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Overview
Journal of Ethology features reviews and original papers relating to all aspects of animal behavior, including traditional ethology.
- Official journal of the Japan Ethological Society.
- Publishes papers on field, laboratory, and theoretical studies.
- Offers both purely descriptive studies with broad implications and quantitative studies.
- Presents Editor’s choice articles in a concise video format on its dedicated YouTube channel.
- Chief Editor
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- Takeshi Takegaki
- Impact factor
- 0.9 (2022)
- 5 year impact factor
- 1.2 (2022)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 9 days
- Downloads
- 149,163 (2023)
Societies and partnerships
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Latest articles
Journal updates
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Japan Ethological Society
The Journal of Ethology is the official journal of the Japan Ethological Society, which was founded in 1982.
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Editor's Choice Award - Enjoy free reading!
Editor's Choice articles are selected each year and given open access. Some of the Editor's Choice articles are introduced by short movies at Journal of Ethology official YouTube channel.
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Permission requests
Guide for authors who wish to re-use figures, tables or excerpts from Journal of Ethology articles.
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1439-5444
- Print ISSN
- 0289-0771
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- AGRICOLA
- BFI List
- BIOSIS
- Baidu
- Biological Abstracts
- CAB Abstracts
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EMBiology
- Google Scholar
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Meta
- Naver
- Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Zoological Record
- Copyright information