''Ethology'' is a monthly

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published by

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. The journal is associated with the and the current

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is Wolfgang Goymann ( Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence). Previous

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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

animal Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the Biology, biological Kingdom (biology), kingdom Animalia (). With few exceptions, animals heterotroph, consume organic material, Cellular respiration#Aerobic respiration, breathe oxygen, ...

behaviour Behavior (American English) or behaviour (British English) is the range of actions of Individual, individuals, organisms, systems or Artificial intelligence, artificial entities in some environment. These systems can include other systems or or ...

Konrad Lorenz Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (Austrian ; 7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoology, zoologist, ethology, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von ...

, 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). 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 WEIRD framework in

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, 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

Tinbergen's four questions Tinbergen's four questions, named after 20th century biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen, are complementary categories of explanations for animal behaviour. These are commonly called levels of analysis. It suggests that an integrative understanding of beh ...

, 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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, and the

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. According to the

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, 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".

References

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