Animal Welfare (journal)

Animal Welfare

Discipline	Animal welfare
Language	English
Edited by	James Kirkwood
Publication details
History	1992–present
Publisher	Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (England)
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	1.433 (2012)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Anim. Welf.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	ANWEEF
ISSN	0962-7286
LCCN	sn92015504
OCLC no.	796012610
Links
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Animal Welfare is a quarterly, peer-reviewed scientific journal covering studies on the welfare of animals, whether in captivity (e.g. on farms, in laboratories, zoos and as companions) or in the wild. Its scope includes animal welfare science, animal cognition, ethology, behavioural ecology, evolution of behaviour, sociobiology, behavioural physiology, population biology, neurophysiology and abnormal behaviour. It was established in 1992 and is published by the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare. The editor-in-chief is James K. Kirkwood (Universities Federation for Animal Welfare).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Science Citation Index
• Biological Abstracts
• BIOSIS Previews
• CAB Abstracts
• Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Sciences
• Current Primate References
• EMBASE
• Toxicology Abstracts
• Veterinary Update
• The Zoological Record

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 1.433.^[1]

References

1. "Animal Welfare". 2012 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2013.

External links

• Official website