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Animal Behaviour is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Academic Press.
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ISSN 0003-3472Verify ISSN ↗1095-8282Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academic Press
Cost to publish: About US$2,740 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 121 / 520 | 76th | Q1 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 228 / 736 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1958–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.6.
Animal Behaviour is Q1 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 121 of 520) and Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 228 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Animal Behaviour is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 3.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.849, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 202.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,740 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Animal Behaviour is published by Academic Press. Its print ISSN is 0003-3472 and its online ISSN is 1095-8282.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Animal Behaviour has an h-index of 301 and a 2-year mean of 2.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #93 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Animal Behaviour published 332 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 337. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 82 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (20.6%), United Kingdom (10.1%) and Germany (7.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 10 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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