| Discipline | Animal welfare |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Birte Nielsen and Bas Rodenburg |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1992–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Continuous; Gold open access |
| 2.4 (2024) | |
| 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 · W&L | |
| CODEN | ANWEEF |
| ISSN | 0962-7286 |
| LCCN | sn92015504 |
| OCLC no. | 796012610 |
| Links | |
Animal Welfare is a Gold open access,peer-reviewedscientific 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 includesanimal welfare science,animal cognition,ethology,behavioural ecology,evolution of behaviour,sociobiology, behaviouralphysiology,population biology,neurophysiology andabnormal behaviour. It was established in 1992 and is owned by theUniversities Federation for Animal Welfare and published byCambridge University Press. Theeditors-in-chief are Birte L. Nielsen (Universities Federation for Animal Welfare) and Bas Rodenburg (Utrecht University).
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to theJournal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024impact factor of 2.4.[1]
