ALTEX
Discipline | Alternatives to animal testing |
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Language | English |
Edited by | Sonja von Aulock |
Publication details | |
Former name(s) | Alternativen zu Tierexperimenten |
History | 1984-present |
Publisher | |
Frequency | Quarterly |
Yes | |
License | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
6.183 (2018) | |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | ALTEX |
Indexing | |
ISSN | 1868-596X (print) 1868-8551 (web) |
OCLC no. | 690935010 |
ALTEX: Alternativen zu Tierexperimenten: | |
ISSN | 0946-7785 |
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ALTEX: Alternatives to Animal Experimentation is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering alternatives to animal experimentation and related issues of bioethics, seeking to promote the replacement, reduction, and refinement of animal use in research (the "3Rs").[1][2] It was originally published in German and established in 1984 as ALTEX: Alternativen zu Tierexperimenten and is published by Springer Spektrum on behalf of the Swiss Society ALTEX Edition.[1][3]
It is the official journal of Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, the , the European consensus platform for alternatives, the , and the transatlantic think tank for toxicology.[1] It has been an open access journal since 2011 under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.[1]
The journal has two companion publications: ALTEX Proceedings (ISSN 2194-0479), which publishes proceedings of scientific conferences relating to the 3Rs, and TIERethik, a biannual German-language periodical on bioethics and human-animal studies.[4]
Abstracting and indexing[]
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed,[5] Science Citation Index Expanded,[6] Scopus,[7] and Embase.[8] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 5.232, ranking it 16th out of 133 journals in the category "Medicine, Research and Experimental".[9]
References[]
- ^ a b c d "About ALTEX". Homepage. Altex. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ^ von Aulock, S. (2014). "Editorial: 30th anniversary of ALTEX" (PDF). ALTEX. 31 (4): U2. PMID 25538978. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ^ "ALTEX". Springer Spektrum. 2010. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ^ "Altex". Altex. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ^ "ALTEX". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ^ "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ^ "Content overview". Scopus. Elsevier. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ^ "Embase Coverage". Embase. Elsevier. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Medicine Research and Experimental". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2018.
External links[]
- Alternatives to animal testing
- Animal ethics journals
- Bioethics journals
- Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals
- Biology journals
- Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
- Publications established in 1984
- English-language journals
- Quarterly journals