Behavioral and Brain Functions

Behavioral and Brain Functions is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal published by BioMed Central. It publishes articles on "all aspects of neurobiology where the unifying theme is behavior or behavioral dysfunction".^[1] It was established in 2005 with Terje Sagvolden as founding editor-in-chief.^[2]

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Discipline	Behavioral neuroscience
Language	English
Edited by	Robert Gerlai
Publication details
History	2005–present
Publisher	BioMed Central
Frequency	Continuous
Open access	Yes
License	Creative Commons Attribution
Impact factor	3.3 (2024)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Behav. Brain Funct.
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	BBFEBO
ISSN	1744-9081
LCCN	2005243558
OCLC no.	59722804
Links
Journal homepage Online access

Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been (co-)editor-in-chief:^[3]

• Robert Gerlai (University of Toronto Mississauga, 2024–present)
• Wim Crusio (Université de Bordeaux; 2017–2024)
• Vivienne A. Russell (University of Cape Town; 2011–2017)
• Rosemary Tannock (University of Toronto; 2011–2016)
• Terje Sagvolden (University of Oslo; 2005–2011)

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts^[4]
• Chemical Abstracts Service^[5]
• EBSCO databases^[4]
• Embase^[6]
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed^[7]
• ProQuest databases^[4]
• PsycINFO^[8]
• Science Citation Index Expanded^[9]
• Scopus^[10]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 3.3.^[11]