BiomedicalPublications

ALTEX

Springer Nature·Germany·ISSN 0946-7785

Open accessIn DOAJFee waivers availableVeterinary

ALTEX is published by Springer Nature as an open access journal (ISSN 0946-7785). The list article processing charge is $2,157. Typical time to publication is 18 wks. Its OpenAlex h-index is 77. Primary field: Veterinary. It is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Fee waivers are stated as available. Figures on this page are sourced from OpenAlex and DOAJ and should be confirmed on the journal’s own site before submission.

Cost to publish

$2,157

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

Checked · Journal fee page

Time to publication

18 wks

Broadly typical for the field.

h-index

77

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

2.0

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in ALTEX is listed at $2,157. The publisher also lists 2,000 EUR. The journal reports that fee waivers are available — worth pursuing if you are funding this yourself or working from a lower-income country.

The journal's own fee page →

Peer review and licensing

Review modelAnonymous peer review, Double anonymous peer review (policy)
LicenceCC BY
Author keeps copyrightYes
Plagiarism screeningYes
Editorial boardPublished →
LanguagesEN

Verification checks

7 of 8 confirmed

These are facts we could verify in public records, not a verdict. A journal missing a check is not necessarily disreputable — many long-established subscription journals sit outside the open-access registries entirely. Use them as questions to ask, and confirm anything that matters directly with the journal before you submit.

  • Listed in the Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ applies a documented set of inclusion criteria.
  • Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.
  • Peer review model publicly declaredAnonymous peer review, Double anonymous peer review
  • Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.
  • Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.
  • Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.
  • Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.
  • Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2026.

Scope

The subjects ALTEX publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Animal testing and alternativesComputational Drug Discovery MethodsEffects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals3D Printing in Biomedical ResearchContact Dermatitis and AllergiesAgricultural safety and regulationsPluripotent Stem Cells ResearchCarcinogens and Genotoxicity AssessmentEnvironmental Toxicology and EcotoxicologyImmunotoxicology and immune responses

Publication record

Indexed articles1,242
Total citations24,848
i10-index463
Most recent indexed article2026
Open access since2011
All ISSNs0946-7785, 1868-596X, 1868-8551

Counts reflect what OpenAlex has indexed and will differ from the publisher's own figures. We do not show a founding year: OpenAlex's first-publication dates are distorted by mis-dated records — it puts PLoS ONE in 1806 — and we would rather omit a number than print one we cannot stand behind.