''Ethology: International Journal of Behavioural Biology'' is a monthly peer-reviewed

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published by John Wiley & Sons. The journal is associated with th
Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V.
and the current editor-in-chief is Wolfgang Goymann (

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). Previous editors-in-chief of ''Ethology'' were Wolfgang Wickler, Michael Taborsky and Jutta Schneider with Susan Foster.

History

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Tierpsychologie (i.e. German Society for Animal Psychology) founded the journal in 1937 as one of the first journals in the world, focusing on

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. Konrad Lorenz,

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and Carl Kronacher were the first editors of this journal, which was first named ''Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie'' (i.e. Journal of Comparative Ethology). In 1986, the journal was renamed "''Ethology''" with the subtitle ''International Journal of Behavioral Biology''. In 2021, ''Ethology'' was the first behavioural journal to adopt the STRANGE framework, similar to the

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framework in Psychology, to account for sampling bias. In the same year, it became mandatory for authors to deposit the original data in a public data repository.

Scope

The journal covers all of

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, including ultimate (current utility, evolution) and proximate (mechanisms, ontogeny) aspects of Behavioural Biology. Apart from regular Research Articles, it features Perspectives & Reviews, Species-in-the-Spotlight articles, Behavioural Notes, Commentaries and articles focusing on Ethological Methods.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed, for instance, in

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, Scopus, and the Science Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020

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of 1.897, ranking it 46th out of 53 journals in the category "Behavioral Sciences" and 62nd out of 175 in the category "Zoology".

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