Genes, Brain and Behavior (also known as G2B)[2] is published by Wiley on behalf of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society.[3] Volume 1 appeared in 2002 and issues appeared quarterly. As submissions increased, the journal switched in 2003 to a bimonthly schedule,[3] in 2006 to 8-times-a-year, and going back to bimonthly in 2023.[4] Review time from submission to first editorial decision is just a month with a "remarkably fast 2 days from acceptance of a paper to on-line publication."[2] Content is available online for free from the Wiley Online Library.[4] The journal was originally published in both print and electronic versions, but since 2014 the journal is online-only.[5] Publication costs are covered through article publication charges paid by authors or their institutions (Gold open access).[5]
In its third year, Genes, Brain and Behavior was available in 1400 academic libraries.[3] In 2024, Douglas Wahlsten wrote that the contents of the journal are "thoroughly modern", not suffering from the genetic determinism that "infected" many earlier behavior-genetics publications.[1]
The journal has developed standards for the publication of mouse mutant studies.[8] Many mouse mutant studies have serious methodological problems leading to fatally flawed scientific conclusions,[9] causing a waste of time, effort, and research resources, and leading to ethical problems because of the unnecessary use of live animals for flawed studies.[8] These standards are gradually being accepted more widely in the field.[10][11]
Abstracting and indexing
Genes, Brain and Behavior is abstracted and indexed in:
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