Behavioral and Brain Functions is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 published by BioMed Central

BioMed Central

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 with Open Access to all content. The journal publishes articles on "all aspects of neurobiology where the unifying theme is behavior

Behavior

Behavior or behaviour refers to the actions and mannerisms made by organisms, systems, or artificial entities in conjunction with its environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the physical environment...

 or behavioral dysfunction

Psychiatry

Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...

". It was established in 2005 with Terje Sagvolden as founding editor-in-chief.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is indexed by PubMed

PubMed

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, Science Citation Index

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, Chemical Abstracts Service

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, and Scopus

Scopus

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. According to the Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

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, it has a 2010 impact factor

Impact factor

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 of 2.305.

Article types

The journal publishes articles in the following categories:

• Research articles
  Empirical
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• Review
  Review
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• Methodology
  Methodology
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   articles
• Hypotheses
  Hypothesis
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• Short reports
• Commentaries
• Study protocols
• Debate articles
• Book review
  Book review
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