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Animal Behaviour (journal)

Animal Behaviour is a double-blind peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1953 as The British Journal of Animal Behaviour, before obtaining its current title in 1958. It is published monthly by Elsevier for the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour in collaboration with the Animal Behavior Society. It covers all aspects of ethology, including behavioural ecology, evolution of behaviour, sociobiology, ethology, behavioural physiology, population biology, and navigation and migration.

Last revised
Jun 13, 2026
Read time
≈ 1 min
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Citations
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Source
Animal Behaviour
DisciplineEthology
LanguageEnglish
Edited byL. Barrett, W.A. Searcy
Publication details
Former name
The British Journal of Animal Behaviour
History1953–present
Publisher
2.844 (2020)
Standard abbreviations
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ISO 4Anim. Behav.
Indexing
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MIAR · NLM (alt· Scopus · W&L
CODENANBEA8
ISSN0003-3472 (print)
1095-8282 (web)
LCCN56002267
OCLC no.04699737
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Animal Behaviour is a double-blind peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1953 as The British Journal of Animal Behaviour, before obtaining its current title in 1958. It is published monthly by Elsevier for the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour in collaboration with the Animal Behavior Society. It covers all aspects of ethology, including behavioural ecology, evolution of behaviour, sociobiology, ethology, behavioural physiology, population biology, and navigation and migration.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in EMBiology, Scopus, and the Science Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.844.1

References

References

  1. "Animal Behaviour". 2020 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2021.
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