Physiology & Behavior is a scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 published by Elsevier

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. It is an official journal of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society

International Behavioral Neuroscience Society

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. The journal publishes peer-reviewed

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 articles in the fields of behavioral neuroendocrinology

Neuroendocrinology

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, psychoneuroimmunology

Psychoneuroimmunology

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, learning and memory, ingestion, social behavior

Social behavior

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, and studies related to the mechanisms of psychopathology

Psychopathology

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. It was established in 1966.

Abstracting and indexing

Physiology and Behavior is abstracted and indexed in BIOSIS, Chemical Abstracts

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, Current Contents

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/Life Sciences, MEDLINE

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, PsycINFO

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, Science Citation Index

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, Scopus

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, and PubMed

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. According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2010 impact factor

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 of 2.891.

Article categories

The journal publishes articles in the following categories:

• Research articles
  Empirical
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• Review
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• Short Communications
• Theoretical Articles
• Book review
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