produced toxins have been discovered. Multidisciplinary in-depth research targeted on developing knowledge about many aspects of mycotoxins, have resulted in tens of thousands of publications, several dozens of relevant books and dedicated workshops and conferences. It has become evident that probably no edible substance can be regarded as absolutely free from possible mycotoxin contamination, considering that mycotoxin production can occur in the field, during harvest, processing, storage and shipment of a given commodity. It has become clear that mycotoxins have profound effects on human and animal health, as well as on food security.
The contents of the World Mycotoxin Journal witnesses the continuous and intensive interest of the scientific community for the multi-faceted subject area of mycotoxins, and of the many activities that take place, e.g. those undertaken by international organisations and within thematic interlaboratory research and networking projects. The journal aims to bring together those active in various disciplines and to offer a platform for the publication of scientific work on mycotoxins, and for the discussion and debate of its contents. It has the ambition of strengthening the networks of mycotoxin experts and of contributing significantly to the combat of these silent threats to human and animal health. The World Mycotoxin Journal has the ambition to be the most up-to-date international journal for those who need to be informed of the latest and most important developments in the field.
The World Mycotoxin Journal has a Journal Impact Factor™ of 2,2 and the 5 year Journal Impact Factor™ is 2,1. Source: Journal Citation Reports™ from Clarivate, 2025.
CiteScore™
The journal's CiteScore™ is 4.7 (CiteScore™ 2022. Calculated by Scopus, 2023).
Aims and scope
The World Mycotoxin Journal is a peer-reviewed scientific journal with only one specific area of focus: the promotion of the science of mycotoxins. The journal contains original research papers and critical reviews in all areas dealing with mycotoxins and its impact to human and animal health, together with opinions, a calendar of forthcoming mycotoxin-related events and book reviews. The journal takes a multidisciplinary approach, and it focuses on a broad spectrum of issues, including human and animal toxicology, risk assessment, worldwide occurrence, modelling and prediction of toxin formation, genomics, molecular biology for control of mycotoxigenic fungi, pre-and post-harvest prevention and control, analytical methodology and sampling, analytical methodology and quality assurance, food technology, economics and regulatory issues. The World Mycotoxin Journal is intended to serve the needs of researchers and professionals from the scientific community and industry, as well as of policy makers and regulators.
Topics dealt by the World Mycotoxin Journal are:
- Human and animal nutrition and health effects, including cases of mycotoxicosis
- Latest discoveries in mycotoxin toxicology and toxicokinetics
- Trends in modelling and prediction of mycotoxin formation
- The latest information on major mycotoxins and emerging problems in the food and feed chain
- Strategies for pre- and postharvest prevention and control
- International developments and regulatory issues
- The economic impact of mycotoxins
- Application of genomics in mycotoxin research
- Molecular biology for control of mycotoxigenic fungi
- Decontamination and detoxification solutions
- New developments in mycotoxin sampling analysis and analytical quality assurance, including reference materials
- Worldwide cases of occurrence and exposure to mycotoxins (papers dealing with locally purchased commodities are usually not published)
Editorial statement
Mycotoxin-caused diseases (mycotoxicoses) have been recognised for a long time. History is replete with evidence of mycotoxin-associated poisoning incidents, such as ergot-induced 'Holy fire' in the Middle Ages and trichothecene-caused 'Alimentary Toxic Aleukia' in Russia in World War II. Despite these examples, mycotoxicoses remained 'neglected diseases', until 1960 when 'Turkey X disease' broke out in Great Britain. More than 100,000 turkeys died due to aflatoxins in the feed. In the following period much information has become known about aflatoxins and many other mould-produced toxins have been discovered. Multidisciplinary in-depth research targeted on developing knowledge about many aspects of mycotoxins, have resulted in tens of thousands of publications, several dozens of relevant books and dedicated workshops and conferences. It has become evident that probably no edible substance can be regarded as absolutely free from possible mycotoxin contamination, considering that mycotoxin production can occur in the field, during harvest, processing, storage and shipment of a given commodity. It has become clear that mycotoxins have profound effects on human and animal health, as well as on food security.
The contents of the World Mycotoxin Journal witnesses the continuous and intensive interest of the scientific community for the multi-faceted subject area of mycotoxins, and of the many activities that take place, e.g. those undertaken by international organisations and within thematic interlaboratory research and networking projects. The journal aims to bring together those active in various disciplines and to offer a platform for the publication of scientific work on mycotoxins, and for the discussion and debate of its contents. It has the ambition of strengthening the networks of mycotoxin experts and of contributing significantly to the combat of these silent threats to human and animal health. The World Mycotoxin Journal has the ambition to be the most up-to-date international journal for those who need to be informed of the latest and most important developments in the field.
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Editor-in-Chief
Franz Berthiller, Biomarker Module of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovate Gut Health Concepts of Livestock, BOKU, Austria (ORCID 0000-0001-5883-2879)
Section Editors
Paola Battilani (post-harvest), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Institute of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Italy (ORCID 0000-0003-1287-1711)
Marthe De Boevre (human health, social media), MYTOX-SOUTH, Ghent University, Belgium (ORCID 0000-0002-6151-5126)
Chiara Dall’Asta (social media), University of Parma, Food and Drug Department, Italy (ORCID 0000-0003-0716-8394)
Ine van der Fels-Klerx (economy, regulatory issues), Wageningen Food Safety Research, the Netherlands (ORCID 0000-0002-7801-394X)
Isabelle P. Oswald (toxicology), INRA, Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology, France (ORCID 0000-0001-9918-277X)
Michele Solfrizzo (analysis), Institute of Sciences of Food Production, Italy (ORCID 0000-0002-5698-4921)
Michele Suman (industrial challenges and solutions), Barilla G.R. F.lli SpA, Section Science, Technology & Quality, Italy (ORCID 0000-0003-0719-6627)
Felicia Wu (economy, regulatory issues), Michigan State University, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, USA (ORCID 0000-0003-0493-0451)
Hao Zhang (pre-harvest), Institute of Plant Protection, CAAS, China P.R. (ORCID 0000-0002-9030-722X)
Editors
Paula Alvito, National Institute of Health, Food and Nutrition Department, Portugal (ORCID 0000-0001-8396-1357)
Imourana Alassane-Kpembi, Université de Montréal, Faculté de Médecine vétérinaire, Canada (ORCID 0000-0003-0718-2655)
Lei Bao, Nestle Food Safety Institute, China Section, China P.R.
Catherine Bessy, FAO, Food Safety and Codex Unit, Italy
Sofia N. Chulze, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Argentina (ORCID 0000-0002-8818-1103)
Sarah De Saeger, Ghent University, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Belgium (ORCID 0000-0002-2160-7253)
Chibundu Ezekiel, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria (ORCID 0000-0002-2113-2948)
Yun Yun Gong, University of Leeds, School of Food Science and Nutrition, UK (ORCID 0000-0003-4927-5526)
Tetsuhisa Goto, Shinshu University, Retired, Japan (ORCID 0000-0002-7315-3070)
Belinda Janse-van Rensburg, ARC-Grain Crops, South Africa (ORCID 0000-0002-5458-2187)
Martin E. Kimanya, The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Tanzania (ORCID 0000-0002-8320-2841)
Robert Kosicki, Kazimierz Wielki University, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Poland (ORCID 0000-0002-7338-6341)
Rudolf Krska, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria (ORCID 0000-0001-6843-9755)
Peiwu Li, Key Lab of Detection & Control for Mycotoxins, Ministry of Agriculture, China P.R.
Carlos A. Mallmann, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brasil (ORCID 0000-0003-2376-2705)
Chris Maragos, USDA-ARS-NCAUR, USA (ORCID 0000-0002-6473-5693)
Limbikani Matumba, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR), Malawi (ORCID 0000-0001-9152-2450)
Gerardo Morantes, Buhler Group, Food Safety-North America, USA
Robert (Bob) Proctor, USDA ARS NCAUR, USA (ORCID 0000-0001-5400-1680)
Michael Rychlik, Technical University München, Germany (ORCID 0000-0002-5826-6288)
Hamide Z. Senyuva, Food Life International Ltd., Turkiye (ORCID 0000-0003-2146-4640)
Milena Stránská-Zachariasova, University of Chemistry and Technology, Czech Republic (ORCID 0000-0002-2958-1529)
Sheryl Tittlemier, Canada Grain Commission, Canada (ORCID 0000-0002-0426-5909)
Olga R. Torres, Laboratorio Diagnóstico Molecular, Guatemala City, Guatemala (ORCID 0000-0002-0069-6904)
Anne van Diepeningen, Plant Research International, the Netherlands (ORCID 0000-0002-6373-8382)
Hans van Egmond, retired from RIKILT Wageningen UR, the Netherlands
Elisabeth Varga, University of Veterinary Medicine, Austria (ORCID 0000-0001-6046-3259)
Carol Verheecke-Vaessen, Cranfield University, UK (ORCID 0000-0003-3470-9803)
Frans Verstraete, European Commission, Belgium
Armando Venâncio, Universidade do Minho, Portugal (ORCID 0000-0002-0723-6134)
Thomas B. Whitaker, US Department of Agriculture, USA
Yueju Zhao, Mars Global Food Safety Center, (ORCID 0000-0001-7083-5984)
Founding Editor
Daniel Barug, Bastiaanse Communication, the Netherlands
Franz Berthiller, Biomarker Module of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovate Gut Health Concepts of Livestock, BOKU, Austria (ORCID 0000-0001-5883-2879)
Section Editors
Paola Battilani (post-harvest), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Institute of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Italy (ORCID 0000-0003-1287-1711)
Marthe De Boevre (human health, social media), MYTOX-SOUTH, Ghent University, Belgium (ORCID 0000-0002-6151-5126)
Chiara Dall’Asta (social media), University of Parma, Food and Drug Department, Italy (ORCID 0000-0003-0716-8394)
Ine van der Fels-Klerx (economy, regulatory issues), Wageningen Food Safety Research, the Netherlands (ORCID 0000-0002-7801-394X)
Isabelle P. Oswald (toxicology), INRA, Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology, France (ORCID 0000-0001-9918-277X)
Michele Solfrizzo (analysis), Institute of Sciences of Food Production, Italy (ORCID 0000-0002-5698-4921)
Michele Suman (industrial challenges and solutions), Barilla G.R. F.lli SpA, Section Science, Technology & Quality, Italy (ORCID 0000-0003-0719-6627)
Felicia Wu (economy, regulatory issues), Michigan State University, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, USA (ORCID 0000-0003-0493-0451)
Hao Zhang (pre-harvest), Institute of Plant Protection, CAAS, China P.R. (ORCID 0000-0002-9030-722X)
Editors
Paula Alvito, National Institute of Health, Food and Nutrition Department, Portugal (ORCID 0000-0001-8396-1357)
Imourana Alassane-Kpembi, Université de Montréal, Faculté de Médecine vétérinaire, Canada (ORCID 0000-0003-0718-2655)
Lei Bao, Nestle Food Safety Institute, China Section, China P.R.
Catherine Bessy, FAO, Food Safety and Codex Unit, Italy
Sofia N. Chulze, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Argentina (ORCID 0000-0002-8818-1103)
Sarah De Saeger, Ghent University, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Belgium (ORCID 0000-0002-2160-7253)
Chibundu Ezekiel, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria (ORCID 0000-0002-2113-2948)
Yun Yun Gong, University of Leeds, School of Food Science and Nutrition, UK (ORCID 0000-0003-4927-5526)
Tetsuhisa Goto, Shinshu University, Retired, Japan (ORCID 0000-0002-7315-3070)
Belinda Janse-van Rensburg, ARC-Grain Crops, South Africa (ORCID 0000-0002-5458-2187)
Martin E. Kimanya, The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Tanzania (ORCID 0000-0002-8320-2841)
Robert Kosicki, Kazimierz Wielki University, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Poland (ORCID 0000-0002-7338-6341)
Rudolf Krska, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria (ORCID 0000-0001-6843-9755)
Peiwu Li, Key Lab of Detection & Control for Mycotoxins, Ministry of Agriculture, China P.R.
Carlos A. Mallmann, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brasil (ORCID 0000-0003-2376-2705)
Chris Maragos, USDA-ARS-NCAUR, USA (ORCID 0000-0002-6473-5693)
Limbikani Matumba, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR), Malawi (ORCID 0000-0001-9152-2450)
Gerardo Morantes, Buhler Group, Food Safety-North America, USA
Robert (Bob) Proctor, USDA ARS NCAUR, USA (ORCID 0000-0001-5400-1680)
Michael Rychlik, Technical University München, Germany (ORCID 0000-0002-5826-6288)
Hamide Z. Senyuva, Food Life International Ltd., Turkiye (ORCID 0000-0003-2146-4640)
Milena Stránská-Zachariasova, University of Chemistry and Technology, Czech Republic (ORCID 0000-0002-2958-1529)
Sheryl Tittlemier, Canada Grain Commission, Canada (ORCID 0000-0002-0426-5909)
Olga R. Torres, Laboratorio Diagnóstico Molecular, Guatemala City, Guatemala (ORCID 0000-0002-0069-6904)
Anne van Diepeningen, Plant Research International, the Netherlands (ORCID 0000-0002-6373-8382)
Hans van Egmond, retired from RIKILT Wageningen UR, the Netherlands
Elisabeth Varga, University of Veterinary Medicine, Austria (ORCID 0000-0001-6046-3259)
Carol Verheecke-Vaessen, Cranfield University, UK (ORCID 0000-0003-3470-9803)
Frans Verstraete, European Commission, Belgium
Armando Venâncio, Universidade do Minho, Portugal (ORCID 0000-0002-0723-6134)
Thomas B. Whitaker, US Department of Agriculture, USA
Yueju Zhao, Mars Global Food Safety Center, (ORCID 0000-0001-7083-5984)
Founding Editor
Daniel Barug, Bastiaanse Communication, the Netherlands
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Contributions to the World Mycotoxin Journal must be original (research) and will be subject to single-anonymous peer review by at least two external, independent reviewers. Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The publication must be approved by all authors and tacitly by the institute where the work was carried out. Final decision on all manuscripts is handled by the Editor-in-Chief.
World Mycotoxin Journal (WMJ) is a hybrid journal with no processing fees for authors. Optional Open Access (under the CC-BY 4.0, CC-BY-NC, or CC-BY-ND license):
• Authors who are willing to publish their work open access, please find more details here, in case of any problems, please contact: openaccess@brill.com.
• Members of the International Society for Mycotoxigcology are entitled to a discounted APC: €1900 (excl. VAT).
• Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Toxikologie (ASTOX) are entiled to discounted APC: €1900 (excl. VAT).
• WMJ offers specific terms and publication charges for articles that are part of a Special Collection.
• Brill's Transformative Agreement: when the article's corresponding author is from an eligible university APC will be waived.
• EIFL Agreement: Brill has an agreement with EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) to enable access to digital information for people in developing and transition countries. The agreement includes discounted access to Brill journals and Open Access publishing opportunities for eligible authors. Authors from 37 EIFL partner countries may be eligible for a discount or waiver to publish in the journal.
For detailed formatting and style guidelines, please refer to our Instructions for Authors.
Authors who believe their manuscript would benefit from professional editing are encouraged to use a here before submission.
Guidelines for reviewers can be found here.
Contributions to the World Mycotoxin Journal must be original (research) and will be subject to single-anonymous peer review by at least two external, independent reviewers. Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The publication must be approved by all authors and tacitly by the institute where the work was carried out. Final decision on all manuscripts is handled by the Editor-in-Chief.
World Mycotoxin Journal (WMJ) is a hybrid journal with no processing fees for authors. Optional Open Access (under the CC-BY 4.0, CC-BY-NC, or CC-BY-ND license):
• Authors who are willing to publish their work open access, please find more details here, in case of any problems, please contact: openaccess@brill.com.
• Members of the International Society for Mycotoxigcology are entitled to a discounted APC: €1900 (excl. VAT).
• Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Toxikologie (ASTOX) are entiled to discounted APC: €1900 (excl. VAT).
• WMJ offers specific terms and publication charges for articles that are part of a Special Collection.
• Brill's Transformative Agreement: when the article's corresponding author is from an eligible university APC will be waived.
• EIFL Agreement: Brill has an agreement with EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) to enable access to digital information for people in developing and transition countries. The agreement includes discounted access to Brill journals and Open Access publishing opportunities for eligible authors. Authors from 37 EIFL partner countries may be eligible for a discount or waiver to publish in the journal.
The World Mycotoxin agenda lists conferences, symposia, workshops, courses and other interesting mycotoxicological events over the world. Events are open to (international) attendance and have at least one session dedicated to mycotoxins.
| 2026 | |
|---|---|
| 1 - 3 June | The 47th Mycotoxin Workshop, Berlin, Germany |
| 2-5 August | 4th African Symposium on Mycotoxicology: MYCOAFRICA: Advancing Mycotoxin Management ensuring Food Security and Safety for One Health, Windhoek, Namibia |
Affiliated and endorsing organisations
World Mycotoxin Journal affiliated with the ISM - International Society for Mycotoxicology and Astox - the Austrian society of Toxicology. The journal is endorsed by the ICC - International Association for Cereal Science and Technology.
Media partners
When your organisation is interested to be a Media Partner to this journal please contact the editorial office.
World Mycotoxin Journal is a Media Partner to WMF meets Salzburg. The conference will be held April 7-9, 2025, Salzburg, Austria.
World Mycotoxin Journal is a Media Partner to the 3rd African Symposium on Mycotoxicology (ASM) joint MYTOX-SOUTH Conference in Stellenbosch, South Africa, September 4-7 2022.
World Mycotoxin Journal is a Media Partner to the WMFmeetsASIA – the 12th Conference of The World Mycotoxin Forum® in Bangkok, Thailand, 13-15 January 2020.
World Mycotoxin Journal is partner to the Nordic-Baltic Fusarium Seminar to be held on April 3-4, 2019 in Esbjerg, Denmark.
World Mycotoxin Journal is a Media Partner to the World Mycotoxin Forum in Belfast, Ireland, 14-16 October 2019.
Submit your manuscript online via Editorial Manager.
For detailed formatting and style guidelines, please refer to our Instructions for Authors.
Authors who believe their manuscript would benefit from professional editing are encouraged to use a here before submission.
Guidelines for reviewers can be found here.
Contributions to the World Mycotoxin Journal must be original (research) and will be subject to single-anonymous peer review by at least two external, independent reviewers. Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The publication must be approved by all authors and tacitly by the institute where the work was carried out. Final decision on all manuscripts is handled by the Editor-in-Chief.
World Mycotoxin Journal (WMJ) is a hybrid journal with no processing fees for authors. Optional Open Access (under the CC-BY 4.0, CC-BY-NC, or CC-BY-ND license):
• Authors who are willing to publish their work open access, please find more details here, in case of any problems, please contact: openaccess@brill.com.
• Members of the International Society for Mycotoxigcology are entitled to a discounted APC: €1900 (excl. VAT).
• Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Toxikologie (ASTOX) are entiled to discounted APC: €1900 (excl. VAT).
• WMJ offers specific terms and publication charges for articles that are part of a Special Collection.
• Brill's Transformative Agreement: when the article's corresponding author is from an eligible university APC will be waived.
• EIFL Agreement: Brill has an agreement with EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) to enable access to digital information for people in developing and transition countries. The agreement includes discounted access to Brill journals and Open Access publishing opportunities for eligible authors. Authors from 37 EIFL partner countries may be eligible for a discount or waiver to publish in the journal.
For detailed formatting and style guidelines, please refer to our Instructions for Authors.
Authors who believe their manuscript would benefit from professional editing are encouraged to use a here before submission.
Guidelines for reviewers can be found here.
Contributions to the World Mycotoxin Journal must be original (research) and will be subject to single-anonymous peer review by at least two external, independent reviewers. Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The publication must be approved by all authors and tacitly by the institute where the work was carried out. Final decision on all manuscripts is handled by the Editor-in-Chief.
World Mycotoxin Journal (WMJ) is a hybrid journal with no processing fees for authors. Optional Open Access (under the CC-BY 4.0, CC-BY-NC, or CC-BY-ND license):
• Authors who are willing to publish their work open access, please find more details here, in case of any problems, please contact: openaccess@brill.com.
• Members of the International Society for Mycotoxigcology are entitled to a discounted APC: €1900 (excl. VAT).
• Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Toxikologie (ASTOX) are entiled to discounted APC: €1900 (excl. VAT).
• WMJ offers specific terms and publication charges for articles that are part of a Special Collection.
• Brill's Transformative Agreement: when the article's corresponding author is from an eligible university APC will be waived.
• EIFL Agreement: Brill has an agreement with EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) to enable access to digital information for people in developing and transition countries. The agreement includes discounted access to Brill journals and Open Access publishing opportunities for eligible authors. Authors from 37 EIFL partner countries may be eligible for a discount or waiver to publish in the journal.
Editor-in-Chief
Franz Berthiller, Biomarker Module of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovate Gut Health Concepts of Livestock, BOKU, Austria (ORCID 0000-0001-5883-2879)
Section Editors
Paola Battilani (post-harvest), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Institute of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Italy (ORCID 0000-0003-1287-1711)
Marthe De Boevre (human health, social media), MYTOX-SOUTH, Ghent University, Belgium (ORCID 0000-0002-6151-5126)
Chiara Dall’Asta (social media), University of Parma, Food and Drug Department, Italy (ORCID 0000-0003-0716-8394)
Ine van der Fels-Klerx (economy, regulatory issues), Wageningen Food Safety Research, the Netherlands (ORCID 0000-0002-7801-394X)
Isabelle P. Oswald (toxicology), INRA, Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology, France (ORCID 0000-0001-9918-277X)
Michele Solfrizzo (analysis), Institute of Sciences of Food Production, Italy (ORCID 0000-0002-5698-4921)
Michele Suman (industrial challenges and solutions), Barilla G.R. F.lli SpA, Section Science, Technology & Quality, Italy (ORCID 0000-0003-0719-6627)
Felicia Wu (economy, regulatory issues), Michigan State University, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, USA (ORCID 0000-0003-0493-0451)
Hao Zhang (pre-harvest), Institute of Plant Protection, CAAS, China P.R. (ORCID 0000-0002-9030-722X)
Editors
Paula Alvito, National Institute of Health, Food and Nutrition Department, Portugal (ORCID 0000-0001-8396-1357)
Imourana Alassane-Kpembi, Université de Montréal, Faculté de Médecine vétérinaire, Canada (ORCID 0000-0003-0718-2655)
Lei Bao, Nestle Food Safety Institute, China Section, China P.R.
Catherine Bessy, FAO, Food Safety and Codex Unit, Italy
Sofia N. Chulze, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Argentina (ORCID 0000-0002-8818-1103)
Sarah De Saeger, Ghent University, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Belgium (ORCID 0000-0002-2160-7253)
Chibundu Ezekiel, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria (ORCID 0000-0002-2113-2948)
Yun Yun Gong, University of Leeds, School of Food Science and Nutrition, UK (ORCID 0000-0003-4927-5526)
Tetsuhisa Goto, Shinshu University, Retired, Japan (ORCID 0000-0002-7315-3070)
Belinda Janse-van Rensburg, ARC-Grain Crops, South Africa (ORCID 0000-0002-5458-2187)
Martin E. Kimanya, The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Tanzania (ORCID 0000-0002-8320-2841)
Robert Kosicki, Kazimierz Wielki University, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Poland (ORCID 0000-0002-7338-6341)
Rudolf Krska, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria (ORCID 0000-0001-6843-9755)
Peiwu Li, Key Lab of Detection & Control for Mycotoxins, Ministry of Agriculture, China P.R.
Carlos A. Mallmann, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brasil (ORCID 0000-0003-2376-2705)
Chris Maragos, USDA-ARS-NCAUR, USA (ORCID 0000-0002-6473-5693)
Limbikani Matumba, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR), Malawi (ORCID 0000-0001-9152-2450)
Gerardo Morantes, Buhler Group, Food Safety-North America, USA
Robert (Bob) Proctor, USDA ARS NCAUR, USA (ORCID 0000-0001-5400-1680)
Michael Rychlik, Technical University München, Germany (ORCID 0000-0002-5826-6288)
Hamide Z. Senyuva, Food Life International Ltd., Turkiye (ORCID 0000-0003-2146-4640)
Milena Stránská-Zachariasova, University of Chemistry and Technology, Czech Republic (ORCID 0000-0002-2958-1529)
Sheryl Tittlemier, Canada Grain Commission, Canada (ORCID 0000-0002-0426-5909)
Olga R. Torres, Laboratorio Diagnóstico Molecular, Guatemala City, Guatemala (ORCID 0000-0002-0069-6904)
Anne van Diepeningen, Plant Research International, the Netherlands (ORCID 0000-0002-6373-8382)
Hans van Egmond, retired from RIKILT Wageningen UR, the Netherlands
Elisabeth Varga, University of Veterinary Medicine, Austria (ORCID 0000-0001-6046-3259)
Carol Verheecke-Vaessen, Cranfield University, UK (ORCID 0000-0003-3470-9803)
Frans Verstraete, European Commission, Belgium
Armando Venâncio, Universidade do Minho, Portugal (ORCID 0000-0002-0723-6134)
Thomas B. Whitaker, US Department of Agriculture, USA
Yueju Zhao, Mars Global Food Safety Center, (ORCID 0000-0001-7083-5984)
Founding Editor
Daniel Barug, Bastiaanse Communication, the Netherlands
Franz Berthiller, Biomarker Module of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovate Gut Health Concepts of Livestock, BOKU, Austria (ORCID 0000-0001-5883-2879)
Section Editors
Paola Battilani (post-harvest), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Institute of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Italy (ORCID 0000-0003-1287-1711)
Marthe De Boevre (human health, social media), MYTOX-SOUTH, Ghent University, Belgium (ORCID 0000-0002-6151-5126)
Chiara Dall’Asta (social media), University of Parma, Food and Drug Department, Italy (ORCID 0000-0003-0716-8394)
Ine van der Fels-Klerx (economy, regulatory issues), Wageningen Food Safety Research, the Netherlands (ORCID 0000-0002-7801-394X)
Isabelle P. Oswald (toxicology), INRA, Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology, France (ORCID 0000-0001-9918-277X)
Michele Solfrizzo (analysis), Institute of Sciences of Food Production, Italy (ORCID 0000-0002-5698-4921)
Michele Suman (industrial challenges and solutions), Barilla G.R. F.lli SpA, Section Science, Technology & Quality, Italy (ORCID 0000-0003-0719-6627)
Felicia Wu (economy, regulatory issues), Michigan State University, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, USA (ORCID 0000-0003-0493-0451)
Hao Zhang (pre-harvest), Institute of Plant Protection, CAAS, China P.R. (ORCID 0000-0002-9030-722X)
Editors
Paula Alvito, National Institute of Health, Food and Nutrition Department, Portugal (ORCID 0000-0001-8396-1357)
Imourana Alassane-Kpembi, Université de Montréal, Faculté de Médecine vétérinaire, Canada (ORCID 0000-0003-0718-2655)
Lei Bao, Nestle Food Safety Institute, China Section, China P.R.
Catherine Bessy, FAO, Food Safety and Codex Unit, Italy
Sofia N. Chulze, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Argentina (ORCID 0000-0002-8818-1103)
Sarah De Saeger, Ghent University, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Belgium (ORCID 0000-0002-2160-7253)
Chibundu Ezekiel, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria (ORCID 0000-0002-2113-2948)
Yun Yun Gong, University of Leeds, School of Food Science and Nutrition, UK (ORCID 0000-0003-4927-5526)
Tetsuhisa Goto, Shinshu University, Retired, Japan (ORCID 0000-0002-7315-3070)
Belinda Janse-van Rensburg, ARC-Grain Crops, South Africa (ORCID 0000-0002-5458-2187)
Martin E. Kimanya, The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Tanzania (ORCID 0000-0002-8320-2841)
Robert Kosicki, Kazimierz Wielki University, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Poland (ORCID 0000-0002-7338-6341)
Rudolf Krska, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria (ORCID 0000-0001-6843-9755)
Peiwu Li, Key Lab of Detection & Control for Mycotoxins, Ministry of Agriculture, China P.R.
Carlos A. Mallmann, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brasil (ORCID 0000-0003-2376-2705)
Chris Maragos, USDA-ARS-NCAUR, USA (ORCID 0000-0002-6473-5693)
Limbikani Matumba, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR), Malawi (ORCID 0000-0001-9152-2450)
Gerardo Morantes, Buhler Group, Food Safety-North America, USA
Robert (Bob) Proctor, USDA ARS NCAUR, USA (ORCID 0000-0001-5400-1680)
Michael Rychlik, Technical University München, Germany (ORCID 0000-0002-5826-6288)
Hamide Z. Senyuva, Food Life International Ltd., Turkiye (ORCID 0000-0003-2146-4640)
Milena Stránská-Zachariasova, University of Chemistry and Technology, Czech Republic (ORCID 0000-0002-2958-1529)
Sheryl Tittlemier, Canada Grain Commission, Canada (ORCID 0000-0002-0426-5909)
Olga R. Torres, Laboratorio Diagnóstico Molecular, Guatemala City, Guatemala (ORCID 0000-0002-0069-6904)
Anne van Diepeningen, Plant Research International, the Netherlands (ORCID 0000-0002-6373-8382)
Hans van Egmond, retired from RIKILT Wageningen UR, the Netherlands
Elisabeth Varga, University of Veterinary Medicine, Austria (ORCID 0000-0001-6046-3259)
Carol Verheecke-Vaessen, Cranfield University, UK (ORCID 0000-0003-3470-9803)
Frans Verstraete, European Commission, Belgium
Armando Venâncio, Universidade do Minho, Portugal (ORCID 0000-0002-0723-6134)
Thomas B. Whitaker, US Department of Agriculture, USA
Yueju Zhao, Mars Global Food Safety Center, (ORCID 0000-0001-7083-5984)
Founding Editor
Daniel Barug, Bastiaanse Communication, the Netherlands
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The World Mycotoxin agenda lists conferences, symposia, workshops, courses and other interesting mycotoxicological events over the world. Events are open to (international) attendance and have at least one session dedicated to mycotoxins.
| 2026 | |
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| 1 - 3 June | The 47th Mycotoxin Workshop, Berlin, Germany |
| 2-5 August | 4th African Symposium on Mycotoxicology: MYCOAFRICA: Advancing Mycotoxin Management ensuring Food Security and Safety for One Health, Windhoek, Namibia |
Affiliated and endorsing organisations
World Mycotoxin Journal affiliated with the ISM - International Society for Mycotoxicology and Astox - the Austrian society of Toxicology. The journal is endorsed by the ICC - International Association for Cereal Science and Technology.
Media partners
When your organisation is interested to be a Media Partner to this journal please contact the editorial office.
World Mycotoxin Journal is a Media Partner to WMF meets Salzburg. The conference will be held April 7-9, 2025, Salzburg, Austria.
World Mycotoxin Journal is a Media Partner to the 3rd African Symposium on Mycotoxicology (ASM) joint MYTOX-SOUTH Conference in Stellenbosch, South Africa, September 4-7 2022.
World Mycotoxin Journal is a Media Partner to the WMFmeetsASIA – the 12th Conference of The World Mycotoxin Forum® in Bangkok, Thailand, 13-15 January 2020.
World Mycotoxin Journal is partner to the Nordic-Baltic Fusarium Seminar to be held on April 3-4, 2019 in Esbjerg, Denmark.
World Mycotoxin Journal is a Media Partner to the World Mycotoxin Forum in Belfast, Ireland, 14-16 October 2019.
World Mycotoxin Journal
Journal Impact Factor™
The World Mycotoxin Journal has a Journal Impact Factor™ of 2,2 and the 5 year Journal Impact Factor™ is 2,1. Source: Journal Citation Reports™ from Clarivate, 2025.
CiteScore™
The journal's CiteScore™ is 4.7 (CiteScore™ 2022. Calculated by Scopus, 2023).
Aims and scope
The World Mycotoxin Journal is a peer-reviewed scientific journal with only one specific area of focus: the promotion of the science of mycotoxins. The journal contains original research papers and critical reviews in all areas dealing with mycotoxins and its impact to human and animal health, together with opinions, a calendar of forthcoming mycotoxin-related events and book reviews. The journal takes a multidisciplinary approach, and it focuses on a broad spectrum of issues, including human and animal toxicology, risk assessment, worldwide occurrence, modelling and prediction of toxin formation, genomics, molecular biology for control of mycotoxigenic fungi, pre-and post-harvest prevention and control, analytical methodology and sampling, analytical methodology and quality assurance, food technology, economics and regulatory issues. The World Mycotoxin Journal is intended to serve the needs of researchers and professionals from the scientific community and industry, as well as of policy makers and regulators.
Topics dealt by the World Mycotoxin Journal are:
- Human and animal nutrition and health effects, including cases of mycotoxicosis
- Latest discoveries in mycotoxin toxicology and toxicokinetics
- Trends in modelling and prediction of mycotoxin formation
- The latest information on major mycotoxins and emerging problems in the food and feed chain
- Strategies for pre- and postharvest prevention and control
- International developments and regulatory issues
- The economic impact of mycotoxins
- Application of genomics in mycotoxin research
- Molecular biology for control of mycotoxigenic fungi
- Decontamination and detoxification solutions
- New developments in mycotoxin sampling analysis and analytical quality assurance, including reference materials
- Worldwide cases of occurrence and exposure to mycotoxins (papers dealing with locally purchased commodities are usually not published)
Editorial statement
Mycotoxin-caused diseases (mycotoxicoses) have been recognised for a long time. History is replete with evidence of mycotoxin-associated poisoning incidents, such as ergot-induced 'Holy fire' in the Middle Ages and trichothecene-caused 'Alimentary Toxic Aleukia' in Russia in World War II. Despite these examples, mycotoxicoses remained 'neglected diseases', until 1960 when 'Turkey X disease' broke out in Great Britain. More than 100,000 turkeys died due to aflatoxins in the feed. In the following period much information has become known about aflatoxins and many other mould-produced toxins have been discovered. Multidisciplinary in-depth research targeted on developing knowledge about many aspects of mycotoxins, have resulted in tens of thousands of publications, several dozens of relevant books and dedicated workshops and conferences. It has become evident that probably no edible substance can be regarded as absolutely free from possible mycotoxin contamination, considering that mycotoxin production can occur in the field, during harvest, processing, storage and shipment of a given commodity. It has become clear that mycotoxins have profound effects on human and animal health, as well as on food security.
The contents of the World Mycotoxin Journal witnesses the continuous and intensive interest of the scientific community for the multi-faceted subject area of mycotoxins, and of the many activities that take place, e.g. those undertaken by international organisations and within thematic interlaboratory research and networking projects. The journal aims to bring together those active in various disciplines and to offer a platform for the publication of scientific work on mycotoxins, and for the discussion and debate of its contents. It has the ambition of strengthening the networks of mycotoxin experts and of contributing significantly to the combat of these silent threats to human and animal health. The World Mycotoxin Journal has the ambition to be the most up-to-date international journal for those who need to be informed of the latest and most important developments in the field.
The World Mycotoxin Journal has a Journal Impact Factor™ of 2,2 and the 5 year Journal Impact Factor™ is 2,1. Source: Journal Citation Reports™ from Clarivate, 2025.
CiteScore™
The journal's CiteScore™ is 4.7 (CiteScore™ 2022. Calculated by Scopus, 2023).
Aims and scope
The World Mycotoxin Journal is a peer-reviewed scientific journal with only one specific area of focus: the promotion of the science of mycotoxins. The journal contains original research papers and critical reviews in all areas dealing with mycotoxins and its impact to human and animal health, together with opinions, a calendar of forthcoming mycotoxin-related events and book reviews. The journal takes a multidisciplinary approach, and it focuses on a broad spectrum of issues, including human and animal toxicology, risk assessment, worldwide occurrence, modelling and prediction of toxin formation, genomics, molecular biology for control of mycotoxigenic fungi, pre-and post-harvest prevention and control, analytical methodology and sampling, analytical methodology and quality assurance, food technology, economics and regulatory issues. The World Mycotoxin Journal is intended to serve the needs of researchers and professionals from the scientific community and industry, as well as of policy makers and regulators.
Topics dealt by the World Mycotoxin Journal are:
- Human and animal nutrition and health effects, including cases of mycotoxicosis
- Latest discoveries in mycotoxin toxicology and toxicokinetics
- Trends in modelling and prediction of mycotoxin formation
- The latest information on major mycotoxins and emerging problems in the food and feed chain
- Strategies for pre- and postharvest prevention and control
- International developments and regulatory issues
- The economic impact of mycotoxins
- Application of genomics in mycotoxin research
- Molecular biology for control of mycotoxigenic fungi
- Decontamination and detoxification solutions
- New developments in mycotoxin sampling analysis and analytical quality assurance, including reference materials
- Worldwide cases of occurrence and exposure to mycotoxins (papers dealing with locally purchased commodities are usually not published)
Editorial statement
Mycotoxin-caused diseases (mycotoxicoses) have been recognised for a long time. History is replete with evidence of mycotoxin-associated poisoning incidents, such as ergot-induced 'Holy fire' in the Middle Ages and trichothecene-caused 'Alimentary Toxic Aleukia' in Russia in World War II. Despite these examples, mycotoxicoses remained 'neglected diseases', until 1960 when 'Turkey X disease' broke out in Great Britain. More than 100,000 turkeys died due to aflatoxins in the feed. In the following period much information has become known about aflatoxins and many other mould-produced toxins have been discovered. Multidisciplinary in-depth research targeted on developing knowledge about many aspects of mycotoxins, have resulted in tens of thousands of publications, several dozens of relevant books and dedicated workshops and conferences. It has become evident that probably no edible substance can be regarded as absolutely free from possible mycotoxin contamination, considering that mycotoxin production can occur in the field, during harvest, processing, storage and shipment of a given commodity. It has become clear that mycotoxins have profound effects on human and animal health, as well as on food security.
The contents of the World Mycotoxin Journal witnesses the continuous and intensive interest of the scientific community for the multi-faceted subject area of mycotoxins, and of the many activities that take place, e.g. those undertaken by international organisations and within thematic interlaboratory research and networking projects. The journal aims to bring together those active in various disciplines and to offer a platform for the publication of scientific work on mycotoxins, and for the discussion and debate of its contents. It has the ambition of strengthening the networks of mycotoxin experts and of contributing significantly to the combat of these silent threats to human and animal health. The World Mycotoxin Journal has the ambition to be the most up-to-date international journal for those who need to be informed of the latest and most important developments in the field.
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