Discipline | Ethology |
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Language | English |
Edited by | Wolfgang Goymann |
Publication details | |
History | 1937–present |
Publisher | |
Frequency | Monthly |
Yes | |
1.897 (2020) | |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | Ethology |
Indexing | |
ISSN |
0179-1613 (print) 1439-0310 (web) |
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Ethology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by John Wiley & Sons. The journal is associated with the Ethologische Gesellschaft [1] and the current editor-in-chief is Wolfgang Goymann ( Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence). Previous editors-in-chief were Wolfgang Wickler, Michael Taborsky, and Jutta Schneider with Susan Foster. [2]
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Tierpsychologie (i.e. German Society for Animal Psychology) founded the journal in 1937 [3] as one of the first journals in the world, focusing on animal behaviour. [4] Konrad Lorenz, Otto Köhler and Carl Kronacher were the first editors of this journal, which was first named Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie (i.e. Journal of Comparative Ethology). [3] In 1986, the journal was renamed "Ethology" with the subtitle International Journal of Behavioral Biology. [5] In 2021, Ethology was the first behavioural journal to adopt the STRANGE framework, similar to the WEIRD framework in Psychology, to account for sampling bias. [6] In the same year, it became mandatory for authors to deposit the original data in a public data repository. [7]
The journal covers all of Tinbergen's four questions, including ultimate (current utility, evolution) and proximate (mechanisms, ontogeny) aspects of Behavioural Biology. [8] Apart from regular Research Articles, it features Perspectives & Reviews, Species-in-the-Spotlight articles, Behavioural Notes, Commentaries and articles focusing on Ethological Methods. [8]
The journal is abstracted and indexed, for instance, in Academic Search, Scopus, and the Science Citation Index. [8] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.897, ranking it 46th out of 53 journals in the category "Behavioral Sciences" and 62nd out of 175 in the category "Zoology". [8]