''Genes, Brain and Behavior'' (also known as ''G2B'') is a bimonthly

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covering research in the fields of

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, and

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. It is published by Wiley on behalf of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society. The journal was established in 2002 as a quarterly and is currently published bimonthly. In 2024, Douglas Wahlsten wrote that the contents of the journal are "thoroughly modern", not suffering from the genetic determinism that "infected" many earlier behavior-genetics publications.

Overview and history

''Genes, Brain and Behavior'' (also known as ''G2B'') is published by Wiley on behalf of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society. Volume 1 appeared in 2002 and issues appeared quarterly. As submissions increased, the journal switched in 2003 to a bimonthly schedule, in 2006 to 8-times-a-year, and going back to bimonthly in 2023. Review time from submission to first editorial decision is just a month with a "remarkably fast 2 days from acceptance of a paper to on-line publication." Content is available online for free from the

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. The journal was originally published in both print and electronic versions, but since 2014 the journal is online-only. Publication costs are covered through article publication charges paid by authors or their institutions (

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). The founding

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was

Wim Crusio Wim E. Crusio (born Wilhelmus Elisabeth Crusio on 20 December 1954) is a Dutch behavioral neurogeneticist and a '' directeur de recherche'' (research director) with the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Talence, France. Educ ...

(

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), who was succeeded in 2012 by Andrew Holmes (

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Reception

In its third year, ''Genes, Brain and Behavior'' was available in 1400 academic libraries. In 2024, Douglas Wahlsten wrote that the contents of the journal are "thoroughly modern", not suffering from the genetic determinism that "infected" many earlier behavior-genetics publications. According to the ''

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,'' its 2023

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is 2.4, ranking the journal 195th out of 310 journals in the category "Neurosciences" and 24th out of 55 journals in the category "Behavioral Sciences". The five journals that have cited ''Genes, Brain and Behavior'' most often, are (in order of descending citation frequency) ''

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, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews,'' and '' Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience''. , the five journals that have been cited most frequently by articles published in ''Genes, Brain and Behavior'' are '' Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, Molecular Psychiatry,

Nature Genetics ''Nature Genetics'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio. It was established in 1992. It covers research in genetics. The chief editor is Tiago Faial. The journal encompasses genetic and functional genomic studies ...

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, '' and ''

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''. The journal has developed standards for the publication of mouse mutant studies. Many mouse mutant studies have serious methodological problems leading to fatally flawed scientific conclusions, causing a waste of time, effort, and research resources, and leading to ethical problems because of the unnecessary use of live animals for flawed studies. These standards are gradually being accepted more widely in the field.

Abstracting and indexing

''Genes, Brain and Behavior'' is abstracted and indexed in:

Most cited articles

According to the

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, the following three articles have been cited most often (>600 times): # # #

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