Overview
acta ethologica is a comprehensive journal devoted to the study of behavior biology of humans and other animals.
- Publishes a wide variety of content including empirical and theoretical research papers, short communications, commentaries, reviews, and book reviews.
- Primarily focuses on the results of field studies.
- Emphasizes studies integrating proximate and ultimate levels in the analysis of behavior.
- Engages with a broad range of topics, from adaptive plasticity of behavior to evolutionary processes and functions of behavior.
- The official journal of ISPA, CRL and the Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE).
- Chief Editor
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- Peter K. McGregor
- Impact factor
- 1.1 (2022)
- 5 year impact factor
- 1.0 (2022)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 38 days
- Downloads
- 75,466 (2023)
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Journal updates
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Impact of global change on social interactions: ecological and fitness implications
The aim of this special issue is to bring together studies investigating changes in behavioural interactions in response to global changes. We are particularly interested in highlighting a broad range of studies in terms of taxa (both invertebrates and vertebrates), the type of environmental changes likely associated with global changes (e.g. climate change, noise pollution, habitat destruction, and species introduction), social systems (from solitary to cooperative species) and geographical range.
The submission deadline for this special issue is 1 September 2022, although early submissions are encouraged. We look forward to receiving your submissions.
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Instructions For Authors Announcement
acta ethologica has changed the Instructions for Authors to incorporate the STRANGE framework to identify, mitigate and report sampling biases in animal behaviour research. Find out more.
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1437-9546
- Print ISSN
- 0873-9749
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- BFI List
- BIOSIS
- Baidu
- Biological Abstracts
- CAB Abstracts
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EMBiology
- Google Scholar
- ICYT
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Meta
- Naver
- Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- PsycINFO
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Zoological Record
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