Ethology

Ethology page – cover page of the Ethology April 2019 issue, depicting a bee-eater feeding on an insect


We are associated with Ethology – International Journal of Behavioural Biology
Established in 1937 and one of the first Behavioural Biology journals in the world

  • Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Wolfgang Goymann
  • As part of our close association, Wiley has donated the Ethological Society’s Tinbergen Award for several years
  • Publishes leading articles in all fields of Animal and Human Behaviour
  • Featuring Regular Articles, Perspectives & Reviews, Species-in-the-Spotlight, Behavioural Notes, Commentaries and Methods Articles
  • Offers extra feedback from editors for student submitters
  • Short decision times: median time from submission to first decision is 29 days
  • Open access for submissions from Austria, Germany, Hungary, The Netherlands, Norway, and other countries to join as well
  • First Behavioural Biology journal to adopt the STRANGE framework to account for sampling bias
  • Arguably the journal with the most appealing of all covers –  an issue could feature your study animal
  • ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2020: 62/175 (Zoology); 46/53 (Behavioural Sciences)