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Ethology

Official Organ of the Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V.

Edited by:
Michael Taborsky (Editor-in-Chief)

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 30/45 (Behavioral Science); 21/114 (Zoology)
Impact Factor: 1.902

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The journal publishes original contributions from all branches of behavioural research on all species of animals, both in the field and lab. It contains scientific articles of general interest in English that are based on a theoretical framework. A section on "Current issues - perspectives and reviews" is included as well as theoretical investigations, essays on controversial topics and reviews of notable books.

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Online Manuscript Submission Available
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Articles which have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed are published online through our Early View feature before the print edition of this journal is published.

 

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Recent Press Releases
Click on the articles below to read some of the latest press releases detailing research published in Ethology:

The best both of worlds - how to have sex and survive

Male House Fly's Answer to Female Infidelity

Beautiful flowers may hold nasty surprises

Exposure to stress at the fetal stage can make offspring more anxious later in life

Gone but not forgotten - The persistence of anti-predator behavior

Armpit odour can exude womens fertility

Highly accessed papers
The following three papers were the most accessed articles within Ethology by Blackwell Synergy users in 2005. Click on each link to view the Abstracts. If you do not have a subscription to the journal you can purchase single articles by clicking the Buy Now option within Synergy.

Evolution of Classical Polyandry: Three Steps to Female Emancipation
Malte Andersson

Environmental Predictors of Geographic Variation in Human Mating Preferences
Kevin J.  McGraw

Immediate and Delayed Benefits of Play Behaviour: New Evidence from Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
E. Palagi, G. Cordoni, S. M. Borgognini Tarli

Highly cited papers
The following three papers were the most highly cited articles in 2003 published in Ethology. Click on each link to view the Abstracts. If you do not have a subscription to the journal you can purchase single articles by clicking the Buy Now option within Synergy.

Toward a new sexual selection paradigm: Polyandry, conflict and incompatibility (Invited article)
Zeh JA, Zeh DW

Social change affects vocal structure in a callitrichid primate (Callithrix kuhlii)
Rukstalis M, Fite JE, French JA

Population differentiation in a complex bird sound: A comparison of three bioacoustical analysis procedures
Baker MC, Logue DM

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