A well-established journal in the field of behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, Behavioral and Brain Functions welcomes manuscripts which provide insight into the neurobiological mechanisms underlying behavior and brain function, or dysfunction. The journal gives priority to manuscripts that combine both neurobiology and behavior in a non-clinical manner.
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Open-access publishing is not without costs. Behavioral and Brain Functions therefore levies an article-processing charge of £1990.00/$2890.00/€2390.00 for each article accepted for publication, plus VAT or local taxes where applicable. The APC is determined at the date of acceptance.
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Behavioral and Brain Functions has an Impact Factor of 5.1 (2022) .
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Behavioral and Brain Functions operates a single-blind peer-review system, where the reviewers are aware of the names and affiliations of the authors, but the reviewer reports provided to authors are anonymous. The benefits of single-blind peer review is that it is the traditional model of peer review that many reviewers are comfortable with, and it facilitates a dispassionate critique of a manuscript.
Submitted manuscripts will generally be reviewed by two or more experts who will be asked to evaluate whether the manuscript is scientifically sound and coherent, whether it duplicates already published work, and whether or not the manuscript is sufficiently clear for publication. The Editors will reach a decision based on these reports and, where necessary, they will consult with members of the Editorial Board.
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Articles in Behavioral and Brain Functions should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number.
Article citations follow this format:
Authors: Title. Behav Brain Funct [year], [volume number]:[article number].
e.g. Roberts LD, Hassall DG, Winegar DA, Haselden JN, Nicholls AW, Griffin JL: Increased hepatic oxidative metabolism distinguishes the action of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor delta from Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma in the Ob/Ob mouse. Behav Brain Funct 2009, 1:115.
refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal.
Behavioral and Brain Functions's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience.
Behavioral and Brain Functions offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF.
Online publication in Behavioral and Brain Functions gives you the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles).
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2022 Citation Impact
5.1 - 2-year Impact Factor
4.1 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.265 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
1.017 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)
2022 Speed
14 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
222 days submission to accept (Median)
2022 Usage
389,657 downloads
1,426 Altmetric mentions