Academic Journal

Behaviour

Brill Academic Publishers

NetherlandsAnimal Science and Zoology (Q2); Behavioral Neuroscience (Q4)ISSN-matched source record

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Q2Ranking

—Impact Factor (year unverified)

91H-index (SCImago 2025)

0.371SJR (2025)

1948, 1950-1951, 1953-2026Coverage

About Behaviour

Behaviour is a scholarly journal published by Brill Academic Publishers. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q2, with an SJR of 0.371 and H-index of 91.

Coverage: 1948, 1950-1951, 1953-2026. Research categories: Animal Science and Zoology (Q2); Behavioral Neuroscience (Q4).

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ISSN(s)0005-7959, 1568-539X

ISSN-L0005-7959

Source typeJournal

Publisher / hosting organisationBrill

Publisher country codeNL

Fully open access (OpenAlex)Not marked as fully open access; hybrid options may exist

DOAJ flag (OpenAlex)Not listed in OpenAlex metadata; this is not a direct DOAJ check

Works recorded in OpenAlex4,413

Citations recorded in OpenAlex215,848

OpenAlex H-index170

Years represented in OpenAlex1948–2026 (not the founding or closing dates)

Topics in published research

Animal Behavior and Reproduction; Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior; Plant and animal studies; Primate Behavior and Ecology; Avian ecology and behavior; Amphibian and Reptile Biology.

OpenAlex classifies topics from published works. These topics are not the publisher’s official aims and scope.

Source: OpenAlex source record. Retrieved 2026-10-03. Source record updated 2026-10-02. OpenAlex metrics are different from SCImago metrics and the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor.

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Nursing behaviour in the franciscana dolphin (Pontoporia blainvillei blainvillei) off Ilhabela Archipelago, Brazil: implications for conservation and calf rehabilitation

The effects of high temperatures on behaviour in juvenile great tits (Parus major)

The science of the unusual: how rare observations reveal the diversity of animal behaviour

The bladder grasshopper chorus: drivers of acoustic niche partitioning in Southern Africa’s Pneumoridae

Nest architecture as an overlooked material culture: what deconstruction of orangutan nests reveals and the case for systematic study across nest-building primates

The social face hypothesis: facial expressive capacity is associated with brain and social network size

Competitive dynamics at anthropogenic food sources: intra- and inter-specific interactions between Hooded Vultures and Marabou Storks

Voluntary wheel use across animal taxa: motivation, enrichment, stereotypy and ethological interpretation

Kinship, distance and reciprocity underpin economic support in the Pantanal wetland

Mating and fighting in broad moonlight: evidence for male aggregations in wild Anderson’s gerbil (Gerbillus andersoni)

Inseparable threads: the evolutionary roots of social connection

Affiliative ultrasonic calls of Brandt’s voles Lasiopodomys brandtii in the wild are identical to those produced in captive social groups

Systematic review of maternal stress in rodents: are we covering the whole picture?

Analytical sensitivity in the study of rapid facial mimicry: evidence from orangutan play

Mortuary behaviour or cannibalistic scavenging in Indian crested porcupine (Hystrix indica)?

Risk-taking as a reproductive strategy: the costs and benefits of territory abandonment in the Yucatan pupfish (Cyprinodon artifrons)

Acoustic traits of ultrasonic calls in adult and infant domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

Evidence of bait fishing in the yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis)

Post-weaning conflict in the greater false vampire bat, Lyroderma lyra

Do birds enjoy flying? An analysis of affect after flight in galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)

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