Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Genes Brain Behav. Edited by Andrew Holmes Publication history 2002–present | Language English Publisher Wiley-Blackwell | |
Discipline Neuroscience, genetics, behavioral sciences, psychiatry | ||
Genes, Brain and Behavior (also known as G2B) is a peer-reviewed online-only scientific journal covering research in the fields of behavioral, neural, and psychiatric genetics. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society. The journal was established in 2002 as a quarterly and is currently published monthly. G2B is a hybrid open access journal, but all content is available online for free two years after publication.
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Overview and history
Genes, Brain and Behavior is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society. Volume 1 appeared in 2002 and issues appeared quarterly. As submissions increased, the journal switched in 2003 to a bimonthly schedule, in 2006 to 8-times-a-year, and in 2014 to a monthly frequency. Content is available online from the Wiley Online Library or, after a 12-month embargo, from EBSCOhost. Authors can elect to have accepted articles published as open access. All content is available online for free 24 months after publication. The journal was originally published in both print and electronic versions, but since 2014 the journal is online-only.
The founding editor-in-chief was Wim Crusio (French National Centre for Scientific Research), who was succeeded in 2012 by Andrew Holmes (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism).
Reception
In its third year, Genes, Brain and Behavior was available in 1400 academic libraries. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2014 impact factor is 3.661, ranking the journal 80th out of 252 journals in the category "Neurosciences" and 7th out of 51 journals in the category "Behavioral Sciences".
The five journals that as of 2015 have cited Genes, Brain and Behavior most often, are (in order of descending citation frequency) PLoS ONE, Behavioural Brain Research, Genes, Brain and Behavior, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, and Psychopharmacology. As of 2015, the five journals that have been cited most frequently by articles published in Genes, Brain and Behavior are The Journal of Neuroscience, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Genes, Brain and Behavior, and the American Journal of Human Genetics.
The journal has developed standards for the publication of mouse mutant studies. Many mouse mutant studies have serious methodological problems leading to fatally flawed scientific conclusions, 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. These standards are gradually being accepted more widely in the field.
Abstracting and indexing
Genes, Brain and Behavior is abstracted and indexed in:
Most cited articles
According to the Web of Science, the following three articles have been cited most often (>250 times):
- Rubenstein JL, Merzenich MM (2003). "Model of autism: increased ratio of excitation/inhibition in key neural systems". Genes, Brain and Behavior. 2 (5): 255–67. doi:10.1034/j.1601-183X.2003.00037.x. PMID 14606691.
- Moy, SS; Nadler, JJ; Perez, A; Barbaro, RP; Johns, JM; Magnuson, TR; Piven, J; Crawley, JN (2004). "Sociability and preference for social novelty in five inbred strains: An approach to assess autistic-like behavior in mice". Genes, Brain and Behavior. 3 (5): 287–302. doi:10.1111/j.1601-1848.2004.00076.x. PMID 15344922.
- Nadler, JJ; Moy, SS; Dold, G; Trang, D; Simmons, N; Perez, A; Young, NB; Barbaro, RP; Piven, J; Magnuson, TR; Crawley, JN (2004). "Automated apparatus for quantitation of social approach behaviors in mice". Genes, Brain, and Behavior. 3 (5): 303–14. doi:10.1111/j.1601-183X.2004.00071.x. PMID 15344923.