Academic Journal
Q2Animal Sentience
About Animal Sentience
Animal Sentience is a scholarly journal published by WellBeing International. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q2, with an SJR of 0.302 and H-index of 15.
Coverage: 2016-2025. Research categories: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (Q2); Neuroscience (miscellaneous) (Q4).
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Topics in published research
Human-Animal Interaction Studies; Animal and Plant Science Education; Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment; Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies; Cephalopods and Marine Biology; Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior.
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Could 'real existing AI' be sentient?
Tim Crane
2026-10-02 · DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1959Artificial Sentience: From Computational Functionalism to Behaviourism?
Wanja Wiese
2026-10-02 · DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1957Birch on fetal sentience
Claudia Passos-Ferreira
2026-09-22 · DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1953Navigating the edge of sentience without a scientific meta-consensus
Daniel West
2026-08-29 · DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1951From insect cognition to sentience: Exploring the edge
Catherine Macri, Martin Giurfa
2026-08-28 · DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1949The varieties of precaution: Which risks, Whose attitudes?
Tomasz Żuradzki
2026-08-26 · DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1948Beyond better conditions: Seaweed farming and the number of sentient animals in aquaculture
Shrilaxmi Patil, Matthew Unerman, Wasseem Emam
2026-08-24 · DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1946Why do we need to prove that pigs feel?
Aranza Vera-Espinoza, Nancy Harlet Esquivel-Marín
2026-08-07 · DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1943Self-maintenance and the evidence for artificial sentience
Mads J. Hansen, Christoffer Lundbak Olesen
2026-08-05 · DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1942What does sentience mean at the neural level?
Björn Brembs
2026-07-30 · DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1944AI is not the kind of thing that can ever be sentient
Lori Marino
2026-07-19 · DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1940Look out for our kind
Christof Koch
2026-07-19 · DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1941Walking the Tightrope: The Precautionary Dilemma of Neutrality and Guidance
Farhan Lakhany
2026-06-27 · DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1921Dimensional welfare beyond pain: Extending the precautionary principle in Birch’s “The Edge of Sentience”
Willa M Lane, Nicola S Clayton
2026-06-26 · DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1937Animal ethics and the lowest common denominator
John O Adenitire
2026-06-25 · DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1935On the edge of science?
Mark Briffa, Lynne U Sneddon
2026-06-24 · DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1936From the edge to the grounds of “sentientism”
David DeGrazia
2026-06-20 · DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1934Natural behavior vs. subjective experience in fish welfare assessments
Ronald G Oldfield
2026-06-19 · DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1926Aggression and fish welfare: challenges and opportunities
Christine M Soper, Peter D Dijkstra
2026-04-23 · DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1912Artificial Sentience: The other side of the story
Amanda Sharkey
2026-03-04 · DOI: 10.51291/2377-7478.1913Reviews
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