''Behavior Genetics'' is a

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published monthly by

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that is covering "research in the inheritance of behavior". It is the official journal of the

Behavior Genetics Association The Behavior Genetics Association (BGA) is a learned society established in 1970 and which promotes research into the connections between heredity and behavior, both human and animal. Its members support education and training in behavior genetic ...

. The journal was established in 1971 with

Steven G. Vandenberg Steven Vandenberg (July 15, 1915 in Den Helder, Netherlands, The Netherlands – August 27, 1992 in Boulder, Colorado, United States) was a Behavioural genetics, behavior geneticist who immigrated to the US after the World War II, Second World War, ...

as its founding

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. The abstracts of the annual meetings are printed in the journal. Each year, the editorial board chooses a particularly meritorious paper in the previous year's volume of the journal for the Fulker Award, acknowledged by "$1000 and a good bottle of wine" as well as a citation made in the journal. This award was created in the honor of

David Fulker David William Fulker (8 March 1937 – 9 July 1998) was a British behavioural geneticist at the University of Colorado's Institute for Behavioral Genetics. Among positions of esteem, he was elected president of the Behavior Genetics Associatio ...

, a past president of the Behavior Genetics Association (1982) and former editor-in-chief of the journal.

Abstracting and indexing

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/Social & Behavioral Sciences'' and ''Life Sciences, EMBASE, PsycINFO,

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''. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 2.805.

References

External links

* Behavioural genetics journals English-language journals Publications established in 1971 Bimonthly journals Springer Science+Business Media academic journals Twin studies {{neuroscience-journal-stub