Focus and Scope

Pet Behaviour Science publishes original papers relating to all aspects of the behaviour of pets, including their relationships with humans.

This is an international and multidisciplinary open access journal. As multidisciplinary, papers are welcome from the arts and humanities, behavioural and biological sciences, cognitive science, social sciences, and the health sciences.

Topics covered include (but are not limited to):

• Animal-Assisted Interventions (AAI), in all their variations, are research focused on the non-human animal involved

• Behavioural genetics

• Behavioural psychology

• Behavioural physiology

• Cognition

• Communication

• Cooperation

• Ethology

• Evolution of behaviour

• Human animal relationship and/or their consequences in each other

• Methodology

• Ontogeny

• Problem solving

• Pet management and welfare

• Sensory and perceptual processes

• Social behaviour

• Social cognition

• Sociobiology

The main subjects are dogs, cats, horses and rabbits, as well as any other species of animal that is cared for as a pet or has a relationship with humans. Besides, animals belonging to these species but not currently used as pets, such as working dogs and dogs in laboratories, could be useful in providing results that could be of interest to their conspecifics as pets.

Peer Review Process

Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will be double-blind peer-reviewed by independent, anonymous experts. Pet Behaviour Science has adopted a double-blind peer review process where neither the authors nor the reviewers are aware of each other's identities.

Mutual anonymity is proposed to provide a more objective and potentially less biased assessment of manuscripts, and to help ensure that the process is fair to both junior and established scientists. The introduction of double-blind review aims to maintain our reputation for integrity, fairness and openness to new ideas.

In addition, plagiarism and AI-generated text will be checked during the review process.

There is no charge for the submission, review or publication process.

Publication Frequency

Pet Behaviour Science is published twice a year. However, manuscripts are available as soon as they have passed the peer-review process.

Open Access Policy

This journal and all papers published in it are open access, under a  Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional License.

By 'open access' to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited (Budapest Open Access Initiative BOAI)

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Journal History

Created in 2015 by David J. Menor Campos with the support of University of Cordoba